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- Appeal of the unfashionable Cotswolds
We once lived in Swindon, of course, which makes anywhere in the world that’s unfashionable - with the possible exception of Luton - look like Monaco.
But I do like the Cotswolds, just up the road from where we used to live, and was entertained to see fellow Scot Harry Ritchie defend them in today’s [...]
- Britain’s most connected civil servant
Hammersley’s signed up with the state broadcaster for his latest escapade, but he’s offering up stuff far groovier than the regular BBC News fare; he’s covering the Turkish elections using an unholy alliance of YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook and del.icio.us. Reports Press Gazette:
“I’ve wanted to do this for 10 years or so and now the [...]
- The 50,000th edition of the Guardian*
From Alan Rusbridger’s piece commemorating the paper’s milestone:
"In our times news is as saleable and merchantable a
commodity as soap … The world is
shrinking. Space is every day being bridged …
Physical boundaries are disappearing; moral boundaries must speedily
follow suit … What a change for the world! What a chance for the
newspaper!"
[It is] such a friendly thing [...]
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