Johann Hari. Johann Hari. Early life[edit] Hari was born in Glasgow and raised in London from the age of one. He attended John Lyon School, (an independent school affiliated to Harrow School) and then Woodhouse College, a state sixth-form.[5] He graduated from King's College, Cambridge, in 2001 with a double first in Social and Political Sciences.[6] Career[edit] Personal views[edit] Hari has declared his sympathy with the environmental movement,[9] republicanism,[10] and drug legalisation.[11] He is gay[12] and a self-declared secularist and atheist.[13] Hari supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq,[14] based on a visit to Iraq in December 2002[15] and a March 2003 story by Kenneth Joseph.[16] In 2006 he reversed this position.[17] Journalistic controversy[edit] In June 2011 Hari was accused of plagiarism in his use of unattributed quotations in interviews, where he had used previously published quotes in place of his interviewees' recorded answers.
Plagiarism[edit] Orwell Prize withdrawal[edit] Wikipedia editing[edit] Normblog. You know those lists of books you get hit with from time to time and of which, for some reason, there have been a lot lately? In the last few days we have had '100 books to love' and 'The books we secretly love - our 50 favourite page-turners' from, respectively, The Sunday Times and The Times (both £). And before that there was the '100 novels everyone should read', and - with inflation - the '1000 novels everyone must read', and '100 Books To Read Before You Die'. There were also the 'top 100 books of all time' and the top 100 titles from the BBC's Big Read. As well as plenty more. While I'm sure these lists are meant to be helpful, guiding us towards books we might want to try, they can also be a bit oppressive, don't you find?
I mean, they tempt you to start counting, to see how well you fare as a literary fishbo. And it can be a little depressing. That's it. Norman Geras. Norman Geras (25 August 1943 - 18 October 2013)[1] was a political theorist and Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Manchester. He contributed to an analysis of the works of Karl Marx in his book Marx and Human Nature[2][3][4] and the article The Controversy About Marx and Justice. Geras was born in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, to a Jewish family.[5] Arriving in the UK in 1962,[6] he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Pembroke College, Oxford and graduated in 1965. He was a research student from 1965 to 1967 at Nuffield College, Oxford before joining the University of Manchester as a Lecturer in 1967, retiring as a Professor in 2003.
He married the children's writer Adèle Geras (born Jerusalem, 1944) in 1967.[9] One of their two daughters is Sophie Hannah,[10] the poet and author. Bibliography[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Oliver Kamm. Oliver Kamm. Early life[edit] The son of translator Anthea Bell,[2] and Antony Kamm,[3] he was educated at New College, Oxford and Birkbeck College, University of London. Kamm embarked on to a career in the financial sector, taking posts in the Bank of England and the securities industry, including as Head of Strategic Research at Commerzbank Global Equities in London.[4] He helped start a pan-European investment bank in 1997.[5][6] Politics[edit] A founding member of the Henry Jackson Society, Kamm supported the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, and asserted that "the world is a safer place for the influence" George W. On 27 January 2010, Kamm announced on BBC Radio 5 live that he believed Tony Blair had been the greatest peacetime prime minister of the 20th century.[17] Kamm has written in Index on Censorship in response to the 2009 visit of Geert Wilders arguing that "No one has a right in a free society to be protected from anguish".[21] Criticism of Noam Chomsky[edit] Notes[edit] External links[edit]
Stephen Pollard. Stephen Pollard. Stephen Pollard. Stephen Pollard (born c. 1965) is a British author and journalist who is currently editor of The Jewish Chronicle. He is a former Chairman of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and a former president of the Centre for the New Europe, a free-market think tank based in Brussels. He has written columns for several publications, including The Times and the Daily Mail, and also has maintained a blog. Pollard is an alumnus of John Lyon School and Mansfield College, Oxford. He is an advocate of market-based public service reforms. He is also a frequent commentator on Israel, and a critic of Jihadist movements.[1] Career[edit] Formerly employed by the Daily Express, for whom he worked as a journalist and leader-writer, Stephen Pollard left the paper in 2001 shortly after it was taken over by Richard Desmond, then a publisher of pornographic magazines, who began implementing radical cutbacks.
References[edit] External links[edit] The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Samuel Pepys. Samuel Pepys PRS, MP, JP, (/ˈpiːps/;[1] 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration, to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and subsequently King James II. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy.[2] The detailed private diary Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period.
