adrian monck

Month: August 2007

  • Entertainment journalism

    The Britney Spears Allure story has attracted a fair bit of attention but I was slightly gobsmacked to see this admission in one comment piece: Britney, pop star and mother-of-the-year candidate, apparently agreed to pose for the cover of Allure and to sit for an interview with writer Judith Newman. For four days Newman chased…

  • Vacation news

    This blog is going on holiday for a fortnight. Back at the end of August for more of the same. But hopefully better – btw if you don’t like this blog, subscribe now and I’ll write less as it’s obviously what people want!

  • Planning for defeat in Basra

    So the question is, will there be an election before or after our defeat in Iraq? In all the recent posturing from Mark Malloch Brown about the changing nature of the UK/US relationship, you may have missed the fact that a Republican administration that is leaving office can hardly feel minded to paint a British…

  • Fin-in-the-Watergate: crisis of trust rocks tabloid news

    The Sun got itself well and truly stung. Us TV types look forward to a full independent inquiry into how the paper was fooled and how it carried the hoax forward to its readers. OK, so we won’t be holding our breath.