Category Archives: Journalism

Andrea Dworkin has died. Roz Kaveney has taken the occasion to republish a wonderfully cruel and perceptive review, topped and tailed with expressions of decent regret. I can only offer a clerihew, which was written either by me, or Francis … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A story from Private Eye: some weeks ago,. Christopher Booker was in town to write jokes. Not the Sunday Telegraph column: the deliberately funny ones — in this case a Sylvie Krin story about the Royal Nuptials. At lunchtime, he … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Here are the headlines which the British papers that you probably don’t read had on their front pages to mark the Pope’s Death: The Mail on Sunday Camilla will be princess of Wales. Her ex-husband is linked to Sinn Fein … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My most recent Analysis programme went out last night. It will be repeated on Sunday, at 9.30 pm; and can be heard for the next week or so on the web. Continue reading →

Here’s another reason to believe that Billmon is the most skilled journalist among all the regular bloggers. It’s also damn frightening. Continue reading →

I walked round to the Spectator yesterday afternoon to dig out some old cuts of mine from the library. The receptionist/librarian, a pretty girl in her twenties, let me in and handed me a couple of the bound volumes stacked … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Is in the Guardian today. A wonderful photograph by Eamonn McCabe. I can’t bear to read the caption, of course, but I think it’s all right. Continue reading →

Since this is obviously of interest, here are some more quotes that may be in the Analysis programme: Continue reading →

I consider myself bound by at least some of the conventions of journaism here. Specifically, if I have told people I won’t use information when interviewing them, I don’t. But, oh, God, some of the Doctor stories I have come … Continue reading → Continue reading →