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The New Bad Idea Website

Welcome to the new incarnation of Bad Idea online – here are some of the exciting new features you’ll find on our refreshed website:

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Other | December 1, 2009 6:04PM | No Comments »


Changes at BAD IDEA: Green Rush

Changes at BAD IDEA: Green Rush

The fifth and final section on BAD IDEA’s new site will be Green Rush, looking at what’s being done to make sure our kids can…

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Posted by The Bad Idea Team in Other | October 21, 2009 10:45AM | No Comments »


BAD IDEA: Voting For Change

BAD IDEA: Voting For Change

It’s nearly a year since we at Bad Idea started blogging in earnest, surfing on the swell of stories brought about by the collapse of…

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Posted by The Bad Idea Team in Other | September 23, 2009 2:44PM | 2 Comments »


The BAD IDEA Interview: James Frey

The BAD IDEA Interview: James Frey

James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces, My Friend Leonard and Bright Shiny Morning, is one of the most controversial writers of the noughties.…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Other | March 11, 2009 3:09PM | No Comments »


How Not To Write a Novel: an Interview with Authors Howard Mittlemark and Sandra Newman

How Not To Write A Novel by Howard Mittlemark, 51, and Sandra Newman, 43, is a set of guidelines on what to avoid to give…

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Posted by Jennifer Allan in Other | February 26, 2009 1:14PM | No Comments »


A Closer Look at the New York Post’s Obama ‘Ape Stimulus’ Cartoon


N.B. to see the original cartoon by Sean Delonas, click here.

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Posted by James Nash in Other | February 23, 2009 1:26PM | 3 Comments »


President Obama: Not So Super After All?

I’ll bet it was lots of fun at first. The Obamas look so sweet in that photo of them walking down Pennsylvania

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Posted by John Rapley in Other | February 12, 2009 5:45PM | No Comments »


Gordon Brown ‘Nixonian’ Debate Sparked By Frost/Nixon

Film premiers are usually the arena for dull, self congratulatory speeches and some cinema theory babble.

Not so the Frost/Nixon Q&A premier last night (apart…

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Posted by Becky North in Other | January 23, 2009 2:14PM | 3 Comments »


Obama Speech Scandal: Text Believed to Be Lifted From Obscure Davy Crockett Frontier Translation of Plato

News just through on a suspected plagiarism scandal involving President Obama’s speech writer Jon Favreau. It appears that the inauguration speech for the 44th US…

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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Other | January 21, 2009 1:47PM | 2 Comments »


The Obamas Satisfy America’s Love of Royalty

As if a dam of frigid air burst on the northern border, a bitter cold front has spilled down from Canada and into Washington,

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Posted by John Rapley in Other | January 18, 2009 2:16PM | 3 Comments »


The Richard Dawkins Delusion

Not that I have any objection to atheism becoming a mass-market item (complete with product tie-ins and merchandise web-links). Hey, if all atheists had looked…

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Posted by John Rapley in Other | January 12, 2009 12:44PM | 18 Comments »


Obama, The Totally Buff Saviour Of The Unemployed

Obama, The Totally Buff Saviour Of The Unemployed

Tania Khadder was recently laid off from her job as a TV producer, and started the blog unemploymentality.com with her similarly laid off

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Posted by Tania Khadder in Other | January 12, 2009 10:20AM | 1 Comment »