30 January

Who Are You Calling Stupid?
It’s probably fair to say I’m better known as a music reviewer than anything else. That isn’t to say I’m at all ‘well known’, but everything’s relative. The fact is that my ‘bread and butter’ writing emerges in the form … Continue reading →

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20 January

The Novel is Under Threat….
For some time now, the status of the novel has been under threat, not just from technological developments like the Kindle, but from self-suffocation and overanalysis. In attempting to break free of the shackles of conventions, authors of contemporary fiction … Continue reading →

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09 January

The Changing Face of Consumerism XI: Back Down on the Street, or, Going for Bust
So a mere matter of days after my last piece on the struggling high street, I woke up this morning to more news of high street stores experiencing a drop in like-for-like sales in comparison to the same time last … Continue reading →

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05 January

The Changing Face of Consumerism X: Down on the Street
Only just a few days into January and already the sales reports from the high street are beginning to filter through for the run-up to Christmas. It’s difficult to imagine that anyone will be surprised by the fact that broadly, … Continue reading →

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28 December

The Changing Face of Consumerism IX – Real, Real, Real
Just as the nature of consumerism has changed dramatically during the course of the last decade – not to mention the last half-century – so the nature of industry has also metamorphasised. In so-called ‘developing’ countries (it’s a questionable term. … Continue reading →

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