By Mark Palmer on March 30, 2012
Look at this picture and tell me about it. I am seeing the same picture as you – right?…no wrong. The picture may be the same to both of us, but what you see or I see are likely to be very different. Some of us will tell you about the mayonaise, the 3 cans [...]
By Mark Palmer on February 28, 2012
Thank god I checked my quarantine box this morning. Both Jennifer Aniston and Angela Jolie had sent me emails to me. I could have missed them.
Spam is a funny thing. Intending to destroy your computer, or hijacking your email contacts to allow someone to exploit your friends, or just to fraudulently part you with your [...]
By Mark Palmer on July 18, 2011
The “wisdom of Roy Jeans” could sound like many things. It could be a Country & Western hit. It could be a movie starring Gary Cooper. It could be a moving novel about a defence lawyer fighting for normal people’s rights against an oppressive state regieme. It may indeed still be all of these. However, [...]
By Mark Palmer on August 26, 2010
The Reading Festival started today. It’s perfect timing. In addition to all those music fans and previous festival goers, there is the exam generation. The 18 year olds with months of hard slog who have finished their A levels. They have realised the realities, passed panicking over clearing and now just need a “chillax” with [...]
By Mark Palmer on April 23, 2010
As the second TV election leaders debate closes in the UK, one thing is becoming clear to me. This is not an election about who to vote for. This is an election about giving you “permission to vote for”. The secret to understanding the huge swing to the Lib Dems may well [...]