Category Archives: Journalism

The new Guardian gets better as you go into it. Perhaps that’s another way of saying that it works better with fewer stories on the page. I hate the front. Making allowances for the fact that all readers hate all … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Oliver asked me to post the Benny Morris profile. It’s here, as a PDF. Continue reading →

I had written an entirely different wormseye, about choosing Muslim leaders. this this bubbled up, and I’m not sure whether to use it instead. Do any of you have opinions? (serendipitously, I find on Brad deLong an illustration of my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Here are the profiles that a quick prod round the archives found, not really in chronological order. Eva Hoffman Mary Midgley Stewart Brand Tam Dalyell Brian Aldiss Steve Rose Evelyn Fox Keller Bob Conquest Elizabeth Jane Howard Redmond O’Hanlon John … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Trivers is out. It will be the last profile I do for the Guardian since that slot is a casualty of the redesign; and I’m glad it was so much fun. It was one of the best jobs, perhaps the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This week’s Wormseye (below the fold) an angry reaction from at least one reader, Allan Hodgson. I’ve moved it out of comments in a Voltairean spirit. I could not disagree more with Andrew Brown’s comments in a Worm’s Eye View … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The many fans of Stephen Glover will treasure today’s column in the Independent. He starts with a long nostalgic look at the old days as a leader writer on the Daily Telegraph: ” … There were at least 10 writers, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Looking at Tony Howard’s piece on women bishops in the Times today, I noticed a rack of google ads down one side. This was the bottom one …. Continue reading →

Are up at Salon if anyone’s interested. Not very coherent, but not notably wrong, either. I do wish I had been closer to the action. I know it sounds callous, but that’s what journalists do. I want to see, not … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Possibly also classed under patriotism. God knows the British press is dreadful at times. But I don’t think that even the Daily Mail could publish this particular flavour of crap. If it could, surely someone there would have been sacked … Continue reading → Continue reading →