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I reached this eminence by a circuitous route. In 1986, while writing a book
about the London police (Watching the Detectives, Hodders, 1988) I was hired
by the Independent, then just
starting, as Religious
Affairs Correspondent. During the ten years I spent at the paper, I mostly
kept that title, while also writing parliamentary sketches, leaders, assorted
think pieces on every subject
imaginable,
and almost anything else to avoid news. At one stage I was writing and
editing simultaneously the consumer computer page and the Godslot. In 1995
I won the first annual Templeton prize
as the best religious correspondent in Europe. I also contributed to publications
ranging from the News of the World to the
New York Review of Books.
In 1996 I tired of the excitement of working for the Mirror group, who then owned the Independent, and opted for the comparative security of full-time freelancing. I currently write think pieces for the Sunday Telegraph, the Independent, and the Daily Express; columns in the Daily Mail (on computers), the Church Times (on the press); and soon the New Statesman on on cyberspace. I have also written for Salon on culture, technology and eating goats. I still do occasional book reviews for the Spectator. Once a month I write for Waterlog, the best fishing magazine in the world. Simon and Schuster will publish in February my book The Darwin Wars. You might think of it as history of ideas with all the messy bits left in. This week's project is a collection of reader's letters over the years: these are people who thought no one but their mothers would ever love them. and they were right. There are some articles I am proud of here. |
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