adrian monck

Category: Journalists

  • Public interest in the BNP

    The British National Party‘s Nick Griffin and Mark Collett give the stuff that lingers round the bath tub rim a bad name. Their previous thoughts are a matter of record. Here’s a little selection from The Times. And yet party leader Griffin also tries to claim that the BNP is removed from such transparently evil…

  • Jeremy Vine

    Jeremy Vine is to be the new face of the prime-time Panorama, soon to be available as a compact. [MG] Vine has reinvented himself pretty successfully on Radio 2. Hours of daily vocal exercise have relaxed the clipped Paxman-esque diction that plagued Vine’s TV persona, and – in the un-Paxman-esque enthusiasm – you can detect…

  • Stern contrast

    Not often you see British journalism lauded over American, but the UK media’s cheerleading for the Stern review gets two thumbs up in the Columbia Journalism Review. Click on to suspend your disbelief…[CJR]

  • Washington views and news

    Over lunch today someone just back from the U.S. was telling of a very recently cancelled eating engagement with none other than Karl Rove. The secretary who called to reschedule explained politely that the mid-term elections were taking up more time than Mr Rove had anticipated. Unsurprisingly, U.S. politics features heavily on the new Channel…