Articles By: Leah Kayles

Don’t be a Twit, stay social media-savvy

Don’t be a Twit, stay social media-savvy

Ah, how the world has changed. It wasn’t so long ago that, if you were applying for a job, the most you had to do beyond researching the role and tidying up your CV was to make sure your shoes were clean, your hair was tidy and there were no stray bogies hanging around your [...]

Merry Christmas from Brass

Merry Christmas from Brass

It’s almost here… time to get those chestnuts roasting and prepare that bird for stuffing, because old Saint Nick is coming! To see you on your merry way, we’re sending you some extra special festive wishes via the medium of those ever-popular awkward family holiday photos. Enjoy! Have a happy holiday and see you all [...]

Has Movember outgrown itself?

Has Movember outgrown itself?

Have you noticed an increase in the amount of hairy upper lips in your office/on public transport/behind the counter of your local latte-serving establishment recently?  Well, unless you live in Shoreditch or Chorlton, it’s probably down to Movember. As a female of the speices, all this increase in upper-lip activity got me thinking about the [...]

What’s in a name? Google+ and our online identities.

What’s in a name? Google+ and our online identities.

PinkPants19 on YouTube, @HotTatas on Twitter and FeistyHamster 5 on Flickr – just a few of the pseudonyms I go by when going about my business on the world wide interweb. I don’t, I made them up. Precisely because to link my pseudonyms with my real name could bring myself and my workplace into serious [...]

No such thing as society? Social media and the UK riots.

No such thing as society? Social media and the UK riots.

The rioting of the past week has sparked debate on a hundred and one different topics, from education and policing, to parenting and of course, social media. With BBM (Blackberry Messenger) revealed early on as a tool used to privately and securely plan rioting and looting, social media was quickly pinpointed as a malevolent force [...]

Brass high five: unsexy music videos

With the debate around OTT sexiness in the media still going strong, and with music videos facing crackdown over sexualised content, we thought it high time to redress the balance with some serious unsexiness. So, turn off that Rhianna vid and get ready for a not so hot Brass High Five of music videos, guaranteed [...]

Brass Friday five: inventions

Brass Friday five: inventions

Welcome one and all to the last ever Brass Friday Five. Yep, you heard right, last ever!! But wipe those tears away, because you’ll still get your fix of tenuously linked items cobbled together in some sort of a list arrangement with our brand new Brass High Fives, coming soon. The main difference is the [...]

Super Injunctions and social media

Super Injunctions and social media

The garden fence is global As almost everyone knows by now and presumably much to his distress, Ryan Giggs was granted a Super Injunction to prevent the publication of allegations that he had an affair with Imogen Thomas, a former Big Brother contestant. However, Giggs soon discovered that you can’t gag the general public, and [...]

The Brass bike challenge!

The Brass bike challenge!

Last weekend on a cloudy Saturday morning, five Brasscals set off on a biking challenge, taking the Way of the Roses route. 175m… 12 hours of riding… 1.268 vertical miles… 10,000 burnt calories… 4 punctures (all belonging to the same bike) 3 cathedrals… 2 seas (North and Irish)… 2 counties (Lancashire and Yorkshire)… 1 bout [...]

Brass Friday five: marketing clichés

A mere two episodes into the new series of The Apprentice, and we’ve been treated to a veritable feast of cheesy clichés and toe-curling marketing sayings already. “Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there’s footsteps on the moon” declared one eager young entrepreneur in episode one this Tuesday. This particular business woman [...]