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Category Archives: Journalism
code and prose
I’d be interested to know from any of the developers who read this whether my piece in yesterday’s Guardian made sense.
Posted in Journalism, nördig
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But this story is entirely true
Survivors of the last Lambeth Conference will remember the positively Burmese quality of press organisation. Apparently it was just as bad from the inside: someone working there asked what arrangements had been made to bring to Canterbury the Cardinal who … Continue reading
Posted in God, Journalism
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Pass the sickbag, baby Jesus
Religion’s all right when it doesn’t deal in sentimentality. But much of the religious comment on the Embryo bill has been just disgusting. I would have voted in favour in favour of lowering the abortion limit myself; I fully accept … Continue reading
Posted in God, Journalism
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My contribution to Youtube
I didn’t put this here. Still less did I supply the cheesy title. A friend found it and told me. But I’m quite happy it escaped into the wild: it is the grim bit of my last Analysis programme. Listen … Continue reading
Posted in God, Journalism
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My life is complete
This evening I heard a columnist for the Washington Post explain to a public meeting that “since I came to England, people keep telling me that American journalism is po-faced. I don’t know what po-faced means”
Posted in Blather, Journalism
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Here lies the grave of Castlereagh
Even if Phil Davison’s obit of Robert Vesco in the FT is not up to Byronic standards of brevity and eloquence it is still a fun read: Of all the adjectives used to describe him, Robert Vesco – who has … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism
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The things that Telegraph readers say
Perhaps by coincidence, Damian Thompson was very quiet for a couple of months after I wrote about him reproducing a neo-nazi propaganda story on his Daily Telegraph blog, though he did ring up to say he would never speak to … Continue reading
Posted in British politics, Journalism, War
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Oh Frabjuous Day!
Susan McCarthy, sumac on the Well, has started a blog. She is a wonderfully shrewd and witty observer of animal behaviour, not least when the animal in question is H. Sapiens sapiens though in her hands the second sapiens is … Continue reading
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Beat that, Bishop Dow!
An excellent piece from Rolling Stone of all places about a sort of turbo-charged alpha course. This is more perceptive about the real dynamic of American evangelicalism than you might dare hope: in particular, he gets right the way in … Continue reading
Posted in God, Journalism
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Comment superfluous
Below the fold is a screenshot from the Daily Mail’s coverage of the Max Mosley scandal: this is part of an article by Stephen Glover arguing that the world does not need a privacy law, even though the News of … Continue reading Continue reading
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