Jibber.
And indeed jabber.
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Everyone's petrified of a potential customer, employer or collaborator heading to their website's blog or their Twitter feed and finding three years of inactivity. It just doesn't look good. But I'm well aware that business priorities rarely promote kicking back,...
Analyse The Analysts – EURO 2016
It's that special time. The season's finished. The year ends with an even number. Telly is shit. It can only mean... it's time for a load of fat ex-pros, fat club managers and soon-to-be-fat injured footballers to analyse a major football tournament for us. I'll do my...
Beer brand-building
Beer brand-building Sometimes as a copywriter you are asked to write about something boring and paid reasonable money for it. Sometimes as a copywriter you are asked to write about something interesting and paid nothing for it. This is a tale, fortunately for you,...
Jokes that only work on 6Music
Shaun Keaveny this morning asked for listeners' 'jokes that only work on BBC Radio 6 Music'. I didn't offer this one up as it also requires some bi-lingual skill. I came up with it, somewhat unbelievably, when in the midst of a heavy hangover in Bordeaux: Qu'est-ce...
Farewell midweek drinking
I'm a pretty decent writer. However today I have been a waste of oxygen. I used to enjoy a midweek drink, and even sort of get a kick out of struggling through the next day. It isn't quite as fun when ineffective = not earning though. Uncommon practice as it is for me...
Mercury is poisonous, you know
A title bristling with insinuation, isn’t it? Well I’m not going to damn it to hell, but I’ve always had a bit of an issue with the Mercury Music Prize. Or the Barclaycard Mercury Prize, as it now refers to itself. But rather than just blindly slagging it off like...
What a Lush experience, Captain
I’ve been known to complain. Like after my girlfriend and I had been shoehorned into a knackered old coach without a toilet for four hours on our return from a three-day festival. And when I ordered a new bath panel and nobody ever contacted me about it, or its...
My Summer FOMO
OMG, FOMO is actually a thing IMO. Or ‘Oh My God, Fear Of Missing Out is actually a thing In My Opinion’. I’m sure you knew that. AO (Acronym Overkill) These everyday chat acronyms are pretty annoying in general, a lazy bastardisation of our beautiful language....
POWER Resolutions
I want to look like Jean Claude Van Damme. I’m going to earn a million quid. I will be an astronaut by next Christmas. What do these three statements have in common? Other than being… err… aspirational? THEY’RE UNREALISTIC. At least on their own, anyway. If you want...
