The editors' blog

LANDSCAPE, LANGUAGE AND PASSION

~ Posted by Robert Butler, May 21st 2013

HE MADE THE KEYBOARD COOL

~ Posted by Nicholas Barber, May 21st 2013

THE CEO AND THE NOT-SO-COOL QUOTE

~ Posted by Marina Gerner, May 16th 2013

Sometimes a chief executive must hope that an unwise quote from a while back would just curl up and die. Seven years ago, Mike Jeffries, the CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, gave a frank interview to Salon explaining what kind of customers he liked in his stores.

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~ Posted by Robert Butler, May 15th 2013

THE MERIDA MAKEOVER

~ Posted by Kassia St Clair, May 13th 2013

TEN THINGS FROM THE TLS

~ Posted by Robert Butler, May 10th 2013

FERGUSON THE ENTERTAINER

~ Posted by Tim de Lisle, May 8th 2013

Alex Ferguson added one more achievement to his vast collection today: a snap retirement. After botching his first attempt at walking away from Manchester United, he bided his time and got it right, after 11 years—about three times as long as the average premiership manager lasts. In that time, he won six more league titles, one more FA Cup, three League Cups and one Champions League. Not bad for a stay of execution. 

PINK FOR PRESSURE-PRONE BOYS

~ Posted by Nicholas Barber, March 8th 2013

ONLY THE WHALE WAS AWAY

~ Posted by Maggie Fergusson, May 7th 2013

MAYPOLES AND MYSTICS IN THE SUN

~ Posted by Charles Nevin, May 2nd 2013

May, Sun and Spring have arrived in England together, bringing with them those pastoral fancies of dance, song and general cavorting (hey, nonny, no!) that form part of the nation's hazy idea of Englishness. And nowhere better to be on a diamond-bright day than Glastonbury, the Somerset town selected as chief representative of that idea in last year's Olympics opening ceremony.