Archived entries: Copywriting

Alastair Cook’s Letter From India

Sometimes you don’t need words. A letter will suffice. Alastair Cook’s letter from India. Tweet

I Want a David Byrne Suit

Manchester’s grey acorn Morrissey was at the Lowry not so long ago complaining about how often he’s mistaken for indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic, award winning chanteuuuuuuse Kd Lang or even a young Stewart Lee. Talking of Stewart Lee – there’s a man that divides opinion. Moist lipped Guardianistas hanging on his every weighted pause while
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Exceptional Copywriting

I was taking a look at the Information Commissioner’s Office blog earlier (as you do). The Sept 3rd post ‘What is Exceptional?’ by Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham made for an interesting read – an exploration of the word exceptional as deployed by the Attorney General in overruling an ICO decision ordering the release of minutes
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Sun-kissed, a Bit Pissed, Copywriting Contemplations

I went on my annual pilgrimage to the Cheltenham Cricket Festival at the weekend. Bliss. There really is no better place to be. And as my beloved Gloucestershire were in the process of being royally decimated, I sat there, sun-kissed, a bit pissed, contemplating. Thinking about what makes cricket such a wonderful game. That it
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Read This, Write Songs, Take Photos

On Friday, the thirteenth of July 1973, Patti Smith gave a reading in memory of Jim Morrison on the roof of underground filmmaker Jack Smith’s loft at Greene Street Canal. It was her own bill, and anyone who was there had come to celebrate Jim Morrison with her. Among them was Lenny Kaye, and although
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