December 11, 2020
December 9, 2020
“Another nurse was holding that patient’s hand as they slipped away and when Taylor turned to look she saw the monitor was off, indicating death. This meant the filter the deceased patient had been using was now available and Taylor took it for her severely sick patient, in the hope of keeping them alive; but at 7.55pm, five minutes before her shift ended, that patient died too.”
December 9, 2020
“I was the first journalist allowed inside a prison since lockdown.. I walked through wings and along landings, spoke with prisoners in their cells and learnt first-hand their fears and frustrations, hearing many moving stories of resilience and struggle.”
December 9, 2020
“All eyes were on the Prisoner. I noted that his daughter’s name was tattooed on his arm and couldn’t help wondering if he’d had it done before or after he murdered her mother.”
On the cover of The Sunday Times Magazine…
The Sleep Of Reason – The James Bulger Case by David James Smith:
Faber Finds edition with new preface, available September 15th, 2011.
Young Mandela the movie – in development.
From The Guardian
Read the article
In the Diary column of The Independent, April 13th, 2011
More on my previously unsubstantiated claim that the writer-director Peter Kosminsky, creator of The Promise, is working on a drama about Nelson Mandela. I’ve now learnt that the project is a feature film, in development with Film 4, about the young Mandela. Kosminsky is currently at work on the script and, given the complaints about the anti-Jewish bias of The Promise, it is unlikely to be a standard bland portrait of the former South African president.
Nelson Mandela was circumcised as a 16-year-old boy alongside a flowing river in the Eastern Cape. The ceremony was similar to those of other Bantu peoples. An elder moved through the line making ring-like cuts, and foreskins fell away. The boys could not so much as blink; it was a rite of passage that took you beyond pain. read full review
Jon Venables: What Went Wrong
BBC 1, 10.35
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
