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Editor’s Diary: A Parade Stopped in Portadown and Eight Foreign Ministers Back the Court, and I Keep the Jokes in the Drawer

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Alan Nafzger on a Secretary of State’s order under the Public Processions Act, the Chief Constable’s warning, a joint statement on the ICC and the limits of an editor’s wit Saturday 10 October, 9.05pm, the editor’s study, a lamp, a pot of tea and the sense that some days the right thing to do with … Read more

The Hardest Thing to Write Is Praise

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We ran a piece on London’s oldest restaurant surviving 228 years by serving food people want to eat, and I had to work out why a compliment was funny Wednesday, Before Lunch, Hungry A dangerous time to edit a piece about food. I had a digestive biscuit at ten and it has not held. The … Read more

Editor’s Diary: The Prime Minister Hands the Regions an Innovation Budget and I Reread Bagehot With a Pencil

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Alan Nafzger on devolved research money, a Manchester summit, a billion pounds for clusters and the old English habit of announcing decentralisation from the centre Saturday 10 October, 8.05am, the editor’s desk, a cold cup of tea, three newspapers and a fourth cup on the way. Dear Diary. An editor of a political site learns … Read more

Intergovernmental Relations: Meetings About Meetings

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Intergovernmental Relations: Meetings About Meetings | How Nine Australian Governments Coordinate With Each Other, Mostly by Agreeing to Have Another Meeting