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Dylan Jones

Dylan Jones

An aficionado of all things male and stylish, Dylan Jones has edited GQ magazine since 1999. Previously he had worked at Arena, The Observer and The Sunday Times. He has written a number of books including, iPod Therefore, I Am and Mr Jones’ Rules for the Modern Man.

Dylan Jones: 'I've never heard so many complaints at the Hay Festival that weren't directed at the weather'

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Dylan Jones: 'The problem is that most buzzwords go out of fashion before people get to hear of them'

Saturday, 9 May 2009

The fundamental problem with buzzwords is their lifespan – many of them go out of fashion before most people get to hear of them, and usually before they get the chance to enter the vocabulary. In essence, many are called, but few are chosen. Which makes the Future Lab's job even harder.

Dylan Jones: 'Some people in Hollywood know who Gordon Brown is – but few could pull him out of a line-up'

Saturday, 25 April 2009

Los Angeles might be a long way from Downing Street, although if you ask around the city you'll soon discover that a lot of people here assume no one lives there any more. Downing Street that is, not the City of Angels. For while the G20 generated acres of media coverage in California, the US media simply couldn't believe the UK papers, and imagined there'd been some sort of transatlantic morphing, and that instead of Barack and Michelle Obama stepping down from their plane at Stansted, they had been digitally subsumed into an uncomfortable fusion of JFK and Princess Diana.

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