The sound and fury regarding the future of newspapers in the last couple of months has been getting ridiculous. In a speech recently, James Murdoch blamed the BBC’s “free” online news service (the BBC is funded by a license fee paid by any Brit with a TV or radio, for which I say "Thank you ...
The New Zealand retreat was wonderful! I cooked and ate clean, NZ produce, drank and washed in sweet rainwater, chopped kindling and ...
Summer has well and truly struck the fair city of Nagoya so it Is time for the seasonal site makeover and time for me to flee! To say I’ve never been a Summer person is an extreme understatement and I find the humidity and heat oppressive beyond description. Several months ago, my dear, dear Superman ...
Tony McNicol is a photojournalist based in Tokyo who has a great blog which covers his experiences both as a photographer and in Japan generally and, of course, always has great photos! ...
Shane at The Nihon Sun put a call out to those of us living in Japan to post a picture of the view from our windows and so I thought I'd use this gentle, almost-tagging to ease back into blogging after the break I have taken recently. I have been assessing the role that ...
I have several blogs on my RSS reader by working writers and editors. Recently, I started following a new blog put together by several of those publishing-types called The Blood Red Pencil and I'm loving ...
Having been born in 1973 and grown up in Australia, I've never really known that much about Cuba. From film and television I knew that smoking Cuban cigars was naughty because the ...
On Sep 15th The Times published some emails which were communications between Russell T. Davies and Benjamin Cook, a journalist with whom Davies was working on the newly released: Doctor ...
Annabel Crabb is one of my favourite journalists. I always hope to see her on the Insiders couch each Sunday for her deep political insights and ability to cut through the dross to the heart of the matter at hand in such a way that even Piers Akerman knows the argument is done ...
I picked up this book because I was interested to see how another writer might handle a contemporary fantasy which invokes ancient gods in the modern world. That the ancient gods were Asian (specifically Chinese) and ...
