THE launch of Britain's first interactive television service, Open, was a voguish affair.
This is the home of Ocado, the country's and probably the world's newest online grocery-retailer, whose poster ads featuring yelling children are visible all over the capital.Ocado has all the trappings of a dotcom, bar the formerly voguish appendage to its name.
Moreover, Ecoegg has become a pin-up for the voguish policy of "reshoring", attracting back to Britain manufacturers who had once moved their production offshore.
Officials ignore the potential for innovation in consumer products or services and get seduced by the hype of voguish high-tech sectors.The universal race to create green jobs is the latest example.
Education is the most effective way of wielding the "soft power" that is voguish in foreign-policy circles bringing people round to your point of view without training your guns on them, in other words.
Hence the voguish idea of "living wills", or more amusingly, financial "death panels", which would force banks and regulators to organise themselves so that it is easier to dismember systemically important firms in a crisis.
His new commitment to make it independent is designed to dispel doubts that he was just grandstanding.Politics may explain why the proposed reform has become so voguish, but what matters is whether it would make the NHS work better.
Hello Bank!, with its catchy name and irritating punctuation, represents one of the most voguish trends in banking.
Almond orchards, for instance, are a voguish investment.
Bid blood and private equity Debt threat Child bribe Plenty of risk, not much reward ReprintsDemos, a voguish think-tank, maintains that some bits of the north Newcastle and Gateshead, in particular are enjoying a cultural "brain gain".
The armed forces now talk a lot about flexibility, though this is not so much a voguish notion as a reflection of the difficulty of imagining threats to a country that is almost instinctively pacifist.
