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Tea and Kittens go national!
Not a bad week for www.teaandkittens.co.uk – it’s tipped over 40,000 pageviews, over 300 people have installed Kitten Block for Firefox and this Saturday it got a listing in the Guardian Guide – thanks to Rachel H for pointing it out.
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Kittens vs the Daily Mail
This is what the Daily Mail website now looks like on my computer. Let me explain. It’s hard to avoid the Daily Mail. Even if you’d never choose to buy a copy, links to its website are everywhere (except this post, obviously). Some are easy to spot and avoid, but when one is obfuscated by…
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The end of the News Shopper “Star Letter” debacle
It’s now two weeks since the News Shopper published a nasty homophobic rant and awarded the sender with a prize – a nice new pen from a local store. Last week there was no mention of the whole sorry mess in the paper – strange, given that the paper claimed it was published to “fuel…
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Star Letter – the clue’s in the name
Here’s the Star Letter in our local paper, the News Shopper, this week: Thanks to Clay Harris for scanning this and posting it online. And here’s the response from the News Shopper this morning (read from the bottom up): I’m not going to go into detail as this has all been covered more comprehensively elsewhere,…
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Lewisham East Candidate Expenses
You’ve probably seen Channel 4’s report on campaigning expenses, and Zac Goldsmith’s rather bizarre attempt to ignore every rule of media training in addressing the allegations made against his campaign. In any case, once he did finally turn to the matter at hand, one of Mr Goldsmith’s key arguments seems to be that the methods…
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On Marriage..
This article about marriage is pretty depressing. Not because the number of marriages is falling, you understand. That doesn’t really bother me. But let’s take a look. For the first time ever fewer than 2 in 100 women, over the age of 16, got married in a single year. In 2008 the marriage rate for women…
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SouthEastern SnowFail: The End
About a week ago I wrote to SouthEastern Railway’s Public Affairs Manager, asking him two questions that could be answered with a simple yes or no. I didn’t get a yes or no answer to either, and when I pushed for a straight answer to one of them the gentleman in question simply stopped replying…
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South by SouthEastern, continued.
The fallout from SouthEastern Railway’s utter failure to cope with the recent snow continues, and you’ll find a good summary of the latest developments here. One thing to add is that, of the three politicans I contacted, one has sent a proper reply. Bridget Prentice MP (for Lewisham East) confirmed receipt of my letter via…
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SouthEastern Railways – the Network Rail response
On Tuesday night, with snow forecast for the South East, SouthEastern railways introduced an emergency timetable for Wednesday. As it happens, South Eastern London didn’t see that much snow, but with fewer and shorter trains serving the area on Wednesday morning, Hither Green station looked a bit like this: All the trains were packed, and…