links for 2009-10-30
Published on 30 October 2009 in Daily Links
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"An email briefing leaked to The Publican shows that students employed by Red Bull were instructed to ‘smuggle’ Red Bull into JD Wetherspoons outlets. They were then asked to take photographs featuring Red Bull cans and tell customers and staff that they have brought it in because they do not like the taste of Monster Energy. The briefing goes on to instruct the students to deny they work for Red Bull." Comical.
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Besides the question of why BBC News always use the same photo of a train on all their railway stories, there’s other questions in this story. Railway franchises which last longer tend to do better (Virgin Trains have come an extremely long way since they were perceived as a national joke in the late 1990s, and Chiltern Trains are universally loved). But if the government wants to micromanage everything, why on earth don’t we just nationalise it all again!
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Rats. If I’d blogged about this when I saw it last week, I could have trumped the Register on this one!