Category Archives: Journalism

There is an extraordinary and very thought-provoking piece in1 the Atlantic magazine this month about the sexual habits of American teenage girls. It seems to be widely reported, and may even be true, that they offer blowjobs as we used … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In 1980, Jeffrey Bernard had been a hopeless alcoholic for fifteen years but he had only turned professional seven years before, when he started a weekly column on his life in the Spectator. The magazine had hired him as television … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If I had not drunk with her on occasion I would not have believed this obit of Sandy Fawkes could be truthful, but the Coach and Horses really was like that. Only the Telegraph can do this sort of obituary … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve been exchanging emails with my old chum, who laboured by my side for years to keep upright the bar of the Angel in Old Street; he tells me I’m writing a book on what’s happened to the Left provisionally … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Analysis programme on American religion goes out next Thursday, 29 December, at 8.30 GMT, and can be heard for a week thereafter by any of this blog’s remarkably far-flung readers who have broadband. The cast ranges from a former … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have been totally consumed by the radio programme I am making — it goes out on the 29th of December and the 1st of January: the details will he here. It’s about the role played by religion in American … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This is offered in the spirit of the playground pusher: try it, little girl, you might like it. The Worm’s eye View column is normally available only to Wrap subscribers. On the other hand, there is a promotion on at … Continue reading → Continue reading →

And it’s not even my bandwidth but the Guardian’s. I read Slashdot with the comment threshold at four, which cuts out most of the crap, but even there you find someone complaining that there was no mention of Richard Stallman. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I was bewildered by Vic Keegan’s article on gmail as a word processor; I should have been illuminated. It shows how many journalists still use a computer as a typewriter with fancy formatting. He wants a fast and lightweight program … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There was a glorious story in an Australian-owned tabloid about two teachers meeting in Queensland, where brothels have just been legalised. One of them had gone as a customer; the other was working there in her spare time. I don’t … Continue reading → Continue reading →