Screenshot from Match of The Day. Having just beaten Arsenal, Manchester City fans unfurl a large banner that says, "PANIC ON THE STREETS OF LONDON"
Whoever you support, with one possible exception, this is very funny.
When you refuse to sell a dogmatic process, you risk alienating potential clients who need the reassurance of a template or framework. Good.
Latest newsletter: principles beat process, and stealing from feature writing.
Title by @willsh.bsky.social.
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Photograph of the book BANAL NIGHTMARE by Halle Butler.
I bought this because I heard Jonathan Franzen say it’s the funniest thing he’s read in ages.
I can see why. It’s outrageously funny in places. And utterly vicious, as Zadie Smith says on the cover.
The title is perfect.
A man and woman sit talking to each other in a raised platform in a bookshop. A small audience listens to them.
John Lanchester at the wonderful Portobello Bookshop last night. Very sharp. Very witty.
“The structure of life is tragic. The texture of life is comic.”
Kim Sherwood had done her homework and did a fine job of making him interested and hence animated.
A strange and distressing feeling, expecting Liverpool to have their arses handed to them at Anfield.
Obviously trying to tempt fate to prove me wrong, which is not the most robust or reassuring strategy I’ve ever devised.
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"power should be at the most local possible level"
The article states that the Greens would be the only explicitly English party in Westminster if the Welsh Greens were to become independent.
But this philosophy of local power also makes them the most explicitly democratic party.
"The ability of the artist to sidestep the bully blow of new technology of any age, and to parry such violence with full awareness, is age-old. " Marshall McLuhan
The first national poll putting @greenparty.org.uk in first place (just) is an utterly extraordinary moment in British politics.
Fabulous. Thank you. It reminded me of this thing I wrote 15 years ago. 15 years. Jeez, where does it go?
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I think I know which video you watched. If I do, some of the examples at the end were non-sensical at best.
Thanks. Me too.
Familiarity, patriotism, deviance, colonialism, notoriety, and glorified pack shots.
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The post contains some rejected IRN-BRU ads that never ran. And I discuss what the new IRN-BRU campaign from Lucky Generals has in common with Orangina, Absolut, and Sandeman.
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"I’d regard it as crass and impersonal—because it would be crass and impersonal."
I could have pull-quoted pretty much every sentence of this article.
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The interior of an old-style Spanish bodega. There are sherry casks and bottles of wine on the shelves.
Adios Seville, the final destination on our grown-up inter-rail trip from Edinburgh. Europe by rail is fabulous if you have the time.
The Boomtown Rats school of brand strategy. A reference that carbon dates me but I don’t care because it’s perfect.
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Just saw them not turn up in Lisbon. Sporting wanted it way more than they did.
Photograph of a football stadium scoreboard. The score says SCP 5, Bodo Glimt 0.
Bit of history. Amazing.
Photograph of fans singing and waving scarves in a football stadium.
Quite the comeback in Lisbon. Extra time jeopardising our restaurant booking.
Photograph of a narrow city street with colourful old buildings on each side. An old-style tram is moving up the street on rails.
Hanging out in Lisbon for a few days. Enjoying the vibe and the 23 degrees temperature.
Photograph of terraced vineyards in the sun. Green hills and dark clouds in the distance.
Fabulous bike ride into the hills of the Duoro Valley. A bucolic weekend to break up our train tour of Iberian cities.
Please do.
Photograph of quaint riverside buildings in the sun. There are small boats on the river in front of them.
Bye Porto. You are insanely pretty. And the food… oh my.
Now that IS funny.
Photograph of people surfing on big waves.
Basque surf off Donostia/San Sebastian yesterday.
Photograph on a typical Parisian street under a clear blue sky.
Spring has definitely sprung in Paris.
Photograph of a theatre auditorium.
First visit to the Bridge Theatre for Into The Woods. It’s an impressive space.
