Monthly Archives: July 2007

Posted by Ian   It’s been a strange few days.   Monday’s post-mortem sent us into a kind of tailspin. I’m not sure we quite knew what we were supposed to be doing on the homepage for a while, other than to make … Continue reading →

Posted by Laura   Greetings from Planet London…   … I hope this communication manages to make its way through the dense barrier of urban metropolis, smog and short-sightedness to that distant place known as The Rest Of The Country. … Continue reading →

Posted by Ian   There was a lengthy post-mortem in the office this morning concerning our coverage of the weekend’s flash floods.   On the MSN homepage we lagged behind the rest of the national media in elevating the story from … Continue reading →

Posted by Ian   As I write, the sky outside is pitch black. Thunder is rolling almost continuously, and lightning flashes are streaking across the giant, cavernous clouds. Rain is battering the office windows, washing in great waves down to … Continue reading →

Posted by Dom   You may have noticed that there’s a new Harry Potter book out at the weekend. Across the land on Friday night, hordes of fans will be queuing up to get their hands on the seventh and … Continue reading →

Posted by Laura   First to hit the headlines was the zorse (half-zebra, half-horse), now there’s a media flurry surrounding the liger (half-lion, half-tiger). Though such creatures are not entirely new, the recent fascination over these two animal hybrids has more than a whiff … Continue reading →

Posted by Ian   Yesterday’s lead homepage article on the new north-south divide set a cat among the Trafalgar Square pigeons.   "Just out of curiosity," asked reader Richard Gavey, "I wonder where our MSN homepage editor is from?" Actually all … Continue reading →

Posted by Ian   …what exactly?   My colleague Dom has challenged me to write something that is upbeat, the insinuation being that I have been filling this blog with entries that are almost entirely to do with moaning.    I know that’s … Continue reading →

Posted by Dom   Diaries are getting a bit of a bad press at the moment. Alastair Campbell has been forced to defend his right to publish his inside account of life in the Tony Blair era, although judging by … Continue reading →

Posted by Laura   Yesterday it hailed in Clapham, my neighbourhood. Today I am perplexed, confused and in a state of disarray over what exactly I’m supposed to do with this bout of freakish capriciousness the heavens have thrown at … Continue reading →