I was in Barcelona last weekend. One of the world’s best cities. It also happened to be the opening weekend of Melania, the new documentary about Melania Trump, and the promotion was impossible to miss. A massive billboard dominated Plaça de Catalunya. Every bus stop seemed to have her face on it. Amazon money, very … Read more
Enshittification “Enshittification” is Cory Doctorow’s brutal but accurate term for the slow rot that takes hold of online platforms. The pattern is always the same: Each stage involves luring people in, monetising them, and once the monopoly is secure, squeezing every last drop out of the system. Amazon is the textbook case. What Amazon looks … Read more
Every year people complaining about Christmas starting earlier every year starts earlier. I get that people get a bit huffy when Christmas starts in mid-October. Personally I don’t mind it because if our stock is in store in October it means we will get paid for it before Christmas. For our biggest stockists if the … Read more