Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

East Midland Trains; the Bain of my Life…

Imagine, it’s a cold late October morning. You’re already in a bad mood because you know that the minute you step out the door, returning after a weekend away from uni, everything stops being free.

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Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Ninja Tuna - Mr. Scruff

It really has been a while, a year or so, since an album has grabbed me like this has. Mr. Scruff – Ninja Tuna.

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Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Another music piracy scare

This has been in the news for some time now, well, ever since the matinee P2P sharing version of Napster was shut down. Music companies are losing billions of pounds yearly and artists are making less and less because of it. I suppose you could argue it’s raising a question in relation to ethics, ‘is it right?’ Well, no, it’s illegal but there is some stigmatic-give; its becoming more socially acceptable because a large percentage of files owned by the common teenager are obtained illegally. Is it too late to do something about it?

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Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Royal Mail Fiasco

Since March of this year the Royal Mail accountably made their revenues, profits and margins publically available to view online. Press immediately attacked the profit loss of the company (£3m) and most recently there’s been news of an annual subsidy of £150m from the government to safe-guard closures of 11,500 post offices; rightly so?

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Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Radio 1’s Rhys Hughes on work experience

One of BBC Radio 1’s executive producers Rhys Hughes speaks on behalf of the BBC on work experience. I ask questions centred around internships; how hard it is to land a placement without the right advice….

Radio 1’s Rhys Hughes interview

 

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Friday, June 6th, 2008

De-sensitisation of news

Years ago, my friend and I were talking about the cult film Pulp Fiction. I asked “what do you see in the film,” not fully understanding it’s concept or storyboard. I continued “It’s so graphic, you know,” to which he replied “you have to watch it a few times to get de-sensitised.” I struggled to see the point of that. He was seeing some of the worst things a human can do to another and becoming de-sensitised. I said no thanks, because where does it go from there?

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