Why we stopped trusting elites

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/nov/29/why-we-stopped-trusting-elites-the-new-populism

How a good review can destroy a restaurant

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/nov/28/you-need-to-prepare-yourselves-how-a-good-review-can-destroy-a-restaurant

Break out the blue paint! Will James Cameron’s Avatar sequel tank?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/26/break-out-the-blue-paint-is-james-cameron-avatar-sequel-going-to-tank

Rise in gambling ad spend fuels fears over impact on children

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/24/rise-in-gambling-ad-spend-fuels-fears-over-impact-on-children

The £1.5bn total means that gambling adverts account for 8% of the total UK advertising market, which according to market research group Nielsen is valued at £19bn.

It is also more than seven times the annual advertising spend of Proctor & Gamble, the company behind brands including Pampers and Gillette, which is the UK’s biggest single advertiser – and 150 times the £10m that gambling firms give via a voluntary levy to GambleAware, the main recipient of funds for addiction treatment and research.

Facebook should heed the lessons of internet history

https://www.economist.com/business/2018/11/24/facebook-should-heed-the-lessons-of-internet-history

The charge of the chatbots: how do you tell who’s human online?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/18/how-can-you-tell-who-is-human-online-chatbots

Butch Cassidy and Princess Bride scriptwriter William Goldman dies aged 87

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/16/butch-cassidy-and-princess-bride-scriptwriter-william-goldman-dies-aged-87

"Nobody Knows Anything"

Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more powerful

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2018/11/15/across-the-west-powerful-firms-are-becoming-even-more-powerful

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Spitting Image creator says times are right for US revival

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/nov/14/spitting-image-creator-says-times-are-right-for-us-revival

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppets_(TV_series)

Billboards are an old but booming ad medium

https://www.economist.com/business/2018/11/08/billboards-are-an-old-but-booming-ad-medium

Where the streets have no change: how buskers are surviving in cashless times

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/nov/08/where-the-streets-have-no-change-how-buskers-are-surviving-in-cashless-times

HBO will lead AT&T’s challenge to Netflix

https://www.economist.com/business/2018/11/03/hbo-will-lead-at-and-ts-challenge-to-netflix

Big Tech’s sell-off ~ The Economist

https://www.economist.com/business/2018/11/03/big-techs-sell-off

Business booms and busts follow a pattern. They start with an exciting change in the economy. Managers and investors collectively create a story about it, which begins as an explanation, then morphs into an extrapolation, and then into an exaggeration. Eventually the data contradict the narrative, boom turns to bust, and a bout of austerity follows. A rout in internet firms’ share prices since August has led plenty of people to ask if the tech industry is experiencing this sequence of hope, hubris and hurt for the second time in two decades. The answer is: to a degree, yes. The level of hype is particularly high, and some of the numbers are decidedly soft. That matters because tech firms are now so big and so spendthrift that a slowdown could damage the economy.