January 2011
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Before Christmas I started a job as a reporter at Building magazine, covering the UK construction industry. As a new-fangled reporter I’ll be looking to blog and tweet about my journalistic experiences and life back in London…
Bear with me, I’m still getting the hang of it!
Photo by Gorbould.
September 2010
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Restaurant your Home
The ‘romantic meal’ doesn’t always go to plan. You incinerate the grilled vegetables… There’s an egg shell in the soufflé… The smell of curried potatoes is hard to shift from your clothes… If you want that special occasion to go without a hitch, help is at hand. Restaurant your Home is the creation of experienced chef Miro Martinez. The idea is simple. Next time you treat your...
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How can a European make sense of the fervent anti-government feeling running through America, as seen in the 300,000 strong Tea Party rally in Washington DC?
I’m in no position to speculate really, but I do wonder whether one factor might be geography.
Washington DC may seem more remote to a Texan than London might to a Geordie.
In terms of distance there’s 1300 miles in it, but also a whole...
June 2009
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Foreign correspondents on China 20 years after...
What hope is there for greater political freedoms in China? Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the massacre at Tiananmen Square and China’s response to the occasion shows that little progress has been made. Vigils to mark the date were banned in all areas except Hong Kong and foreign journalists were prevented from filming in Tiananmen Square – including BBC journalist James Reynolds, as can...
May 2009
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Westfield Shopping Centre crunched
No news intro is complete without it. The recession has swept through the world’s newspapers. ‘Credit crunch’ is the phrase that launched a thousand stories. Well, more like thousands and thousands of stories. On work experience at the Times last week I was sent out to Westfield Shopping Centre in White City to see if the recession had had an impact on London’s newest and most extravagant...
April 2009
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March 2009
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Why Sir Fred Goodwin was rewarded for failure
In the back of Private Eye is the reliably eye-opening column In The City, which uncovers dodgy goings-on in the financial markets.
The unnamed author frequently develops stories that have been in the papers. This week’s column looks at the warped reasoning behind Sir Fred Goodwin’s £693,000 a year pension (I can’t provide a link sadly as Private Eye doesn’t really do online).
In The City...
October 2008
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How many traffic wardens does it take to book a...
Five! Or at least that’s how many I spotted crowding around this Volkswagen in Islington the other day…