Category Archives: Journalism

It is a mystery to me why “Billmon” is not the best known American lefty blogger. I did actually urge the Guardian to recruit him at one stage. I can’t understand why newspapers don’t reprint stuff like this. UPDATE anyone … Continue reading → Continue reading →

24 hours and normal service has already resumed: I am sitting at a desk in Essex, faffing, eating too much and resisting the thought of walks because, after all, where could I go that was new or interesting? But a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Three journalists interviewed me in the last week: the last one came completely at random, as the result of a vox pop on the weather in Uddevalla; someone from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney tracked me down in a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It really is remarkable how thoroughly the Telegraph has abandoned its support for the war. This must reflect a deeper disillusion within the British Army. There are two small items today which are very telling. One if the readers’ poll … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Reading Melanie Phillips denouncing multiculturalism in the LA Times, an irony occurs to me. Her stuff falls into a very familiar category of bad foreign correspondence: it sounds perfectly credible unless you actually live in the country concerned or speak … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sorry that there have been so few entries on here recently. I am off to Sweden for six weeks in a week’s time, and falling behind with work, In particular, I had to do an interview/profile of Nick Humphrey over … Continue reading → Continue reading →

But this tale of apparent plagiarism is very funny. On the other hand, when so much of political discourse consists of repeating “talking points”, I can see that this kind of thing might be easy. Continue reading →

Some of you may have wondered what happened to the grilled cheese sandwich on which appeared an image of the Virgin Mary some years back It was auctioned on Ebay for $28,000 and then seemed to vanish. If you had … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Their monitoring service, from which I found this report of activities in Uzbekistan: Excerpt from report by Uzbek Namangan TV on 29 April [Presenter] Various measures to increase the effectiveness of work aimed at increasing people’s spirituality are being taken … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I was impressed by the arguments put forward on Language Log that the Harvard student whose novel with a silly name has been withdrawn may well be as innocent as she claims. The longest consecutive stretch of plagiarised words from … Continue reading → Continue reading →