Tag: Life

  • Bridge fanatic

    Another beautiful day in Soho. To Blacks in Dean Street for lunch with John Wilmott. John founded – with his brother Eamonn – Internet Publishing which became Online Magic and,…

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  • Got little kids?

    Throwing out the self-promotional boom a bit further today – to take in my wife Juliet’s latest column at Tigerchild. Juliet’s been writing her funny and frank weekly accounts of…

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  • The manned space programme and human vanity

    Those who doubt that we should continue sending people into space have a point – but only in the short term. As soon as you stretch the time scale out…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • Nice weather…

    …if you didn’t actually have to go anywhere.

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  • Steam-rollered?

    Felix Velarde – or at least his business < shouldn't exist. Underwired is a successful independent web design studio. Businesses like Felix’s are supposed to be extinct

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  • Pizza with a pioneer

    Roger Green is a media backroom boy, a veteran of many years as a top manager at Britain’s number 2 magazine publisher EMAP (until he left the company last year)…

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  • Practically a proper journalist…

    The nice people at The Guardian (in particular Online editor Vic Keegan) continue to indulge me and have now allowed me a weekly ‘at large’ column which you’ll be able…

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  • A sunny day in Soho

    It was a beautiful day in Soho. Spring is definitely in the air.

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