Diary
Someone in the public eye tells us about their week
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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
Life & Society
Pens, rulers, fists - and tears
- 03 January 2008
Being unemployed would be fine if you knew in nine months you'd land a dream gig. So it's a finite period, and you can have a ball, or learn Italian, or watch Jeremy Kyle
Life & Society
The chance to begin again
- 13 December 2007
A fire, a cat, carols on Christmas Eve and cabbage picked from the garden. Certain rituals cannot be improved upon
Life & Society
I can't play the piano but let me blow my trumpet
- 06 December 2007
Christmas purists will protest that it's too early to go festive, but it's only once a year and I want to make the most of it
