adrian monck

Month: October 2007

  • Irwin Stelzer, big shot?

    Much speculation in the Guardian around lively septuagenarian Irwin Stelzer, and the influence he does or doesn’t carry. Having just returned from the land of the free, I think it’s worth recalling that Stelzer ranks only modestly in the neo-con league, behind such luminaries as Norman Podhoretz. Last Thursday night, I went to hear Norman…

  • Off topic: The Frick

    Managed to get to the Frick today, probably my all time favourite art gallery. Among the countless gems, two great portraits, linked by green damask (the images below do them little justice btw). First up, one everyone knows – Holbein’s Thomas More (is the plodding Thomas Cromwell opposite really by the same hand?), painted in…

  • No comment: political news

  • The future of the evening news – grey but rosy?

    In New York I managed to catch up with an old chum in network news and get a peak at the new NBC/MSNBC set (which is pretty impressive, especially for the back office co-ord stuff), and which will also bring the news channel from Secaucus, NJ to Rockefeller Plaza. So NBC are spending but does…