adrian monck

Month: September 2007

  • Two Americas

    David Warsh’s Economic Principals is a thin blogospheric vein of gold. Much recommended. This week, he’s reviewing Daniel Aaron’s memoir The Americanist which concludes: “[I] find myself a citizen of two Americas. One of them is the country of Uncle Sam, an America, in the words of Herman Melville, intrepid, unprincipled, reckless, predatory, with boundless…

  • Big Brother trouble

    The ratings crunch hitting Big Brother has nothing to do with the entertainment possibilities of putting a group of young people in a house and filming them for TV. MTV started doing it back in 1992 with a show called the Real World, and they’re just casting its twentieth series. But MTV is a niche…

  • Off topic: Dates and Apples

    I’m a big fan of Mahmood Al-Yousif’s blog from Bahrain. Occasionally he’ll throw in a little gardening info among the campaigning. Check out, for example, the dates in Mahmood’s back yard. So, with that in mind, I hope you’ll forgive a little off topic information from my own back yard. When we took over the…

  • The new look Google News

    This is what the new Google News UK story box looks like under the new publishing regime. Their local partner is the Press Association (PA). Duplicate deletion, or whatever euphemism you want to find, it’s certainly put PA at the top of the pecking order.