There was a heartfelt piece in The New York Times this week from Timothy Egan about the readiness of publishers to commission books from people who can’t string three words together, the latest beneficiary being Joe the Plumber.
Egan has paid his dues as both journalist and novelist (see The Winemaker’s Daughter), and is rightly annoyed [...]

This week, 50 of my colleagues at Telegraph Media Group lost their jobs, casualties close to home of an economic crisis that has its roots in the readiness of American banks to lend to people who can’t pay them back.
This morning I received a letter from Abbey, with which I have a mortgage, offering me [...]

Did you recycle carrier bags and bin bags in 2008? How? By using them twice or three times instead of once? You weren’t really trying. Look what Joshua Allen Harris, a New York artist, does with his: