Sunday, January 31, 2021

A Life in Reform

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  Books about management are big business. The Management section of any bookshop is therefore a big one – with what used to be a clear divi...
Monday, January 25, 2021

What is “proper journalism”?

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The “Breaking News” book by the former editor of “The Guardian”, Alan Rusbridger, contrasts the two worlds of what he calls the “legacy med...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

Breaking News – the remaking of journalism and why it matters now

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The media used to be described as one of the key features of democracy – for its ability to hold power to scrutiny. So much so it was actual...
Thursday, January 21, 2021

Pageants and national values

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After the bruising words and events of the past 4 plus years, it was important to see the better side of the United States on display yester...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Democracy in America II

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The previous post was my first response to the January 6 th storming of the Capitol in Washington USA – which represented the logical culmi...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Democracy in America

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America is an imaginary place....It exists as an image in each of our minds, nurtured partly by intellectual fare but mainly by the Holywood...
Sunday, January 10, 2021

Things go Up..and Down...and round-about

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  A lot of clever people have devoted a lot of intellectual effort to suggest that all novels can be reduced to 6-7 basic plots which are a...
Saturday, January 9, 2021

The edited version of 2020's posts

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  Three weeks of blog silence – and the new year is more than a week old without a peep from the blog...... I often go into hibernation at ...