MEDIA: JACK - AN EXPERT'S VIEW. Peter Thomson says Jack might be the title for him, if it stopped trying to be all things to all men.

James Brown is obviously from my generation. As I go through different life stages he pops up and produces a magazine for me. Jack has resurrected our sporadic sybaritic relationship.

From a macro perspective, let's hope that it shakes up the increasingly dull men's sector in the way that Glamour raised the ante in the women's.

How many more articles can be published/ commissioned about getting pissed in Blackpool/Warsaw/Hamburg, getting a six-pack stomach in 15 days/four weeks/one month/ten minutes or finding that elusive G spot? The sector has stood still for too long and everyone knows what happens to creations that fail to evolve.

The strength of Jack is its diversity, which makes it ideally suited to the two-minute society which we inhabit because it's an easy dip-in read. But which bits of this dynamic pot pourri do I think work? All the bits that you don't expect to see in a traditional men's magazine I thought were wonderful - possibly just because they were refreshing. It's not my fault that my expectation levels of men's magazines have been so well managed.

My highlights here were the wildlife photographs, and the short (football) story. The other bits that worked were James Brown's traditional areas of strength - the silly bits (time waster letter) and articles bringing an original perspective ('TV dissected' about The Office). The elements that didn't ...