Category Archives: Journalism

Hunter Thompson is back from the grave, and writing1 something fun to read for the first time in — what? — fifteen years. Still, all his years lying in a vodka-soaked crypt, drifts of cocaine crunching everytime he twitched in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Times obit of Glenda Lee Slagge was clearly written by a disciple, as these extracts show: TO ACHIEVE the title of First Lady of Fleet Street, which Lynda Lee-Potter was not alone in having bestowed upon her, a woman … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I believe that Cory Doctorow lives in London now. But he doesn’t seem to have picked up much English: “These LED-illuminated, battery-powered, motion triggered toilet seats are bad-ass” he writes today. Continue reading →

Guardian readers in this country obviously get a kick out of watching Richard Dawkins, Antonia Fraser, and so on pleasuring themselves about the barbarity of Republicans. We have had a further kick from the Usenet-quality abuse which greeted this from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sometimes, to tell a story, an editor just needs to step out of the way. The Guardian’s op-ed page made a great catch with this rant, originally printed by David Horowitz, and warmly endorsed by Melanie Phillips. Among the key … Continue reading → Continue reading →

.. to bribe or twist, thank God, the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do Unbribed, there’s no occasion to. Or so I have always thought. However, I got rung this morning by the Daily Express, owned by … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I didn’t post much last week because I was working on London, making a radio programme on the police. It’s not utter crap. It may even be better than that. In any case, it goes out on Thursday evening at … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just time to note that Robin McKie’s profile of Richard Dawkins in yesterday’s Observer was one of the most frustrating cuttings jobs I have ever read. What really teed me off was this “He has maintained his fusillades of anti-cleric … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I know they do things differently on Fox news; I know this report comes from Tulsa, Oklahoma where, again, things are different from Saffron Walden. Even so, if a candidate for the United States Senate told me he favoured “the … Continue reading → Continue reading →