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      • The fifth cut
        08/29/2006
        A moment of unrestricted joy in the supermarket today. Those clever people at Gillette have only gone and made my year.
        As any man who has summoned the willpower and concentration for a morning shave knows, more blades is better. When Gillette brought out the Mach 3 all those years ago, my ini

      • Botched exit strategy
        08/28/2006


        If ever there were a contest for cretinous acts of building design, this one would top the 'entrances and exits' category. Located a full fifteen feet above a concrete pavement in the Hamburg suburb of Barmbek, anyone unfortunate enough to leave the building via this exit is li

      • On beauty
        08/27/2006


        Tucked away in the corner of a large Hamburg hairdressing wholesaler, I encountered these three stunners. Before you ask out loud what business I had being in a large Hamburg hairdressing wholesaler, you should perhaps first ask yourself whether you were in a more interesting outlet at t

      • Inventive styles
        08/22/2006
        This man was photographed in Belsize Road at about 1 o'clock this afternoon. He is suspected of grievous sartorial harm, including gross misuse of mittens, braces and brand new brogues. We also suspect illegal possession of a pair of England football socks. He was last spotted indulging in a fa

      • The call of the wasted
        08/21/2006
        The weekend consisted of a truly exhausting stag weekend for a good friend. Like true anglo saxon males, dedicated to showing alcoholic and physical prowess we do not have, we drank, climbed Mt. Snowdon, drank, watched the rain whip across the slate roofs of the little Welsh village and then got ano

      • London's rubbish
        08/17/2006

        Take an unscripted short-cut and you'll stumble across all kinds of unglamorous nooks and crannies in this capital. Take this one - it condenses a lot of London into a single package. The combination of rubbish, graceful lines, steel sky, disused fridges and rancid puddle puts it pretty s

      • The Platform Gazers
        08/16/2006




        Is it a bird, is it a plane, is it the new Superman movie? No, it's the 10.12 to Eastleigh, but we can't tell you what platform it's leaving from. Not yet, anyway. In Germany, the platform number would have been agreed at least several months in advance, but Br

      • Smile, you're on CCTV
        08/13/2006
        Did you know that the British are officially addicted to surveillance? This country, birthplace of the neighbourhood watch is actually home to over 4 million CCTV cameras, which makes up a bewildering 20% of the world's total number. Note that we are not a totalitarian state (yet), and that fre

      • Destroyer Of Weeds
        08/09/2006


        Strictly speaking, it's not my garden, it's Mayke's. Anyhow, I thought I would continue on the slippery slope to a slipper-based lifestyle when I did the weeding in the garden. Again, there was a time when I wouldn't have been seen dead doing this kind of work, but no

      • Seaside
        08/08/2006


        There isn't quite anywhere as inspiring for a family day out as the seaside. Children dig in the sand for God-knows-what, watched by twitchy, fat seagulls who think that they might be on to something. Meanwhile, the adults recline in their beach baskets and allow themselves to sizzl

      • Autobahn
        08/05/2006


        What you are looking at here is either a spectacularly bad night shot or a piece of high art. If there are any bored record producers reading this who are looking for an album cover to a major rock band's breakthrough, giga-platinum-selling masterpiece, then look no further than thi

      • The dummies' guide to advertising
        08/02/2006
        This one goes out to any advertising agency involved in trying to win clients. In the unlikely event of you landing on potential new business, please listen to the following announcement.

        A small delight provided by my job of marketing manager is to see how ad agencies try to portray them

      • With love from Hemel
        08/01/2006


        Located within striking distance of London is the strategically-located Hemel Hempstead - a double-barrelled character of a town with its very own Holiday Inn. Take refuge from the soothing buzz of the M1 within the plush confines of this retreat. Despite the name, the Holiday Inn has no

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