Category Archives: Journalism

This just appeared in my inbox: Dear Andrew Brown, A friend has just sent me your review of Nature via Nurture, in the April 20th Mail on Sunday. I am the daughter B F Skinner put in a box, but … Continue reading → Continue reading →

sounds to me like a contradiction that can only be resolved in science fiction: that’s to say, I find great temperamental similarities between programmatic technolibertarians and 60s trots, so I dislike both. Both of them want a universe ruled by … Continue reading → Continue reading →

With Charles Nevin, Liv O’Hanlon, and Richard Dowden, and Penny Mansfield, old Indie friends and their spouses: in fact Richard and Penny more or less have to stay married, since she runs One to One, which used to be known … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m haunted by an item in the Mail‘s “Ephraim Hardcastle” diary. It says that Jon Snow, the newsreader, is having his memoirs published by HarperColllinsInterCap, and this is embarrassing because of his views on Murdoch. However, HarperCollins offered him Continue reading →

I see that Ros Taylor has linked to this site from the Guardian’s travel section. I had better put some travel journalism up here, then. Give me half an hour, will you? I’d do it at once, but I was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Even when I was very young and in a terrible hurry I don’t think I ever wrote anything quite this savage. I certainly never got it published. But in those days the web didn’t exist. Continue reading →

Well, the morning was rolling along fine, until I had a perfectly classic conversation with an editor. She started by saying “I really love the piece”, and within ten minutes had got to “The boxes are fine. We can keep … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This winter London is full of men called Ian who think they’re editing the New Yorker. In December, Ian Katz launched the Guardian’s page of little essays, Short Cuts. “Write as if you were doing something for Talk of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sometimes I wonder, in numbed astonishment, how anyone is supposed to believe the stuff that comes out of the Bush White House. It had never occurred to me that there was a practical answer to this questioon. Here is part … Continue reading → Continue reading →