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I’ve just been through my first earthquake experience. I was on the phone and the building started swaying. It was perfectly quiet and nearly not noticeable. But as soon as you notice it – probably one or two seconds – it consumes your attention. The building continued rolling and swaying (apparently many of the anti-earthquake [...]

I haven’t had a new poll for a very, very long time. So, sort-of inspired by my pseudo rant last week about TV news in the United States, I have knocked up a new one. It’s on the right-hand side and included below.
That means that I need to review the results of the previous [...]

A very funny example of journalist ego gone mad is zooming around media circles at the moment. And at the centre of it, designer-stubble dork Giles Coren.
Coren’s not a bad writer and he used to write very funny pieces, but over the past year/two years it was clear his ego was getting out of control [...]

I am working from home today which has given me the rare and entirely unsatisfactory opportunity to watch the lunchtime TV news in the United States of America.
People often say that the news in the US is terrible – and it is, it is appalling. But it hit home this lunchtime when I flipped [...]