As food increasingly becomes a global commodity a whole host of new ethical and political problems attach themselves to it.  Think of it perhaps as another set of ingredients which should be printed on the packaging but usually isn’t.  That’s because if we really knew about the origins of everything presented to us at the [...]

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Much has been written about the life of Malcolm McLaren this week, who died this week age 64. The obit’s I’ve read mostly talk about how he was a self-obsessed publicity seeker, who mopped up credit for things wherever he could.
Whilst that may be true in part, he did make a huge contribution to popular [...]

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This Easter most of the big supermarkets are open everyday bar Sunday.  The nearest Tesco is even open 24hrs a day most days.
Good news for Supermarket shoppers but less good news for staff, judging by the comments I’ve heard them utter when perusing the aisles. So much for family values and the work life balance, [...]

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Big cities can be a mixed bag. They can be centres of pollution, deprivation, and conflict. However they can also be centres of vibrancy, diversity, and opportunity. London is no exception and has examples of all of the above. Most visitors to London probably think of Oxford Street, Covent Garden or perhaps the Tate modern [...]

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Career grump Charlie has done it again. Hit the protruding nail on it’s rusty head. The head being the talking heads of TV news reporting. I’ve often wondered why the  formulaic and hackneyed style of much  TV news reporting  doesn’t come under fire more often.  It’s banal sequences of nodding heads and insincere men in [...]

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I took a couple of pictures as I passed my favourite London statue last week, thought worth posting here. It’s a fairly new installation at the entrance to Liverpool Street station.
The statue of course represents a terrible event in 20th century history, but what I like about it is it’s human scale.  It’s not a [...]

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