More or less news more-or-less concerning Lord Salisbury, Quakers, and Chaldaean numerology. — For The Emigre
Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE
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Also tagged Africa, Americans, Australia, big mamas, cars, Chaldaea, death, gold, Guildenstern, lighthouses, Lord Salisbury, maps, March, mental health, natural resources, Nelson Evening Mail, news, numerology, Old Norse, Patrick Watts, Princeton, Quakers, Rosencrantz, satire, Siberia, soup, swearing, The Emigre, the Supreme Court, vitals
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… my diaries relate a (very positive) diplomatic incident from 15 years ago. — For The Emigre
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Also tagged Afghanistan, America, Australia, Basildon, Burundi, Canada, diplomacy, drink, finance, Gary Busey, Guinness, Ireland, London, Malaysia, marijuana, Myanmar, oaths, Queen Elizabeth II, Red Bull, Russia, Rwanda, school, Soho, Somaliland, South Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, The Commonwealth of Nations, The Emigre, the Falklands, Zimbabwe
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Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy by Symeon Brown, Atlantic Books, £16.99 . Born when we were born, and embarking on writing ‘careers’ (LOL) just as the web ripped the financial guts out of the paper industry, my idea of a good time is to phone my best […]
Filed in Journalism, review
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Also tagged 50 Cent, Atlantic Books, Black Lives Matter, books, Cardi B, Channel 4, Clubhouse, Covid, crime, cryptocurrency, dropshipping, Facebook, fashion, Fashion Nova, finance, influencing, Instagram, Jordan Belfort, Journalism, Kylie Jenner, LimeWire, LinkedIn, livestreaming, music, non-fiction, plastic surgery, pyramid schemes, rap, religion, social media, Soulja Boy, Symeon Brown, Texas, The Critic, The Wall Street Journal, TikTok, Tottenham, Turkey, Twitter, YouTube
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Review of Alexandria: the Quest for the Lost City, by Edmund Richardson. — For The Spectator
Filed in Journalism, review
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Also tagged Afghanistan, Alexander (‘the Great’), Alexander Burnes, army, Bagram, Bamiyan, Bengal, Bombay, books, Buddhism, Charles Masson, Edmund Richardson, Harappa, India, Josiah Harlan, Kabul, Kharosthi, London, Macedonia, non-fiction, Pakistan, spies, the British Museum, the East India Company, the Great Game, the Hindu Kush, The Spectator, tigers, war, William Loveday
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Notes on Colombo’s books and bookmen in the time of Covid-19. — For The Critic
Filed in correspondence, Journalism
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Also tagged alcohol, Aleksandar Hemon, Amazon, Ashok Ferrey, B&Q, Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, books, bookshops, Buddhism, Ceylon, Ceylon Bible Society, charity, Chuck Palahniuk, clothing, Colombo, Colombo Fashion Week, Colombo International Book Fair, construction, Covid-19, Dan Brown, David Duchovny, democracy, Denis Johnson, Donald Trump, Dr Sudath Samaraweera, Dutch Burgher Union, education, Emma Donoghue, Emmanuel Carrere, England, Eventbrite, Facebook, Galle Literary Festival, Harrods, health, hygiene, Iran, James Hadley Chase, Jilly Cooper, Kumar Sangakkara, letters, LIDL, Lt General Shavendra Silva, Malaysia, Michael Chabon, Milo, money, music, Nicholas Mosley, Nixon, Northern Ireland, novels, One Galle Face, Ottawan, Panos Karnezis, rain, religion, Robert Knox, satire, schools, Shangri-La, Shehan Karunatilaka, shopping, Sinhala, snacks, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Exhibition & Conference Centre, Tamil, TASCHEN, taxes, TGI Fridays, The Big Bad Wolf, The Critic, the internet, the Sistine Chapel, Tisara Prakasakayo, TS Eliot, tsunami, VIPs, Waterstone's, weddings, Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
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Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Review of Jonathan C Slaght’s compelling Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl. — For Geographical
Filed in Journalism, review
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Also tagged Allen Lane, Americans, bears, conservation, fieldwork, forests, Geographical, Japan, Jonathan C Slaght, memoir, non-fiction, North Korea, owls, Russia, the Soviet Union, tigers, urine, winter
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. An architect named Firth was found at a Weymouth inquest to have shot himself in the side with a toy cannon while temporarily insane. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Tuesday, December 22 1908 . The SAS have killed some people in Afghanistan. The Veneziana pizza was invented in the 1970s by Pizza Express. In […]
Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE
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Also tagged Afghanistan, anatomy, architecture, artillery, bookshops, children, Christmas, cocks, Colombo, fathers, food, greed, humanity, laziness, madness, magic, Nelson Evening Mail, news, Pizza Express, reindeer, religion, robots, Russian, SAS, satire, Sir Isaac Newton, Sydney, the Dutch, trees, Venice, Weymouth, wolves
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The Sri Lankan writer and photographer talks about the greatest photo he never got… and one he did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times
Filed in column, interview, Journalism
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Also tagged Buddhism, clothing, David Blacker, demons, Interview, Kandy, light, monks, New York Times, novels, photography, Ritigala, Sinhala, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), Sweden, terrorism, travel, veddahs, war
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A lockdown letter from Colombo. — For The Critic
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Also tagged Amazon, Argentina, army, beer, children, Colombo, coronavirus, cricket, Dominic Hilton, drink, Facebook, food, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, health, letters, lockdown, May Day, Mel Gibson, money, Osama bin Laden, painting, peacocks, quizzes, Sanskrit, shopping, Singapore, Sinhala, socialism, Sri Lanka, swimming, the British, The Critic, UberEats, work
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Yasuke: The True Story of an African Samurai by Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard Sphere £20 (hardback) . In late July 1579, an enormous, well-dressed and well-armed African bodyguard stepped off a boat into the southern Japanese port of Kochinotsu. Yasuke – perhaps from ‘Isaac’ in Amharic – had (probably) been abducted as a child […]
Filed in Journalism, review
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Also tagged Alessandro Valignano, Amharic, Christianity, Ethiopia, Geoffrey Girard, Geographical, Japan, Japanese, Jesuits, religion, samurai, the East Indies, Thomas Lockley, war
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