One of the advantages of starting a blog post by choosing a photograph or two and then finding something to write that can go alongside, is that the whole issue of images is sorted.
If you start with the words, though, however vast your archive of photos, there may not be anything that fits and it’s not always easy to take a bespoke photo, even if you have an idea that would work.
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Perhaps it’s just me, but the headline below (on the BBC website the other day) conjured some bizarre images. 
As I wondered what a “UK world leader” would be like and whose dna the scientists would mix and match, there was one name that kept recurring.
Fortunately, the somewhat depressing image of the UK taking over the world with Churchill at the helm was brightened by a mental soundtrack of Tim Curry singing “I can make you a man.”
(For those who want to know the real story of the UK’s genetic research project, it’s here. As for me, I think I’ll go and re-watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show.)
News websites change rapidly, so one headline that particularly caught my attention – “Clegg attacks Tory knife crime plan” – is no longer to be found. I’d made a note of it, though, as that badly chosen verb “attack” bothered me.
For a bored subeditor, making up punny headlines can be fun, but I think there’s a point when serious news should be treated seriously. (True, my post title is slightly frivolous, but this is a personal blog not an official news provider.)
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Two snippets from the news have caught my eye this week.
Firstly, I gather from this tweet from the Independent that I must have missed something about new government policies on euthanasia:
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Cricket Tests are renowned for how long they last, but the BBC news to the right seems to imply they might go on for weeks: if Anderson was the fourth to take 300 wickets in the first Test, then three others had done so before him.
Just how long does it take for 1200+ wickets to be taken?
Elsewhere on the BBC last week I read their College of Journalism blog post: We all love lists, but are they all journalism?
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