http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/bel_mooney en http://www.newstatesman.com/200610230012 http://www.newstatesman.com/200610230012 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:00:00 GMT Bel Mooney Texting bores me: I can't be bothered with the twiddling or the false intimacies. But at least this keeps me out of danger

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200605290047 http://www.newstatesman.com/200605290047 Mon, 29 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT Bel Mooney Taken from the New Statesman archive, 13 August 1976. This rather bleak portrait of professional contentment was one of a series of articles Mooney contributed in 1976 under the title "Familiar Figures", her other subjects including a roadsweeper and a BR steward. - Brian Cathcart

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