Issue 69

..such a hideous social faux pas that I’ve been known to clench manfully and sit on it for the entire evening, squeaking surreptitiously, no doubt.. But, back to Sleep. At a dinner party the other night I was obliged to pitch my rock opera, The Jellabad Mutant. It’s a palpable deficiency, given the business that…

..smile and a good word for everybody does not qualify, I’m sorry. I’m talking about real charisma, the sort that makes a room fall silent and the hairs rise at the back of your neck. Politics is a fertile ground for charismatics – and, of course, now that I’ve used that particular derivation of the…

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.. is no immediate evidence for this assumption. For example, there have been occasions when we’ve been playing to an apparently indifferent crowd, and yet when we’ve finished playing, a selection of those very same people has made a point of letting us know just how thrilled they were with the music. That has a…

.. from the ‘New York Post’ and ‘The Wall Street Journal’, he runs controls six community newspaper groups. Internationally he controls Dow Jones, ‘Barron’s’ and ‘The Far Eastern Review’ amongst other news organisations and enterprises. But it is the media assets that are the jewels in the Murdoch empire crown, providing cash and increasing influence….