Category Archives: Journalism

Yesterday I managed to get annual indexes working in my cuttings blog. I only have two years’ worth of columns for the Church Times and part of a winter’s work for the Guardian up there at the moment, because those … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Cary Tennis, Salon’s agony uncle, was responding to a reader (with a four-month-old baby) who wondered whether he should stray with an attractive and flirtatious workmate: “Keep away from her like she’s a vat of dangerous chemicals”. wrote Tennis, which … Continue reading → Continue reading →

An extraordinary piece, mixing gossip and despair, by an Oxford contemporary of Christopher Hitchens, which I found through Electrolite. Continue reading →

Comes from this report in today’s Guardian — Every half-hour for six hours afterwards, the researchers emptied the volunteers’ colostomy bags and tested the contents for a specific gene that had been spliced into the GM soya. I found it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

To the Saffron Walden library last night, to hear Jojo Moyes, who is an ex-Independent colleague married to my friend Charles Arthur, who’s still there. I was the lone male bobbing in a sea of oestrogen. There were two other … Continue reading → Continue reading →

President Bush, of course, is not a junior reporter for the New York Times. So maybe it doesn’t matter if he makes up stories and puts them in the newspaper. After Ronald Reagan, it’s almost a presidential tradition. Michael Kinsley … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In case anyone has wandered over from the Guardian‘s site, I thought I’d put on something to reward them: a quote from Ann Richards, the former governor of Texas, on the crippling effect of oil price rises on the state: … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There’s a survey out from the University of Michiagan, showing that the American public actually understands less about genes and gene therapy than it did in 1990. Actually, what the headline says, nicely illustrating its own point, is that the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

News over the weekend: someone in Paignton has actually supplied six monkeys with typewriters, to see how much and of which authors they’d produce. they got bored — the scientists that is — and stopped after six weeks, but not … Continue reading → Continue reading →