Monday, 23rd February 2009   Story:  Uniqlo invades Selfridges and British troops march on Parliament.   Uniqlo have just opened a menswear concession inside Selfridges. Since its UK launch in 2001 it has opened, closed and opened at various locations in London, but this is its first store within a store.  

Wednesday, 18th February 2009   Story:    “Japan declares war on Scotland!” (Front page headline of the Boisdale Telegraph)   Today was a long one, I was in the office from 0730 until just after 2300. It began with an interview with Lord Malloch-Brown (Secretary of State) in the FCO, we then went on to get…

Thursday, 12th February 2009   Story:    Drugs, Trains & the Olympics   Drugs   Marijuana use and/or arrests for its use are apparently on the rise in Japan, and there seems to be a big gap between what may be seen as students’ social use of the drug and police enforcement of the law. Whereas…

Wednesday, 03rd February 2009   Story:    Four of them and four of us.   0630 and four of us headed to Cambridge, in two separate cars, equipped with one ENG camera and three mini DV cameras. We were on a mission to get some footage of four North Koreans, from the Workers Party, who were…

Friday, 30th January – Monday 02nd February 2009  Story: Davos 2009 Well we turned up late and then only just, after much deliberation about whether we would come at all, accreditation trouble, Japanese PM attendance doubts and our own cost issues. Yes, as we left London for the snowy slopes of Switzerland our company had…