Just a few days ago, I had a text message from my mobile phone operator. ‘You could call Ireland for just 10p a minute to landlines, or 20p a minute to mobiles,’ it said. All I had to do was […]

Photo by Marc Nozell, used under a Creative Commons license. Yes we can. Of course we can. But exactly what is it that we can do? Well that’s the great thing about Barack Obama’s tagline. It means whatever you want […]

I’ve just been reading a blog post by one of my favourite bloggers. He’s witty, intelligent and often makes me laugh out loud. His writes things I can’t find anywhere else (the Holy Grail of blogs) which is why he’s […]

This week, it’s time for words to make way for pictures again. Yes, it’s Copycam: my occasional series feauturing copy that’s grabbed my attention – and not always for the right reasons. Last week, this flyer slipped through my letterbox and […]

Let’s pick a country at random. How about Brazil? (Top row, second from the left.) What images come to mind? Sugarloaf Mountain? The long sandy beach of Copacabana? Ronnie Biggs? It it stable? Safe? Corrupt? Would you consider living there? Retiring […]