in spiked November 20, 2009

Never mind the guest presenters

The fashion for using a variety of hosts to replace a familiar front man reveals the BBC's indecision

In Culture Wars, November 13, 2009

Forget about it

Delete, The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (Princeton University Press)

In many respects, search engines know more about you than you do yourself. Human beings forget; digital databases do not. Thus, Mayer-Schönberger suggests, the digital age is becoming an enemy of progress. Forgetting is what make us human. Amnesia is what allows us to move on, develop and mature.

in spiked November 13, 2009

Communists can’t make cola
The Secret Life of The Berlin Wall was gripping, but it didn’t explain anything new, like why East German coke was so bad

in spiked November 6, 2009

The Noughties: 10 years of nostalgia

The most striking thing about this decade is how much of it we spent looking back at past decades.