Diary
Someone in the public eye tells us about their week
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Life & Society
My striptease wasn't required - fortunately
- 13 March 2008
I would have taken my clothes off in parliament to get funding for Kids Company. Luckily, I didn't have to
Life & Society
Glenn Hoddle's mullet
- 06 March 2008
At the Ashes to Ashes story conference we talk about 1982, the Falklands and the IRA bomb in Hyde Park. How will Gene Hunt survive in a post-Scarman London?
Life & Society
Don't drink the Kool-Aid
- 28 February 2008
- 2 comments
I have had two reviews that every playwright should cherish. One told me to burn my script, the other told the management to ditch it. They are already in the process of being framed
South America
It's a serious business, carnival
- 21 February 2008
Eating at a local restaurant in Rio one evening, I felt the music from a passing street party cause my throat to vibrate so intensely that I could barely swallow my rice and beans
Life & Society
Flayed, then buried alive in chocolate truffles
- 14 February 2008
- 1 comment
One morning I went to open the webmail as usual and there they were, pages of curses and four-letter words, shimmering in shocking pink, lime green, malevolent black
Business
The wise, the blunt and the Glasgow kiss
- 07 February 2008
Here is what is shockingly different about Soros: he turned up without a minder, exhibited no pomposity and spoke almost no bollockese
Asia
Paradise without the politics
- 31 January 2008
The truth was, the civil war seemed a million miles away and the most urgent situation "on the ground" was Gore Vidal's lost luggage
Media
Trevor's six-pack
- 24 January 2008
In my old job at Sky I wasn't recognised often. One woman was convinced she knew me because she thought I worked at M&S in Richmond
Religion
What's the point of “church” ?
- 17 January 2008
The nation's debt crisis may not seem a very spiritual matter, but any free counsel the C of E can give is to be commended
Asia
Drink, dictators and belly dancers
- 10 January 2008
- 2 comments
Hearing the UK and US drone on about democracy in Pakistan makes me sick: Musharraf would remain a dictator even if he donned a tutu
