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Charles Arthur

• The Lotus Notes hating just goes on… and on

  I’ve written before (here and of course in the Gdn Tech section) about the amazing outpouring of hate that comes from users whenever you mention Lotus Notes. And here it is again.. We’ve been pretty much told that when the Guardian moves to King’s Place, as it will from September or so, that w ...

• Ken Livingstone not exactly going gentle into, wel ...

  One forgets what a consumate politician Ken Livingstone is - meaning that he has that fantastic ability, when he speaks, of persuading you (just for those moments) that anyone who holds the opposite position is a complete and utter idiot. Wonderful to be reminded on Dave Hill’s blog watching the G ...

• What if there was a football team that never playe ...

  David Mitchell wrote the second of two terrific sports comment articles for the Guardian on Friday (could be he’s going to do more, certainly hope so). In I want a long rest from a game that never sleeps, he notes that Despite the fact that no matches are being played, football still dominates the ...

• Roger Highfield leaves Telegraph to edit New Scien ...

  Wow. Roger Highfield, who has been at the Daily Telegraph for 22 years, is leaving to edit New Scientist (for which I still have a lot of residual affection, having written for it during one of my years of freelancing, and worked there from 1992-95). NS is a great mag: it’s one of four that I [... ...

• If newspapers were written by astrologers and psyc ...

  One of the enduring tales about “what readers want” in newspapers is that they want the astrology columns - take them out and people will either complain, or silently switch to another paper - and that they do respond to the “psychic help line” adverts (otherwise, why are there so many of th ...

Charles

• The Lotus Notes hating just goes on… and on

  I’ve written before (here and of course in the Gdn Tech section) about the amazing outpouring of hate that comes from users whenever you mention Lotus Notes. And here it is again.. We’ve been pretty much told that when the Guardian moves to King’s Place, as it will from September or so, that w ...

• Ken Livingstone not exactly going gentle into, wel ...

  One forgets what a consumate politician Ken Livingstone is - meaning that he has that fantastic ability, when he speaks, of persuading you (just for those moments) that anyone who holds the opposite position is a complete and utter idiot. Wonderful to be reminded on Dave Hill’s blog watching the G ...

• What if there was a football team that never playe ...

  David Mitchell wrote the second of two terrific sports comment articles for the Guardian on Friday (could be he’s going to do more, certainly hope so). In I want a long rest from a game that never sleeps, he notes that Despite the fact that no matches are being played, football still dominates the ...

• Roger Highfield leaves Telegraph to edit New Scien ...

  Wow. Roger Highfield, who has been at the Daily Telegraph for 22 years, is leaving to edit New Scientist (for which I still have a lot of residual affection, having written for it during one of my years of freelancing, and worked there from 1992-95). NS is a great mag: it’s one of four that I [... ...

• If newspapers were written by astrologers and psyc ...

  One of the enduring tales about “what readers want” in newspapers is that they want the astrology columns - take them out and people will either complain, or silently switch to another paper - and that they do respond to the “psychic help line” adverts (otherwise, why are there so many of th ...