Jan
26
Cameron in Europe: en route to not much changing at all . . .
January 26, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Former Newshour presenter extraordinaire Robin Lustig’s blog has a new lease of life now he is unchained from the BBC objectivity police . . . lustigletter.blogspot.co.uk. I recommend you bookmark it.
Jul
3
Rediscovered track of the month: Jul ’12
July 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Love/Hate — Blackout in the Red Room
Jun
22
In Praise of NHK World
June 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment
I don’t know exactly when NHK World came to the UK. I suspect it was in 2011 shortly after the tsunami hit Fukushima. I first noticed it on the Freesat service around August 2011 and I’ve been tuning in more and more frequently for the quirky delivery, refreshing bluntness of its reports, strict almost religious […]
Apr
21
Rathergate Rumbles on . . .
April 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment
It’s always nice when a comment points you to something you’d otherwise have missed. Al Dorman’s rather acerbic post here took me on a search across the ocean to a publication called Texas Monthly which has published one of the best examinations of the whole Killian memos/Rathergate debacle I’ve yet seen by Joe Hagan. Read it […]
Feb
27
Comic novels: Zahra’s Paradise & My Friend Dahmer
February 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Apart from a teenage Judge Dredd addiction I never was into comic books but in the past 2 weeks I’ve read two: Zahra’s Paradise by Amir and My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf. Zahra’s Paradise is set in the aftermath of Iran’s 2009 troubled elections. At the peak of the violence I was monitoring twitter […]
Feb
22
RIP Marie Colvin
February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Reports coming in within the past hour suggest journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik have been killed. This comes a day or so after citizen journo Rami al Sayed met his death from Syrian shelling. Like many media folks I tried several times to get hold of Marie over the past few days but comms were difficult, […]
Dec
9
Defining Public Life
December 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Kira Cochrane’s well-researched article about gender imbalance has caused much soul-searching. Suzanne Moore has a nice follow-up saying it’s basically because women cannot bulls**t as much as men which I suspect is true although here in Bush House everyone has their own internal list of rent-a-gobs with more than a few women on it. Recognising fully that […]
May
29
Reporting Joplin’s Tornado
May 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Brian Stelter of the NY Times writes about how he tweeted/reported/uploaded the story of Joplin’s tornado. What the immeasurably modest Mr stelter doesn’t record is that at 0100 Joplin time on the morning of Tuesday 24th (0700 BST) I was sitting in Bush House in London and saw his tweets live and e-Mailed him asking […]