Notes and Comments: No. 2

NOTES:

Here Henry Porter takes apart Tony Blair’s arguments for ID cards.

A Common Good idea? Well, yes, if only.

Sometimes it seems that ‘marketing’ is a concept designed to prevent people from getting hold of what they want. I have often wondered why, for example, it is so hard to buy winter clothes in the winter when all the clothes shops seem to be stocking summer stuff. As Kathryn Hughes says in this article, the same seems to apply to the book trade.

COMMENTS:

Ever decreasing circular formats

My comment:

I had loads of 'free' CD-Rom discs from computer mags. Now we have a seemingly endless supply of mug mats, drinks coasters or whatever you want to call them.
I suppose if you really wanted to ponce it up you could give your chums their cup of designer coffee resting on a 'classic album' CD.
BTW my current cup of plain black coffee is resting on a 'Computer Shopper Top 100 Programs' CD from June 1996.