Oh dear, the second post criticising The Times in two weeks. I’ll never get a job at News International now. Oh well. The BBC News website relaunched today and it looks great. Now, you could argue that they have a far bigger budget and more time to play with than The Times, let alone the [...]
So I’ve paid my pound for a month’s subscription to the Times website, more out of curiosity really then being a loyal reader. I very rarely read a printed copy but do generally like their web content and was keen to see how they were going to make it sparkle now people are paying directly [...]
February 23, 2010 – 4:42 pm
The Guardian’s four-page spread on Ten Rules For Writing Fiction at the weekend was hugely enjoyable. Margaret Atwood said, ‘Take something to write on. Paper is good.’ Roddy Doyle said do keep a thesaurus – but in the shed where you can’t get at it easily. And Will Self finished on something rude which I [...]