Like many people, myself included, playwright and monologue artist Mike Daisey was once a great fan of Apple products, until that is due to his own curiosity he decided to visit the Foxconn factory in China, which employs approximately 450,000 workers and manufactures most of Apple's products.  Why does Apple choose to outsource product manufacturing to a Stalinist State, which...

             Many bloggers to this site are delightfully cynical  about politics, and sceptical about many politicians. That is healthy in a democracy. Nor is it my job to act as shop steward for MPs. I am not a Shop Steward, and my colleagues would not welcome having one. If an MP reaches the point

80mph speed limit ‘risks rise in road deaths and obesity’ Obesity? and a potential rise in obesity due to more people taking advantage of shorter car journeys. Eh? They’re raising the speed limit on motorways for cock’s sake. A motorway journey is not a subsititute for a waddle around to the corner shop for lardy

I haven’t really been to Sunderland very much. My Mum worked there for about a year in the late 1960s, in a shop on Fawcett Street, the main retail street of the town. (It was still a town then, it … Continue reading →

Well, here we go again. After writing nothing for months (resolution: pay more attention to things), I thought we'd start again by looking at my wise predictions for the year gone past: 1. A major national shop will unexpectedly open a branch in Norwich. Right - and wrong. Looking back I couldn't have possible got this oen wrong, but there are a multitude to choose from! 2. City will fac...

A musical mood struck me on the way to the coffee shop this afternoon and upon my return I recorded this song for friends and any one who finds it interesting. I am more than a couple years away from gigging and touring and sitting about studios and given how busy I am with other things I decided to skip the guitar backup since it would take a day to get it up to performance...

Charities urge us to shop till Third World poverty drops, but ‘ethical consumption’ only makes Westerners feel good.

This column is complete and total garbage. I’ve lost count of the number of rows I’ve had about that, many in public, one live on telly, during which the broadcaster Jonathan Maitland said this was a problem of education: if she knew how to shop better she would have been able to afford a more

Dilemma is not only straining shop floor traditions but has the potential to feed wider tensions in society

Hamleys Toyshop in London has changed its signage in response to a campaign against categorisation of toys by gender and sexist stereotypes. In signs all around the shop, from top to bottom, the mention of gender has been removed.