I finished college at twenty-two. I was going to do six months training on Fleet Street, which was the mecca of competitive journalism. I sat in on the Daily Express, and I enjoyed it so much, I thought, I gotta have a job here, just to learn. Continue reading
Thomson Reuters boss Tom Glocer has a frank posting from Sun Valley (your own private Idaho). Glocer, who was based in London until recently, is now back in the US and tells it like it is on the real value of the “special relationship”:
The US has pursued a unilateralist approach to world affairs over the past seven years (if one ignores the strong-arming of super ally and “lapdog” the United Kingdom which all but cost Tony Blair his position). Continue reading
Lara Pawson, currently a writer in residence at the University of Witwatersrand, has a chapter out in a new book edited by Kenyan author, Rasna Warah. Don’t judge it by the cover (unless, of course, you really LOVE the cover). Here’s what she sent me:
It’s a very readable anthology featuring some of East Africa’s best-known writers, thinkers and “developmentalists”, such as Binyavanga Wainaina (who regularly features in the Mail & Guardian) and … er, an English woman from East London. My own chapter originally appeared in Radical Philosophy (a journal also worth reading and available at www.radicalphilosophy.com). Continue reading
My friend Charlotte Hume started blogging at exactly the same time I did. My blog is a series of ‘grumpy old man’ rants in the direction of journalism and new media.
Hers was an attempt to engage other parents with the problems of making her 7-year-old son, Freddie, eat his vegetables — an attempt that would run through the vegetable alphabet tracking progress along the way. Continue reading