Peter Cox’s Blog

This has my vote for the year’s most mordant headline:
Thousands More Dead In Continuing Iraq Victory | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

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So 17.8 million adults in great Britain (pop 60.5m) are so illiterate they can’t manage to read the lyrics to Robbie Williams’ Angels or Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now. That’s getting on for half the adult population.
I would guess that the figures for the US are even more dire.
This isn’t just dreadful news for [...]

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At one point, I was bouncing between NY and London like a possessed shuttlecock (my schedule is somewhat saner now) and I tried virtually every combination of carrier, even at one point experimenting with Icelandair, which involved a stopover in Reykjavík.
I finally settled on United, which isn’t the most glamorous carrier, but it embodies the [...]

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The Friday Project has been much in the news of late. Apart from having a major talent for self-publicity, it’s founders, Paul Carr and Clare Christian, also blog to an astonishing extent (as does their Commercial Director, Scott Pack). I wish they would tell me their secret: how do they find time to [...]

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