adrian monck

Reading the New Yorker the other day, I came across the following line (subscription required) from chef Heston Blumenthal (renowned for using the lab techniques of food science for luxury catering rather than mass production). Blumenthal was writing about growing up in the gastronomic wilderness of 1970s Britain: …a time when olive oil was available…

Given Nick Davies‘ story alleging mass mobile phone-hacking by journalists, it might perhaps be instructive to look back at the journalistic morals of another age. Here, by way of example, is ‘Journalism and Morality’ by Silas Bent, published in 1926 in The Atlantic (and quoted in Can You Trust The Media?). Note especially – towards…

Although I’ll be haunting College Building for the next week or so, today is my leaving drinks (or ‘glad you’re gone’ party as we used to call them). I’ll be keeping up a link with the place as a prof, and I’ll be trying to bash out a PhD. And I’ll also be giving a…

My hunch? Not quite there yet…