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Max Mosley: are you an amateur or a professional in life?

These days, television programmes come round and round like race cars on a track. Gone are the days when, if you missed them, you missed them. And you can pause and rewind programmes too which means, if anyone says anything … Continue reading

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The perverse cult of celebrity

When I was at school, we had a visiting preacher in Chapel who told us there were three things in his sermon that we would never forget. And I haven’t. They were: Don’t poison Socrates. Don’t crucify Christ. Stand up … Continue reading

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Conservatives a careless brand

First published on Brand Republic on 6 Oct 2011 Last week, I dutifully recorded Ed Miliband’s speech at the Labour Conference. I watched it in the evening and stayed up late writing my post only to find that, apart from … Continue reading

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