Category Archives: Journalism

Perish the Thought (1)

Posted on October 17, 2003 by acb

One of the questions asked of any journalist applying for a visa to the USA is this: Have you ever been afflicted with a communicable disease of public health significance or a dangerous physical or mental disorder, or ever been … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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An outburst of piety.

Posted on September 27, 2003 by acb

October is shaping up to be phenomenally busy. I have finally finished a troublesome book outline, and can get that off. I have to profile Redmond O’Hanlon, Robert Silvers, and possibly Marvin Minsky for the Guardian. I have promised a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Feedback

Posted on September 26, 2003 by acb

Last week’s Wormseye column drew quite a range of feedback from around the world. Here’s some of it, with comments. The same thing is going up on the Guardian’s site, but they can’t do CSS so I thought I would … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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good journalism

Posted on September 24, 2003 by acb

You need solid journalistic skills to run a first class blog, as well as application. That’s why there are so few of them. But I now believe that The Whiskey Bar is the best and most savage political journalism I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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distance learning

Posted on September 13, 2003 by acb

Worked like hell yesterday writing up the Anna Lindh murder, for the Evening Standard (twice, because it had to be entirely rewritten after she had died), and then the Times. On top of that I wrote a column for the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Idleness, stupidity and cowardice

Posted on September 6, 2003 by acb

These are, when I come to think of it, the main reasons for my lack of success in life. I’ve just finished two long magazine pieces, and should have spent yesterday writing a book outline. Instead, I sat down to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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A cliché walks

Posted on September 2, 2003 by acb

I had occasion yesterday to ring Colm Toibin in Dublin. I asked him a fairly complicated question about the historical background to modern Irish self-understanding. He paused for about 30 seconds, and then spoke in well-structured paragraphs, arranged around a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Absolutely Fabulous

Posted on September 1, 2003 by acb

I didn’t make this up, honest.Early this year, just before my son Alfie was born, I had lunch with one of my old bosses, a very glamorous mother of two. She had some advice for me about giving birth, woman … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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a test of readership

Posted on August 29, 2003 by acb

I have got a perfectly horrible story up on the Guardian’s web site this morning. It’s not original, of course: I found a pointer on Rafe Coburn’s site, I think. But it’s news to the English; and I’ll be interested … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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another publication

Posted on August 22, 2003 by acb

one of the reasons I started this blog was that I was doing very little journalism at the time, being wrapped up like laocöon in worms, tiny, horny, hermaphroditic worms. So I needed to keep up my chops on short … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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