Category Archives: Journalism

I posted a version of the Cannibal Blogger piece down the page a little, before sending it off to the Guardian. It got held up there by the spam filters — this seems to happen to my copy quite often … Continue reading → Continue reading →

From feedback for an old Wormseye column: I read with interest your article in the Guardian entitled “A worm’s eye view”, for it never ceases to amaze me how journalists often miss the whole picture, when the hyperbole of sanctimonious … Continue reading → Continue reading →

About three weeks ago, I was asked (along with others) to contribute questions and suggestions for Alan Rusbridger’s interview with Rowan Williams. This morning I was talking to Paul Handley, who is to interview Rusbridger for the Church Times. Do … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Could this (found through John Naughton) be an actually useful Web 2.0 app? I can’t see the use, if you have learned to read and write, of private podcasting, which is the main selling point — essentially, this service is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Thursday night, and for a week thereafter on the web — Analysis on violent Islamism in Britain and what the government is doing about it. UPDATE — the current Analysis — the one you will get if you click on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have written a fairly rude review of Dan Dennett’s new book on God, which will in due course appear in the Guardian. But the piece that the New York Times published on it fills me with sympathy for the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I was trying to remember the circumstances in which Auberon Waugh caused a mob to burn down the British consulate in Rawalpindi — it was one of his favourite stories — and so pulled from the shelves The Spectator anthology … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Two projects for next month: I will make another Analysis programme on what the government’s policy towards domestic Islamic terrorism actually is; and I will produce a longish essay for the Guardian looking at whether it is true – as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A wonderful, grindingly sad story in this week’s New Yorker about teenage mothers in Louisiana. It’s not online — though well worth the cost of the print magazine — but there is an interview with the author on the web … Continue reading → Continue reading →

UPDATE: we can all argue this with even greater authority now that the article has appeared online David Weman said in comments that he was sure the article was silly because Matt Yglesias had said so. Here is actual conclusion … Continue reading →