Monthly Archives: March 2013

Parental influence on their kids’ career choices; poetry; Hull and some sweary stuff

Posted on March 21, 2013 by The editors blog

“They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do”. I remember being shocked when I heard these words intoned by the lugubrious librarian Philip Larkin. I was probably a small child at the … Continue reading →

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I can’t make my mind up so I’ll accept all your job offers. Is that OK with you?

Posted on March 14, 2013 by The editors blog

Last week we celebrated International Women’s Day and, in ironic counterpoint, the press published several stories on the gender pay gap for graduates. Research shows (my God how many times have I started a sentence or prefaced a presentation with … Continue reading →

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Video interviews on the increase as nation shares the pain of distraught Scottish knight

Posted on March 7, 2013 by The editors blog

I thought the Queen had died. We don’t normally announce a day of mourning after a football club has been eliminated from a European competition. In the last 16 please note not the effing Final. But this is the self-styled … Continue reading →

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It was the best of Breakfasts, it was the worst of Breakfasts

Posted on March 5, 2013 by The editors blog

I’m reading the before-she-became-famous Wolf Hall dry run from Hilary Mantel at the moment. It’s called A Place of Greater Safety and it attempts to chronicle the French Revolution by focusing on the lives of the key protagonists. It presages … Continue reading →

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