Remarkable articles

• Gabrielle Aplin: The Power of a Christmas John Lewis advert?

  

  The Independent —

  Last year John Lewis’s 30-second Christmas advert featuring a little boy jiggling his legs in frustration, staring out of the window and harrumphing in the agony of anticipation for his present (wait for it!) to his parents to be given was as successful a commercial for the department store as for the music it included.

  
  08/11/2012

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• Will David Cameron's approval kill Lana Del Rey's cool?

  

  G2 —

  The prime minister has revealed that he's a fan of Lana Del Rey. So is this the kiss of death for the up-and-coming singer? One of these days, someone will write a novel about David Cameron. One of those frothy comedies you buy at railway station outposts of WH Smith. The kind with embossed writing on the cover and a photo of someone in a business suit clutching a baby and an iPad and talking on...

  
  09/01/2012

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• Why is every Christmas TV advert like a nail gun to the tearducts?

  

  New Statesman —

  We're looking at you, Coca Cola, John Lewis, Asda, Morrisons and Very. Here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody's having fun. Well, it isn't, and they aren't, but it might as well be. For this weekend, all the Christmas advertising campaigns launched. "Holidays are coming", chant the perennially joyful Coca-Cola singers in Rainbowland as a giant truck snarls down Main Street, cruelly failing to add...

  
  12/11/2012

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