Category Archives: Journalism

Today’s Telegraph splashes on the news that the NHS is running out of heroin: Chiron, the firm that supplies the NHS, has suspended production while it tries to sort out problems with the flu vaccine it makes. Apparently the NHS … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Justin Arundale, the Independent’s first (and best) librarian, told me in the early Nineties that the company was making more than Continue reading →

Here is a real oddity: a morally informed, grown-up story in the Sunday Times that is not by Ferdy Mount or John Cornwell. Janice Turner points out that most of the story simply shows the morals of Chat! magazine: The … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just had my invitation to the Features party …. Continue reading →

Readers of the Spectator this week will have learned from Stephen Glover’s column that the whole Blunkett/Fortier affair came out because a secretary in Blunkett’s office has been conducting an affair of her own with a senior executive in News … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“Kimberley Quinn” is a name free of sin: “Kimberley Fortier” was naughtier. Continue reading →

Someone who works in Downing Street gave me a copy of a speech that had really impressed him. It turned out to be Carl Bildt’s recent speech in Berlin. I used to know Bildt slightly when he was the smartass … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I can’t resist this, a response to the latest wormseye. So? Am I stupid or something? This guy doesn’t make much sense. By the time he finishes rambling I don’t know which side he’s on. He can’t dpo anything top … Continue reading → Continue reading →

What does Google know about the London Review of Books that we should? Continue reading →