I was a teenager in the 1980s. I wrote to my friends on paper, with a pen, and posted the letters in stamped envelopes. The charts came out on a Sunday afternoon, and I hovered by the radio with a blank tape cassette in the tape deck. There was no
Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, featured in a recent Guardian report (28th August), concerned that his vote against gay marriage in the Church of England could be viewed as ‘wicked, ‘akin to ‘racism and other forms of gross and atrocious injustice,’ particularly by people under 35. However, he also
And so to Harvest, and Jim Crace’s much reported declaration that he is going to give up writing, and the accompanying theory that his Booker nomination is a plea on the part of the establishment for him to reconsider. I don’t buy it (well I did buy Harvest.) Firstly, if
So today I read in the Guardian that Tanya Gold is expecting a baby, and that she’s scared. I love her columns. I even agree with most of her opinions, and when I don’t, I find her interesting, informative and well written. So, Tanya Gold, as I do know something