May you live in interesting times is often said to be a Chinese curse. Is it really? Anyway, a much more terrible curse would be, may you meet interesting people. I meet interesting people all the time and that is….. interesting. But the effect of the curse is that these meetings remind me of how dull my own life has been. Neverthless, web sites must have “biogs”, so here is an edited version of mine.
Born Manchester. Educated Bolton School and King’s College. Cambridge. Degree in English. At The Times as Financial News Editor and Deputy Arts Editor from 1976 to 1984. Freelance journalist ever since. Three times won Feature Writer of the Year and twice commended in the British Press Awards. Have contributed to, among others, Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Spectator, Times Literary Supplement, The Tablet, New York Times, Vanity Fair etc. I am currently a special feature writer, commentator, reviewer and columnist for The Sunday Times.
