the Observer
When sexism was routine: the life of the female reporter in 1970s London
Lynn Barber 19 September 2020 9:00 am
This book made me almost weep with nostalgia, but heaven knows what today’s snowflakes will make of it. Fleet Street…
Close encounters on the starship Enterprise
Bob Fischer 5 March 2016 9:00 am
For a show with a self-proclaimed ‘five-year mission’, Star Trek hasn’t done badly. Gene Roddenberry’s ‘Wagon train to the stars’…
David Astor: the saintly, tormented man who remade the Observer
Andrew Lycett 5 March 2016 9:00 am
Before embarking on this book, Jeremy Lewis was told by his friend Diana Athill that his subject, the newspaper editor…