Since it’s Easter Monday, it seems appropriate to share the lyric of “Search and Destroy“, words by Clive James, music … More
Category: journalism
Cartooning at the New Yorker
The Cartoons Editor of the New Yorker looks at about 1,000 cartoons a week, and passes on 50 to the Editor, who will use about 17.
Nosing out the Armstrong scandal
Perhaps it’s coincidence that the two journalists who have pursued Lance Armstrong most assiduously – David Walsh and the former … More
Watching the door
I was in Belfast and Derry last year on holiday, and while I was there read Kevin Myers’ fairly recent … More
‘Smart work for civilisation’
Controlled anger is one of the hardest registers for a journalist. It is the thinnest of tightropes between ranting, on … More
Fitting up the news
Thanks to my colleague Tomi Isaacs for alerting me to Charlie Brooker’s fine parody of the typical television news report. … More
Long distance cricket
I followed most of the Ashes, the one-dayers against Australia, and the Champions Trophy games via the ball by ball … More
Idling away
On Friday I picked up An Apology for Idlers, the Penguin mini-edition (or ‘Great Ideas‘, to use their label) of … More
Return journey
I thought about writing something here when the journalist and novelist Gordon Burn died, quite young, earlier this summer, but … More
Dog bites man
When I was a trainee journalist, we went through that exercise where we worked out what news was. “Dog bites … More