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Category Archives: Journalism

Diary of an ordinary week

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Monday Interview with retiring British tenor Ian Partridge, at RAM. Highlights: IP’s piano teacher at Clifton had only one arm, which, while apparently being no hindrance at the keyboard, didn’t help his driving any; IP once hit 78 n.o. (a career best) in an effort to avoid an organ lesson with same; and once, while […]

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Barnaby Brown and the triple-pipe

Friday, June 20, 2008

One bulky Sardinian man is yelling and gesticulating at another Sardinian man. My few words of Italian notwithstanding, it is evident these men are not enquiring after each other’s health. The head-to-head has been raging for some 45 minutes, and the crowd has started to join in. I make a mental note of the nearest […]

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Devil May Care

Saturday, May 31, 2008

‘Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming’, reviewed. — For Stop Smiling

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A free album? I don’t buy it

Monday, October 15, 2007

Radiohead’s In Rainbows, considered. — For Stop Smiling

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Liberation or catastrophe?

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Sir Michael Howard’s Liberation or Catastrophe? (Hambledon Continuum, £25) is an emphatic commentary on the West’s continuing struggle to deal with the basic legacy of the Enlightenment: ‘the freedom to starve’. Beginning with the rise of nations, Sir Michael analyses a century-long global war which destroyed the old European order and witnessed a maelstrom of […]

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Now I have to pretend to like graphic novels, too?

Monday, August 20, 2007

A review of Douglas Wolk’s Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean. — For Stop Smiling

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God is NOT Great

Monday, June 11, 2007

by Christopher Hitchens, reviewed. — For Stop Smiling

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Shadowland

Monday, April 2, 2007

A Q&A with Danish photojournalist Jan Grarup. — For Stop Smiling

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‘Additional reporting by…’

Sunday, December 24, 2006

from a Sunday Times (UK) tsunami-anniversary article, the headline of which I’m not prepared to repeat. — For The Sunday Times

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How Bond got his balls back

Monday, November 20, 2006

(and then nearly lost them again) Casino Royale, reviewed. — For Stop Smiling

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