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Mysterious mascots & political glory boys
By now we should be starting to feel that frisson of excitement as the Olympics draws ever closer. Instead, the event is polarising the nation's opinions more and more day by day - particularly as the event's bizarre branding becomes prominent. Are we actually trying to make people laugh, asks Basement Jack?
03 May 2012Retail and hospitality: playthings of political posturing
Far too often when the Government-types at Westminster want to mount their high horses for some quasi-ideological crusade, it's the economy's engine room - retail and hospitality - that is targeted for implementing headline-motivated public policy. Wouldn't they be better served cleaning up their own back yards, asks Basement Jack?
04 April 2012Career suicide by way of social media? LMAO!
It's quite possible that you, like an increasing number of people in the nation's working population, are inadvertently doing your future career major damage by way of your social media presence. Are you really in control of what the world knows about you, asks Basement Jack?
01 March 2012A retail handle for economic shambles
According to the coalition government, our country should be looking to develop a John Lewis economy while working to avoid the Pret a Manger phenomenon. Basement Jack is wondering whether tippex privileges should be withdrawn from a couple of senior politicians.
01 February 20122012: the end of the world as we know it?
The Mayans, Nostradamus and a legion of internet crazies have all concluded that this year will be our last trip around the sun. Really it has been a slippery slope since the demise of Woolies, says Basement Jack.
12 January 2012‘tis the season to be trollied
There's a great deal of negativity going into the festive period and in an uncharacteristic show of cheer Basement Jack reminds us all that despite the nightmare scenarios there's a lot to look forward to...particularly after a couple of glasses of yuletide rocket fuel.
30 November 2011The lunatics are advising the asylum
Such were the levels of incredulity at suggestions in government that the right to claim unfair dismissal should be scrapped that Basement Boss himself came down from his thunder cloud to mock the berks responsible.
02 November 2011All the news that’s new and improved
There's simply no way that the British public can go on with the current unrelenting avalanche of bad news. Thankfully bosses in TV Land have apparently come to the same conclusion and are discussing some interesting notions, writes Basement Jack.
30 September 2011A month is a long time in retail
Few people can have predicted the UK's brief but violent descent into civil unrest last month but it's good to know that even in these dark days the spark of innovation burns brightly (if somewhat unconvincingly), writes Basement Jack.
09 September 2011A career in poll dancing
In an age increasingly coloured by the clamour of social media and usergenerated nonsense, polls and surveys are meat and drink for a population increasingly willing to share an opinion, writes BASEMENT JACK.
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