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Well, I don’t see what all the fuss is about. I mean, who’d get worked up about a change of font?

As the US State Department have found out, the truth is these days it’s not what you say, it’s not even how you say it, it’s how it looks on the page. Their decision to change from Courier to Times New Roman for their reports is a sign that typography, in this modern, computer-set age, is a world away from the wooden carvings and even the hot metal of yore. Unless, of course, you’re … Continue Reading

The information nation took its clues from all the soundbite gluttons

January was a strange old month, with a particularly odd final week. Frankly, when it takes b3ta to come up with the most pithily poignant comment on the past few days (Edit: Image down because people weren’t quoting the source), you know that something’s very wrong somewhere.

Reluctantly, I think that Lord Hutton probably did reach the right conclusions. The balance of those conclusions we can question, but given his terms of reference (to investigate the circumstances regarding Dr David Kelly’s death: no more, no … Continue Reading