Peter Cox’s Blog

Why does every BBC radio drama production sound like “The Archers”?

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Flashback to August 2007 - we was warned, folks.  Happy Holidays.

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Paul Krugman makes some good points writing in today’s NYT:

He goes on to say:

Rough times ahead.

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“Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?”
Less is more…

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All the current Valleywag trash talk about Wikipedia chief Jimmy Wales, 41, who dumped his girlfriend with an announcement on the encyclopaedia’s website (girlfriend then sells Wales’ laundry on E-Bay… how very Web 2.0) misses the more important point.
There is serious talk in certain quarters concerning the possible private sale of Wikipedia.  Impossible?  With a [...]

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It was quite simple when I was growing up. We had the local newspaper, the radio (just BBC), and later on, the television with just three channels to chose from. Voila.
Today, this is my current media mix:
Morning
Radio Five – in the bathroom, for the simple reason that it’s the only station I [...]

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It is a shameful testament to the enormous political lobbying power of the American livestock industry that they have connived to get the gray wolf removed from the Endangered Species List.
What is not often understood is that the vast majority of the land - Wyoming, Idaho and Montana plus parts of Utah, [...]

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