Monthly Archives: March 2003

This is how it begins

Posted on March 30, 2003 by acb

I don’t normally read much in the _Sunday Times_ but “this”:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-628258,00.html is a first-class, heart-breaking piece of war reporting. It is the story of how some American marines learned to kill Iraqi women and children. What makes it so fine … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The hard life

Posted on March 30, 2003 by acb

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 →

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Author! Author!

Posted on March 30, 2003 by acb

I defy any of you to identify, without using a search engine, the person who said this: bq. “As for me, my mind has long been made up. Getting rid of one side or expelling the other, both are equally … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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more to come

Posted on March 29, 2003 by acb

OK, OK. I can’t get the cuttings blog working properly, and life’s too short to wrestle with CSS ona Saturday morning. So I will post a bunch of stuff from _Conde Nast Traveller_ and _Salon_ tomorrow. Continue reading →

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catching up

Posted on March 29, 2003 by acb

The story I just posted really _was_ the last quarrel I ever had with Anita. We’re friends now, both still married to to other people and living a thousand miles apart; and she really liked “the story”:http://www.darwinwars.com/cuts/oddsnsods/granta/under_the_surface.html I wrote about … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Growing up

Posted on March 29, 2003 by acb

The last quarrel I had with Anita we were sitting in pine needles by one of our favourite lakes. We were both safely married to other people by then, and chancing a reunion for all the tangled family: a picnic … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Keith among the islands

Posted on March 29, 2003 by acb

What you get when you click more was published in the _Independent on Sunday_ as a travel article, on March 15th, 1992. It isn’t, really. Continue reading →

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Eeek!

Posted on March 29, 2003 by acb

I see that Ros Taylor has “linked(Andrew Brown doesn’t post enough travel notes, but when he does, they’re very good)”:http://travel.guardian.co.uk/travelsites/story/0,7631,924953,00.html to this site from the Guardian’s travel section. I had better put some travel journalism up here, then. Give me … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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the balance of forces

Posted on March 26, 2003 by acb

I was talking to “Dr Longley”:http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clifford.longley/ yesterday and the conversation, unavoidably, came round to the war. “I was on the fence”, he said, “until the bloody French pushed me off. Now I think that anything that gets rid of Saddam … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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robust criticism

Posted on March 25, 2003 by acb

Even when I was very young and in a terrible hurry I don’t think I ever wrote anything quite this “savage.”:http://www.soundbitten.com/archives/week_2003_03_23.html#000291 I certainly never got it published. But in those days the web didn’t exist. Continue reading →

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