This and that

I've been a lazy blogger. After the flurry of posting roughly 10 days ago I haven't wriiten a thing. I drafted a few isdeas out, I just never actually turned them into actual postings.

Here now to right a wrong, I thought i'd just flag up a couple of newspaper articles I enjoyed, which now have the added quality/disbenefit of being at least a week out of date.

First off, here's David Mitchell of Peep Show (and nearly all comedic panel gameshows) fame. I'm finding myself rather drawn to his regular articles for the Guardian. He's a pretty good writer, though I think half the effect is that I read it, in my head, in his voice. He has something of the 'gah, really, it's so simple, why are people such idiots?' of Charlie Brooker (this is a good thing).

Anyway, in this article David comtemplates the Tories' indignation that Alan Sugar is combining his work for the politically neutral BBC with his new role as the Government's Enterprise 'Tzar'. Predictably, everyone involved looks like a bit of a fool.

Following that, here's a twee but rather nice article about a overly precocious child helping to edit a newspaper