Posted on November 30, 2009 by Nick
Did you know that the war in Iraq has so far cost fifteen times more than Africa’s entire debt to the West? Or six times more than it would cost to feed and educate every child on the planet for five years? These are the statistics posited by David McCandless’ “Billion-Dollar-O-Gram”, which I found thanks [...]
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Posted on September 7, 2009 by Nick
We had an interesting discussion in the office on Friday. We were editing some video interviews; as part of a project for which we’ve shot several (over 100) different individuals. We decided that one of the interviewees in the batch was a bit useless – but nobody could quite put their finger on why. He [...]
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Posted on July 3, 2009 by Nick
As everyone will have noticed, it’s been a bit hot and sticky recently. This means several things: As Brits, we naturally fall into reminiscing about the good old days, when it just used to rain miserably We notice that it’s more likely to be sunny on weekdays and rain at weekends (this is in fact [...]
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Posted on May 5, 2008 by Nick
As I write, the political landscape has changed. Labour has lost over 300 local government seats, and Ken Livingstone has been ousted as Mayor of London. But the Tories, the key beneficiaries of this sea change, are all too aware that this was not a pro-Tory vote. It was an anti-Gordon Brown vote. For whatever [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by Nick
It’s been an exciting day. Today, I headed up to Leicester’s DeMontfort University, where under the keen eye of Edwina Goodwin, first-year Business student were entering the Fox’s Lair. Yup, it’s a thinly disguised version of TV’s Dragon’s Den, and I was lucky enough to be invited to be one of ten on-duty dragons. Edwina’s [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2008 by Nick
So, this morning I spent some time reading the papers to get an idea of their thoughts on the Budget. What I found most amusing was that many were as interested in Mr Darling’s rather boring personal style and delivery than the actual substance of the Budget itself. Now that might be partly because they [...]
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