Category Archives: Journalism

OK, I just finished off a piece for the New Statesman on the uses of heresy with the following sentence: “You say ‘homoousios’ and I say ‘homoiousios’ but we are each trying to get the other to say ‘uncle’.” I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have been meaning for years to put an archive of old New Statesman columns online. Now I find that the paper has done it, which proves that idleness pays. But, dammitall, what a genius I had in those days! Continue reading →

Teresa Nielsen Hayden has a piece up about the tendency of media elites to conspire against the general public. It’s full of penetrating good sense, as you would expect, but it misses a couple of points which seem obvious from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

For reasons I don’t entirely understand, my mother-in-law has had a gossip website in Australia named after her. As if any member of her family would gossip! She is in fact a godmother of the founder and proprietor; though “Crikey” … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Geoffrey Wheatcroft has a wonderful piece in the Guardian today on Lord and Lady Black. He is funny both about their social pretensions, which were indeed comic and life-enhancing, and their fanatical American nationalism, which was distinctly less life-enhancing. As … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Saturday Financial Times is an unfailing pleasure. It offers all the pleasures of journalism: enlightenment, entertainment, and the occasional tingle of outrage all over. This normally comes from the How to Spend It section, apparently edited by the last … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Readers with a long memory for embarrassment will flinch at the words “Clark Cook County” — the Guardian’s attempt to swing the 2004 presidential election by organising a letter-writing campaign to a the voters of a marginal district of Ohio. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Tidying my hard drive, I found a wormseye from earlier this month. So I will put it here, as well: Worm’s Eye, Mon 2 Oct 06 In the house of an old doctor I found I book called “Patients as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It looks to me as if the worm has merely moulted, as nematodes will: I will write weekly1 on the Guardian’s main comment site2 instead. I am still going to miss my weekly chats with Ros Taylor, though. There is … Continue reading → Continue reading →