Tentative idea. Bazball cricket worked brilliantly when it burst on the scene. Some of that was the power of belief, some of it was shock value- if you're not expecting it, you're not going… (View Post)

Southern Westward Harlech Associated Anglia Yorkshire Granada Tyne-Tees Border Bonus points for separate authorities running London during the week and at weekends. Double bonus points if the same po… (View Post)

When Jean Barker was made a peer in 1980, she chose to become Baroness Trumpington, because the other plausible place to adopt (Six Mile Bottom) was too silly. How times change. (View Post)

The downside of long tail economics. If a spectacle needs a mass audience for the business case to work, public sensibilities matter and you can't be too gross. Once the big profits come from fi… (View Post)

Hasn't it always been the case that a significant slice of humanity has been pretty inhumane? There are differences from a business point of view (putting it on global pay-per-view, instead of i… (View Post)