{"id":1560,"date":"2005-06-16T09:58:01","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T13:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2005-06-16T09:58:01","modified_gmt":"2005-06-16T13:58:01","slug":"prosopamnesiac-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1560","title":{"rendered":"Prosopamnesiac triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"

To Lambeth palace, for the Archbishop’s lecture<\/a> on press ethics: mine being judged in need of improvement.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n

This was followed by the sort of party when I find myself talking to someone who clearly knows who I am, and to whom I would clearly have a lot of old-friendly backchat to make, if only I could recognise their sodding face. This one was the first time that someone I don’t recognise has not just started talking on thebasis of familiarity, but grabbed me and said “Andrew! We haven’t kissed!”. Attractive woman talking to Jane Williams did exactly that. I cheerfully kissed her on both cheeks and was sucked into the conversation. Jane Williams made a joke about being completely unable to remember what we had said at the last bash, said that I had woken a few days later convinced that we’d been talking about worms. Oh well, she said, everyone was a little drunk at that party. Well, I wasn’t as drunk as Dr Vallely, I said. The pretty woman who had kissed me remonstrated, and at this point I recognised. She was Mrs Vallely, Christine Morgan, the woman who currently runs all the BBC’<\/span>s religious broadcasting; and I had just made a joke about her husband’s being pissed to the wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury.<\/p>\n\n

Anyway, about my career in print<\/em> journalism …<\/p>\n\n

1<\/sup> along with those of Ruth Gledhill, Mary Ann Sieghart, Andreas Whittam Smith, Jonathan Petre, Steve Bates, Austen Ivereigh, Christine Morgan, and, oddest, Theresa May, MP.<\/span> It was notable that no editors felt their ethics needed improvement, not even the editor Church Times.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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