Journo Listless
‘The image of the newspaperman as a suave but ballsy individual who, whisky in hand, wires copy to a smoke-filled newsroom is now incredibly
A Clever Fool
JONATHAN FOREMAN How do you reconcile Robert Harris the clever, sensitive, erudite and sensible author of "Fatherland" and two excellent novels based on the
Istanbul: Press Freedom Alla Turca
'When Western journalists note in a casual aside that press freedom has experienced certain setbacks under the AKP, they are failing to do justice
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
The Bletchley Park cryptographers were a rum bunch. Their successors are keeping up the good work
Johannesburg: Hard Pressed
'I would like to think that all the politically correct Brits who lined up to condemn me for "juxtapositional racism" might say a word
Poetry in Motion
Photographic pioneer, inventor and killer, Eadweard Muybridge was a very complex character indeed
Big Mistake
It wouldn't surprise me if Obama's support for the Islamic Centre and Mosque near Ground Zero costs him the next election. I'm on holiday
The Misfit at No 10
State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook and Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler