A S H Smyth › NEWS AT A GLANCE

Skip to content

Tag Archives: Americans

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, October 2, 2017

. Few of those who know and admire the camellia, that waxlike and pure flower, are aware that the parent plant, the origin of the million plants scattered throughout Europe, is still alive and is in Italy. — The Nelson Evening Mail, January 22 1907 . The Taliban now control more territory in Afghanistan than they did […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged Afghanistan, Alex Haley, castanets, D-Day, dancing, death, fishing, flora, France, genealogy, hats, history, Icelandic, Ireland, Italy, Khmer, Lakshman Joseph de Saram, linguistics, Miles Davis, musicians, Nelson Evening Mail, ostriches, phones, Playboy, politics, race, religion, royalty, shit, Sri Lanka, the Taliban, Theresa May, Vikings, violin, vomit, war, woodpeckers | Comments (3)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, September 11, 2017

. Miss Mary Elsen, of Chicago, is suing Dr. Charles Weser, a local doctor, for 60 breaches of promise during a four years’ courtship. — The Nelson Evening Mail, June 22 1912 . Soldiers are quite fond of children. Chopsticks are the reason the Chinese never invented custard. The senior members of the House of Commons are not […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged actors, army, Belgium, chickens, clothing, custard, dairy, Elton Jantjies, Epicurus, fleas, French, hair care, Karl Marx, Nelson Evening Mail, Penge East, politics, religion, Richard E Grant, romance, rugby, sex, shopping, South Africans, statuary, the Chinese, The Erotic Review, Tiberias, vanity, women | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, May 22, 2017

. There are more fragrant white flowers than of any other colour. — The Nelson Evening Mail, July 13 1908 . The inhabitants of Ipswich are the least passionate in the UK, having sex on average only 18 times per annum. Gazelles are quite amenable to snuff. Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich was a fully-trained football referee and […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged Aberystwyth, anatomy, children, Déodat-Guy-Sylvain-Tancrède Gratet de Dolomieu, drink, eBay, film, football, gazelles, Great Portland Street, Ipswich, James IV, Jesse James, languages, literature, mineralogy, Nelson Evening Mail, obscenity, Scotland, sex, Shostakovich, tennis, the Bible, the French, tobacco, UK, wives, writing | Comments (1)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, March 27, 2017

. A lady of limited means residing in the country says that her garden clothes herself and her daughter. — The Nelson Evening Mail, August 31 1906 . There is a typo in Punjabi birth certificates. Since January 2013, a Russian cruise ship has been drifting unmanned in the North Atlantic. Toxic trolls are pushing Vicky […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged books, coffee, Concrete Society, drink, farts, food, health, horticulture, India, insanity, Jan Ladislav Dussek, kettles, London, masturbation, Mother's Day, music, Nelson Evening Mail, novels, officialdom, Richard Dawkins, Russia, sea-faring, the Atlantic, the Punjab, tigers, trolls, typos | Comments (0)

Heroes in error

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Review of War Porn. — For The Spectator

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged death, Iraq, novels, pornography, Roy Scranton, Spectator, war | Comments (0)

Our foreign colleagues

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Review of Tell Spring Not to Come This Year. — For The Spectator

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Afghanistan, documentary, film, Michael McEvoy, NATO, Saeed Taji Farouky, Spectator, war | Comments (0)

Blessed are the speechmakers?

Saturday, April 4, 2015

A back-handed tribute to President William Henry Harrison. — For The Spectator

Filed in feature, Journalism | Also tagged death, politics, Spectator, speeches, William Henry Harrison | Comments (0)

theASHtray, vol.10

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Featuring news and views on the espionage du jour, Peter Taylor, Homeland, Spooks, Rubicon, Tinker Tailor…, Ben Macintyre, Americans, Russians, the Chinese, Rwandans, Charlie Dutton Gallery, TASCHEN, FUSE magazine, typographics, computers, Garamond, rubber bands, Marshal McLuhan, Akira The Don, Pink Floyd, ABBA, YouTube, and lollies. — For theartsdesk

Filed in column, Journalism | Also tagged ABBA, Akira The Don, art, Ben Macintyre, books, Charlie Dutton Gallery, Chinese, computers, FUSE, Garamond, graphic design, Homeland, lollies, Marshal McLuhan, music, Peter Taylor, Pink Floyd, rubber bands, Rubicon, Russians, Rwandans, spies, Spooks, TASCHEN, theartsdesk, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, TV, YouTube | Comments (0)

theASHtray, vol.9

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Read, watch and listen: climate-change, Maldivian politics, Jon Shenk, Mohammed Nasheed, Radiohead, Start the Week, Anne McElvoy, Geoff Dyer, Paul Farley, Andrei Tarkovsky, Tristram Shandy, Werner Herzog, Liz Mermin, large hadron colliders, Scott Waugh, Mouse McCoy, Act of Valor, Navy Seals, John McCain, Facebook, blockbusters, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, pianos, Clementi, Mozart, Telemann, and […]

Filed in column, Journalism | Also tagged Andrei Tarkovsky, Anne McElvoy, Aung San Suu Kyi, blockbusters, Burma, Clementi, climate-change, Facebook, film, Foreign Affairs, Geoff Dyer, John McCain, Jon Shenk, large hadron collider, Liz Mermin, Mohammed Nasheed, Mouse McCoy, Mozart, Navy Seals, Paul Farley, piano, politics, radio, Radiohead, Scott Waugh, Start the Week, Telemann, The Independent, the Maldives, theartsdesk, Tristram Shandy, Werner Herzog | Comments (0)

After Wood (after Sebald)

Friday, January 27, 2012

… and it was here, while re-reading an article by the American critic James Wood on the oneiric nature of the writings of ‘Max’ Sebald, that I found myself impressed more and more by the feeling that it was in fact Wood himself who had at least once previously caused me to look up the […]

Filed in Fictions | Also tagged Germans, James Wood, literature, micro-fiction, WG Sebald | Comments (0)