If there were two places in my first years at boarding school that I naturally sought as sanctuary from the quasi-institutionalized feral rough and tumble that we were subjected to, one would have been the Art School and the other the School Library. The library was large and very well stocked by any standards of […]

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George Orwell once likened advertising to the rattling of a stick in a swill bucket. I can think of plenty of friends of mine who might strongly disagree with him – for personal or professional reasons – but he may well have been on to something…once again. At the very least his frase invokes a […]

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