If Andrew Marr continues to produce Start The Weeks (MP3) of this quality on his departure from the big politics job at the Beeb it’ll all be worth it. William Shawcross, Christopher Hitchens and Germaine Greer on great form. Speaking of Hitchens, you’ve got to read this mind-blowing double-interview: Christopher and his estranged brother Peter with The Guardian’s Ian Katz at the Hay Festival (they also made it onto Today this morning). What a pair.
In which I try, after 25 years of blogging, to drop my ironic stance a bit.
And, at last, I WAS THERE. At the Hay festival that is, where they produced G2 live. But I never saw such a white, white, white (middle class) event.