Welcome to a series where old posts are revived for a second outing for reasons such as their subject has become topical again, they have aged well but were first posted when the site’s readership was only a tenth or less of what it is currently or they got published and the site crashed, hiding the finest words of wisdom behind an incomprehensible error message. Today’s has been updated with the latest hemline flip-flop.
Daily Telegraph, 12 December 2008: “Recession pulls hemlines down“.
Daily Telegraph, 6 March 2009: “Hemlines rise during economic downturns”.
Daily Telegraph, 9 July 2010: “It’s happening again. Hemlines are falling in times of hardship”.
But perhaps it is neither up nor down?
Daily Telegraph, 5 February 2009: “the relationship between fashion and the economy is often more subtly complex than that”.
Never let it be said the Daily Telegraph doesn’t cover all the angles.
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The Telegraph should be burned at the stake using the Mail and Sun as kindling.
Actually Steve, I favour stuffing the Telegraph with the Express and the Star, basting it with the Evening Standard, on a base of the Mail and the Sun and then cremating the whole thing. Then I’d put Murdoch on the no entry to Britain list.
Mark Park.
Why am I not surprised?
The biggest media story, of the last 2 weeks, by a country mile, is Nick Clegg lied to his party and electorate…
And you run a story on the Daily Telegraph.
The second biggest? The Prime Minister, your leader, offends 2 actual Nation States with his clumsy and amateurish Foreign Policy ramblings…and you write about hemlines.
This blog has simply become irrelevant.
Then surely you should cease to visit it.
Cuse:
So you consider that (1) Israel’s policy in Gaza is right, and (2) Pakistan is wholly sincere and reliable in its avowed opposition to Islamic extremism? Is that the Labour Party view, or just your own?
For my part, I am delighted that Cameron, having spent the previous few days at the feet of the military-industrial-complex and the families, for a few fleeting moments deviates from his masters’ commands.
“This blog has simply become irrelevant.”
So why do you continue to post here?
Sesenco. Dear, sweet Sesenco.
Cameron is a bloody liability. You get what you support – and the Lib Dems are propping up a fat, heaving bosomed idiot with a 6th former’s knowledge of the World.
Pakistan was a gaffe. To label it as ‘straight speaking’, alongside the idiotic statement on Gaza as many have tried to do – is no more than sycophancy. If it were meant – then I look forward to Cameron speaking in Canada and denouncing the US as murdering war criminals; standing up in Taiwan + labelling the Chinese as undemocratic torturers; proclaiming Russia as thieves and rogues and torturers and unprincipled war mongerers from a stage in Ukraine; and taking to the stage in Spain and pigeon holing the French as cheese eating surrender monkeys.
Think it’ll happen?