I found some old knitting patterns in a junk shop on the weekend. Not only were the designs pretty awful, the images looked like scenes from old crime movies. Here they are:
The Farage Balloon
It’s 22 years this month since Michael Howard was put on the spot in a famous encounter over his treatment of the Director of Prisons by Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight. What a different time that […]
March
I went to the People’s Vote march on Saturday. It’s a long haul in a space suit from Brighton and the trains weren’t running with NASA efficiency, but I got there OK and was glad […]
Best shop puns
I love shop puns and van puns and snack van puns. I’m not a massive pun fan generally, mostly because they seem to be created by people who find a word and then grind the […]
My 16 Golden Rules of PR
Now available as a downloadable PDF. These rules are solely about the craft of PR, how to do it, and how to avoid some potholes and roadblocks. They’re today’s version. Tomorrow they’ll probably be different. They work for […]
Fractal fractured politics
A fractal is an object, each part of which has the same statistical character as the whole. Those fancy Romanesco broccoli we’ve been importing from Europe are a good example. Fractals are useful in describing […]
Laver’s Law
Laver’s Law, well known to students of fashion, describes the story arc of a fashion trend – from ‘OMG’ to ‘Ooh, I like that’, to ‘OMG, what is he wearing?’. It was the invention of […]
The questions
I watched Elon Musk’s webcast of his presentation about interplanetary travel a few weeks ago. At the end there were questions from the audience. It’s always a problem at these sorts of events, handing the mic […]
Political jargon
A couple of years ago, I set up a service called Polifiller. It was a jargon removal tool for politicians, designed to strike a line through cliches and economies with the truth. “What I’m clear […]