In scandals it’s not usually the initial misdemeanour which gets you, it’s how you handle the consequences — incident followed by attempted cover-up does a lot more damage than incident followed by immediate contrition. Following the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross farrago we now have a Mock the Week/Frank Boyle furore. After the broadcasting the comedian’s comments [...]
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Just a note, that in Russell Brand’s video resignation and apology he’s standing in front of a picture of Joseph Stalin. Sadly you can’t quite see it on the video linked here, but it’s quite clear in the still on the front of my final edition Guardian. His positioning in this video won’t be accidental, [...]
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Portrait of the artist: Saskia Reeves, actorThe picture at the top of this article is the only way I can imagine Saskia Reeves, as the passionate mathematician in Theatre Complite's "A Disappearing Number". (theatre actors ) LR/Transporter for LightroomLightroom plugin that enables more flexible importing, exporting and modification of metadata fields (photography lightroom plugins tools [...]
Since I hadn’t picked up my camera for while I took a walk into Kings Cross to see what I could see. The sky was pretty dramatic. Here’s one of the photos I took; there are a few more on Flickr. Tags: photography
