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How Porn Can Help Your Film
It's no secret that sex sells. However, the relatively low start-up costs and minimal equipment required to make a film in the porn industry have also contributed to its growing revenue. Many of the...
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Don't Believe the Deaf Community Exists? Watch Grayson Perry Discover the...
The concept of people being linked by something they see as being inextricably negative is ridiculous to them. A typical response goes like this one from a commenter on an article I wrote for the BBC...
View Article'The Apprentice': Lord Sugar's 2014 Final Dozen Candidates And Their...
'The Apprentice' is down to its final 12 now, which is where we usually come in, except this year has seen Lord Sugar recruiting a load more so that he can have more firing fun. READ ALSO: Apprentice...
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Artists Explore the Digital Age in MIRRORCITY at Hayward Gallery
MIRRORCITY showcases new and commissioned work by artists living in London on the challenges and impact of living in a digital age. The exhibition presents artworks in a wide variety of media, from...
View ArticleThe Best Debut Novels of 2014
Every year thousands of debut novels are published in the UK, struggling to get noticed by readers, reviewers and bloggers, and desperate to make that all important good first impression. I hadn't, in...
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Mark World Toilet Day By Voting For Your Favourite Toilet Joke
Around 1,400 children die every day from diseases caused by dirty water and poor sanitation. Roughly one in ten of the world's population lives without safe water. And 2.5 billion people live without...
View ArticleFilming in North Korea: An Open Look Inside a Closed State
For people of my generation (I was born in 1990), the idea of a real West/East dichotomy of the world doesn't exist anymore. Now of course Western and Eastern culture, traditions, society and history...
View ArticleAddicted to Our Own Drugs
I've said mindfulness is about paying attention, which is a whole different bucket of fish from the idea of 'focus'. To most of us they are more or less the same. Focus is when we're cocooned in that...
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'The Apprentice' Episode 5 Review - Fired Candidate Jemma Bird Claims She Was...
This week's fired 'Apprentice' candidate Jemma Bird claims she should never have been in the boardroom in the first place, and ended up being the scapegoat for brasher contestant James Hill. Jemma Bird...
View Article'Stupid Penguins': The John Lewis Christmas Advert Gets Its First Parody
Well, that didn't take long, did it? Yes, no sooner had this year's John Lewis Christmas advert 'dropped' (as we believe The Kids say) at 8am this morning, than the first spoof version appeared a few...
View ArticleJohn Lewis Christmas Advert 2014: Best And Funniest Twitter Reactions To...
In case you hadn’t noticed, John Lewis have unveiled their latest Christmas advert, which has got the whole of Twitter talking. READ MORE: WATCH: The Making Of 'The Bear And The Hare' John Lewis Xmas...
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Our Favourite Shop: John Simons, the Tale Of a London Stylist
We live today in an era of obsession with the fashion of celebrity, beset also by what Will Self recently called (in relation to the hipster) a "mindless attitudinising". This much is true, because to...
View ArticleThe Good Days and the Bad Days: How Character Can Get Us Through
I am a self-acknowledged, self-confessed, self-help junkie. And like any self-help junkie worth her salt, I love a good quote. This week I came across one I reckoned you really ought to know about....
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Perfecting Your Amazon Page
What to do if you're not Graham Norton, you don't have a sensationally saucy autobiography to sell, but you're still determined to make your book a success? This week's blog comes courtesy of Valerie...
View ArticleWhile It Might Look a Little Like a Duck
The ad model changed. An unintended consequence of Tim Berners-Lee sending an html missive, and the butterfly effect of digital revolution that followed. Technology evolved 'media', and turned a...
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John Lewis Christmas Advert: Who Is Tom Odell? Meet The Singer Behind The...
By now you can’t fail to have noticed that John Lewis have unveiled their latest Christmas advert, a tearjerking tale of penguin love around the festive season. What could get us more in the mood for...
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Taylor Swift Is Unrecognisable As 12-Year-Old In Instagram Pic Shared With...
If we'd just shifted almost 1.3million albums in the US in the space of a week we'd be popping open the champers - not so Taylor Swift, who celebrated by sharing a photograph of herself as a slightly...
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'Interstellar' Star Jessica Chastain Reveals She'd Love To Make A Rom-Com,...
Jessica Chastain has been feted for her impressive work in a series of big budget dramas from 'The Help' to 'Zero Dark Thirty', but the Oscar-nominated actress reveals she'd love to make a rom-com. One...
View ArticleThe Immigration Debate
Every couple of years immigration becomes a hot topic. Right now it feels like it's the only thing in the news. When I download a paper, listen to the radio or turn on the TV, all the major stories are...
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Aldi Xmas Ad - Supermarket's Answer To John Lewis's #MontyPenguin Xmas Ad
While the first bells of Christmas were officially run this morning with the advent of John Lewis's Christmas ad, featuring the feathered talents of Monty the Penguin, rival store Aldi have uncovered...
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