Thursday, October 17, 2002

All hail Martyn Goff ...

The current health of English fiction can be explained in two words: Martyn Goff.

For years Goff worked hard and got nowhere. To smart young literary journalists his efforts were a joke. Then he had an idea: ‘The British don't instinctively love good novels but they will drag themselves naked over broken glass to watch a horse race. Why not, Goff thought, combine the two: a literary Derby?’

Shocking but True: Specter of Gough's Researcher is Haunting Darling Point

Latham and bloggers making startling ranting news.

A Media Giant No Longer Following Latham's Speech

‘Shares in Reuters have fallen 23% after the financial information giant reported a drop in sales and warned of continuing problems.’

In order to avoid further ‘market readjustments,’ or god forbid bankruptcy, Reuters executives have sent headhunters to areas west of Sydney

Alas the latest awful moaning you can hear is not the wind:

Mark Latham has predicted that victory for the Greens in Cunningham by-election would force the closure of the BHP steelworks in Port Kembla. Can Labor possibly lose a seat it has never lost in 22 elections across 53 years since Cunningham was created in 1949?