Wardman Wire Magazine UK Edition

The Independent is continuing it’s campaign against the use of Celebrity photographs and downmarket stories on highbrow newspaper websites to draw cheap traffic to boost web visitor numbers. Cool.

As you can see from today’s paper, the Indy front page is dominated by a high minded photo of Prince Charles who awarded the OBEs; no smiley blondes for the Independent.

Thank God they didn’t cheapen the campaign by running a downmarket photo of a pop icon with a caption such as - oh - “The showgirl and the Prince”.

The Independent is continuing it’s campaign against the use of Celebrity photographs and downmarket stories on highbrow newspaper websites to draw cheap traffic to boost web visitor numbers. Cool.

As you can see from today’s paper, the Indy front page is dominated by a high minded photo of Prince Charles who awarded the OBEs; no smiley blondes for the Independent.

Thank God they didn’t cheapen the campaign by running a downmarket photo of a pop icon with a caption such as - oh - “The showgirl and the Prince”.

The Independent is continuing it’s campaign against the use of Celebrity photographs and downmarket stories on highbrow newspaper websites to draw cheap traffic to boost web visitor numbers. Cool.

As you can see from today’s paper, the Indy front page is dominated by a high minded photo of Prince Charles who awarded the OBEs; no smiley blondes for the Independent.

Thank God they didn’t cheapen the campaign by running a downmarket photo of a pop icon with a caption such as - oh - “The showgirl and the Prince”.

The Independent is continuing it’s campaign against the use of Celebrity photographs and downmarket stories on highbrow newspaper websites to draw cheap traffic to boost web visitor numbers. Cool.

As you can see from today’s paper, the Indy front page is dominated by a high minded photo of Prince Charles who awarded the OBEs; no smiley blondes for the Independent.

Thank God they didn’t cheapen the campaign by running a downmarket photo of a pop icon with a caption such as - oh - “The showgirl and the Prince”.

This morning Sandef Rhyferys has published a translation of a letter to David Cameron from Professor Richard Wyn Jones, Director of the Institute of Welsh Politics at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University.

Professor Wyn Jones addresses the future possibilities for Welsh politics, and the future of devolved government in Wales. He argues for a further shift to greater powers for the Welsh Assembly.

It is a long letter, and I have quoted the first part below. I have not indented the quote on this occasion.

From Sanddef:

Translation of a letter to David Cameron written by Professor Richard Wyn Jones, Director of the Institute of Welsh Politics at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University. The original welsh version can be found in the current edition of the Welsh current affairs magazine, Barn.

I couldn’t resist this.

Send a message to Cookie Monster and other cookie lobbyists that cookies are not a “sometimes” food, they are an “always” food. Fight for your right to eat cookies any damn time you want.

I won’t be buying a lapel pin, however.

Cartoon: Gaping Void

A weekly roundup of publications, reports, events & articles from the leading UK think tanks.

Even although I’m now having to leave out as much as I’m putting in (see below) I’m conscious this is still quite a lengthy read (certainly by the standard of most blog posts). So each week I’ll flag a ‘must read’ item for those who don’t have the time to read the full post let alone the content it highlights - an entirely subjective choice on my part of course but I’ll endeavour to be as fair and non-partisan about that choice as I can. This week it has to be the Joseph Rowntree paper “A minimum income standard for Britain: What people think”, touching as it does on issues of relative v’s absolute poverty and making judgements about income levels needed to ‘participate in society’…