January 11, 2010
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"David Cameron can claim to have made the most of his luck, a luck he acknowledges. However, the fact remains that he had the luck for which Britain does too little to compensate. Those who weren't so lucky know how unfair it is; they feel it instinctively. Certainly, Labour and the prime minister should stop harping on about Eton and toffs; it cheapens the whole debate. But they should talk their heads off about fairness, including private education."
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January 10, 2010
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"“I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes’s horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to,” said Matthew Freud, who is married to Ms. Murdoch and whom PR Week magazine says is the most influential public relations executive in London."
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January 9, 2010
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Tensions between artistic squatters and the gentrification of Hamburg districts according to the ideas of Richard Florida
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"Because we favour certain ways of dressing and don't shy away from using obscure words and we went to Columbia University, people have put all the elements together and prejudged us as privileged white kids, even using the word 'Wasp', which immediately implies privilege," he says. "Those things, juxtaposed with our interest in world music, have made it very easy for people to raise the flag of colonialism or imperialism. But the two main writers in the band are Jewish and Persian, which is a pretty broad definition of 'whiteness'. We're certainly not all fresh off the Mayflower."
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January 8, 2010
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"In the early years of the noughties, it was still a perfectly permissible and thoroughly warranted stance to look down on indie as the laggard sector of contemporary music. Hip-hop (plus related genres like R&B and dancehall) and electronic dance music commanded the aesthetic high ground then. Now, at the other end of the decade, it's a lot less clear cut, I think."
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January 4, 2010
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"Gary in Castle Carrock tells me he has never voted Conservative before but will vote for me simply because I am the first politician who has bothered to come to his village. Things that strike me as priorities are not necessarily so to others. The mobile phone reception is worse in Cumbria than in Kabul. Email is very slow. But although people on doorsteps acknowledge the problem, it does not seem to excite them. Other things mystify me: why, when 99.5% of Cumbrians are recorded as “white”, am I told by a man in a Greystoke pub that the No 1 problem is immigration and sharia?"
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November 5, 2009
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"Like every other graphic designer I know, I watched the live images of campaign rallies from Toledo to Topeka to Tallahassee with a growing feeling of awe. Obama’s oratorical skills were one thing. But the awe-inspiring part was the way all of the signs were faithfully, and beautifully, set in Hoefler and Frere-Jones’s typeface Gotham."
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November 4, 2009
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"The British blogosphere, for instance, still lags behind its American equivalent in terms of its impact upon national discourse. But it’s catching up. Next year’s election will be, to trot out a familiar phrase, “the first internet election”. At Westminster at least, there are a number of bloggers considered vital, daily reads within the parliamentary and media villages."
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