February 2003 – Page 5

4 February 2003

The new Greg Dyke, more like…

Jana Bennet, the BBC’s new Director of Television, comes out fighting in Media Guardian.

3 February 2003

By the way…

Postman’s Park in the City is a reminder of London’s continuing power to surprise. A 50ft long ceramic tile memorial in a quiet park buried amongst the commercial buildings –…

3 February 2003

On Sontag

The Guardian ran an extract from Susan Sontag’s new book ‘Regarding the Pain of Others’ (itself an edited version of a New Yorker article – how’s that for repurposing?). Sontag…

3 February 2003

Our hero

By train to Farringdon, then a beautiful walk through the City – past Smithfield and St Paul’s, through Postman’s Park – to meet Michael Thompson, a partner at Steptoe and…

3 February 2003

31p per day…

Steve Barnett is a media academic and a prominent defender of British broadcasting’s mythic quality and distinctiveness – and, of course, the licence fee. In his response to Barry Cox’s…

3 February 2003

The Nelson Mandela International Peace Force…

David Aaronovitch finds good reasons for liberals to support the war in The Observer.

1 February 2003

Air-heads?

Azeem alerts me to Tony Perkins’ latest project. Perkins is an interesting figure: a glamorous member of a Sand Hill Road tech VC dynasty, founder of the Silicon Valley bible…

1 February 2003

Vàclav Havel

If you were brought up in Britain and on the left, like me, the Vàclac Havel of Soviet-era Czechoslovakia was an exotic and quite difficult figure. By the time I…

Month: February 2003