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Featured Blog Posts December 04, 2012
Bobby Duffy
Bobby Duffy

The Chancellor's Autumn Statement: Reasons He'll Be Cheerful?

A recent Ipsos MORI poll for the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufacture and Commerce) found that 61% of Britons are concerned about the effects of cuts on them and their family over the next year. However, the Ipsos MORI Economic Optimism Index (EOI) shows that the public are beginning to feel slightly more positive about the direction of the economy compared to earlier in the year. Continue reading...

Jamie Bartlett
Jamie Bartlett

Does Social Media Make Us Nasty?

Technology can and frequently does change our relationship with the each other and society. It can disrupt and unsettle quite finely balanced moral decisions that we make, and not always for the better. It is neither good nor bad, but it is not exactly neutral, either. Continue reading...

Wendy Powell
Wendy Powell

Fat Loss for Mums: Five Enemies of Your Waistline and How to Crush Them!

You could be all but starving yourself, as well as spending hours doing cardio workouts, and still that persistent layer of flab around your tummy refuses to budge. What's that all about? Well, basically, it's about ignoring how your body works. Continue reading...

Rupert Parker
Rupert Parker

Planet Appetite: Secrets of Bowmore Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Bowmore's secret weapon is its warehouse, the No.1 Vaults, damp, cold and dark, right by the water, slightly below ground level. The sea air permeates the casks, adding a hint of saltiness to the wood. Continue reading...

Wendy Wason
Wendy Wason

Let's Start With Us Shall We?

I don't know why people bully others. The sense of power leaving someone shaking with fear must be a real high to people with very little going on in their lives. It saddens me and I really try to treat the spats my children have at school with the utmost gravity when they come to me. Continue reading...

Brodie Smithers
Brodie Smithers

A Supermarket Guide to Non-Alcoholic Beer

There is a large section of society who are violently allergic to the concept of non-alcoholic beer. I also know the most common misgiving is the whole "What's the point?" question. With comparisons to sex without the orgasm and coffee without the caffeine it is a difficult sell for most people. Continue reading...

Joe Mott
Joe Mott

Bruce Willis and the Vanishing Car

I'm quite sure that by the strict letter of the law, Hackney Council are perfectly entitled to take my car and charge me that money because - despite being an Olympic Park away (almost) from where I was parked - they had put up a sign. Continue reading...

  • Posted 3 February 2013
  • UK
Mark Topley
Mark Topley

We Need Volunteers, but Not Knee Jerk Reaction

Today we celebrate volunteers and volunteering across the world. But for us this is not just a celebration of volunteers as a token, 'useful' contribution to enable the paid staff to carry on with their work; but as true partners, fellow family members working together to bring lasting change to people who are in pain. Continue reading...

  • Posted 3 February 2013
  • UK
John Rentoul
John Rentoul

Ask a Silly Question

One of my early favourites was "Is the Turin Shroud Genuine After All?" a lovely question in the Mail on Sunday in April 2009, especially for that highly-collectable "After All" at the end, which brilliantly implies that the Mail on Sunday knows perfectly well that the shroud is a fake, but that some startling new evidence has come to light that suggests that the fruitcakes had been right "all along". Continue reading...

Claire Surrey
Claire Surrey

William, Kate and Women's Health in Celebrity Media

The celebrity media's role in bringing a previously obscure maternal condition to the forefront of popular culture - just imagine the pub quiz questions to be mined from hyperemesis gravidarum's Wikipedia entry this week - carries important implications for health communication. Continue reading...

Dr Raj Persaud
Dr Raj Persaud

If Morning Sickness Is Associated With Fewer Miscarriages and Higher IQ Babies - Should It Be Treated?

Miserable though it may be to experience as a condition, in fact 'morning sickness' (if it's not of the rarer more severe kind), oddly enough, can be good news for a pregnancy. It's associated with lowered risk for miscarriage, pre-term birth, low birth weight, and perinatal death. Continue reading...

Steve McKevitt
Steve McKevitt

Football Crazy - Why I Blame the Parents

It was Sunday afternoon. I was cold, wet and bored. And a 13-year-old boy had just called me a 'f***ing b*stard'... This is the kind of behaviour, completely unacceptable in the real world, that passes for normal in the world of kids' football. Continue reading...

Oisin Browne
Oisin Browne

Need to Build a Better Business Marketing Strategy?

Need to build a better business marketing strategy? To build a better business you must not only make a business marketing plan, you need to revisit and rewrite it regularly. You need to get excited about it and most importantly you must execute it. Continue reading...

  • Posted 3 February 2013
  • UK
Michael Townsend
Michael Townsend

Capitalism 2.0: Is There a Better Way?

"Do not be mistaken. There are many thousands of business leaders and investors at all scales who want to align their actions and their decisions with the goals of the new economy." - Bob Massie, President of the New Economics Institute (NEI). Out with the Old Continue reading...

  • Posted 3 February 2013
  • UK
Rev. Michelle L. Torigian
Rev. Michelle L. Torigian

Pregnant With a King (or Queen)

How ironic that the announcement of Kate Middleton's pregnancy was made on the second day of Advent! Has the season of Advent been shadowed or enhanced by the news of a modern-day royal birth? Continue reading...

Joe O'Donnell
Joe O'Donnell

Government to Force Unemployed to Take Jobs With Few Employment Rights?

This is a depressing time for anyone who believes that the State should help ensure equality of bargaining power between employers and employees. Continue reading...

  • Posted 3 February 2013
  • UK
John Lubbock
John Lubbock

How Bahrain Lost the Propaganda War

While some commentators have recently been ringing the death knell of the Bahrain uprising, there is one place where the Bahraini government and their apologists have entirely failed to impose their authority: online. Continue reading...

  • Posted 3 February 2013
  • World
Caroline Elliot
Caroline Elliot

Talk to Us, Not About Us

This week saw the opening of the 6th Africities Summit in Dakar, Senegal with the aspiration of contributing "to the emergence of Africa of the people". Yet it is the people themselves who are all too often absent from such gatherings of the great and the good. Continue reading...

  • Posted 3 February 2013
  • UK
Nathan Newman
Nathan Newman

FTC Punt on Google May Open Way for More Comprehensive Antitrust Probe by DOJ and States

If the FTC and European regulators are not yet ready to deal with the ultimate source of Google's economic power, its control of user data, then it may be just as well that any likely settlements in coming months will be limited. Continue reading...

Edward Wasserman
Edward Wasserman

Libel by Tweet

One-on-one talk, even mean-spirited, deserves protection. It's just private chatter, nobody's business but our own. But what about when thousands of people listen in? Continue reading...

  • Posted 3 February 2013
  • Media
Stephanie Kennedy
Stephanie Kennedy

Conflicts and Conundrums: How the Venezuelan State Must Strike the Balance With its Indigenous People

To the west of the country, the Sierra de Perijá, a stretch of both mountains and plains, traces the conflictive border zone between Colombia and Venezuela. The region's inhabitants are, today, a mixture of indigenous groups, cattle farmers, both rich and humble, and the inevitable generational pool of all three. Continue reading...

  • Posted 3 February 2013
  • UK