It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London. Early life[edit] Illness[edit] The diary[edit] Samuel Pepys' bookplate. Public life[edit] Nosemonkey's EUtopia. An email comes in – I thought I may as well turn the response into a post: “I’m a journalism student working on an article about British press coverage of the EU. I’m particularly interested in the spiral of scant EU coverage creating reader apathy, and public disinterest then discouraging editors from spending much energy on Europe. “I’m an admirer of your Nosemonkey blog, and was re-reading your post from April 2008 when you say the press are to blame for Britain’s increasingly eurosceptic nature, both through lack of coverage and the dominance of eurosceptic editorial policies.
“I would love to know how you see press influence playing out ahead of the possible referendum on the UK’s place in Europe next year, and whether you think the BBC has become more balanced since the independent review of its coverage.” For want of time I won’t try and tackle the whole issue – books have been written on media agendas and media bias. Instead let’s hone in on the “balance” angle… “Euroscpticism” J Clive Matthews. J Clive Matthews (also known as James Clive-Matthews) is a British writer, editor, blogger and online content consultant. In 2008 he was shortlisted for the inaugural UACES-Reuters Reporting Europe Award, the only independent journalist on a five-person list that included the BBC's Europe Editor Mark Mardell and the Europe Editor of The Economist.
In 2010 he was named winner of the Internet category in the UK heat of the European Parliament Prize for Journalism, going through to win the EU-wide award in the finals. Melanie Phillips. Melanie Phillips. Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, author, publisher, and prominent right-wing voice in the British media. She started on the left of the political spectrum, writing for The Guardian and New Statesman. During the 1990s she moved to the right, and currently writes for the Daily Mail, covering political and social issues from a social conservative perspective. Phillips defines herself as a liberal who has "been mugged by reality".[2] In 2013 she launched a US-focused e-book publishing company called emBooks, a branch of Melanie Phillips Electric Media LLC.[5][1] Early life[edit] Career[edit] Since 2003, she has written a blog, once hosted by The Spectator, but after a disagreement and her resignation from the magazine in June 2011,[9][10] it is now hosted on her own website.[11] In September 2013, it emerged that her Mail column is to end, although according to Phillips, the newspaper wanted her to continue to write features and other articles for it.[12] Personal life[edit] Views[edit]
Matt T. About Matthew Turner. A Fistful of Euros is a Webzine and Weblog. Its purpose – as well as that of the other afoe-family blogs – is to provide a venue for informed commentary on European politics and culture from a pan-European perspective. We are writing about important developments from NATO to UEFA, from the EU to Eurovision. The “tagged†version of the last sentence might read like this – European politics, economics, culture, and current events, demography, literature, sports. There are currently fifteen member-authors contributing to afoe who reside in nine European countries. We occasionally invite writers we appreciate to contribute as guest writers. We can not be positioned according to the common criteria and labels used to describe American politics and the (blogospherical) coverage thereof. In addition to writing, we’ve also arranged the Satin Pajama European Weblog Awards since 2005.
Gauche. Paul Anderson. Paul Anderson (born 1959) is a British journalist and academic. Paul Anderson's weblog, Gauche. Hopi Sen. British Politics. Orwell Diaries. George Orwell. English author and journalist (1903–1950) Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic.[1] His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism.[2] Blair was born in India, and raised and educated in England.
After school he became an Imperial policeman in Burma, before returning to Suffolk, England, where he began his writing career as George Orwell—a name inspired by a favourite location, the River Orwell. He lived from occasional pieces of journalism, and also worked as a teacher or bookseller whilst living in London. Life[edit] Early years[edit] Blair family home at Shiplake, Oxfordshire Before the First World War, the family moved 2 miles (3 km) south to Shiplake, Oxfordshire, where Eric became friendly with the Buddicom family, especially their daughter Jacintha. Policing in Burma[edit] Southwold[edit] The Cartoonist. The Iron Duke, Mayfair. Podcast mit Konstantin und Ralf. Themen: Mayfair, Avery-Etiketten, Alain Ducasse und Gordon Ramsay, Kate Bush, Captain Sensible, Johnny Moped, Arno Schmidt & The Beatles, Gentlemen’s Clubs, Das Spielcasino der Kray-Brüder, Diana Dors, Literarische Lesungen.The Iron Duke, Mayfair Link zum Podcast Most probably available in autumn: 16 pages of pure chaos and mayhem.
To be published with this rather fabulous company. Need to blog more, but I’m having too much work. The composer Barry Gray in a recording session for the title track of Gerry Anderson’s TV series UFO. I’m slowly adding photos to my new Picfair account. The Shard, solarised. Illustrating Finnegans Wake. The Gripes, © Ralf Zeigermann This is a rather selfish request. Orion 7 landing on Rhea. Ralf Zeigermann.