Paul Simpson
Journalist, author, editor
- One of the few downsides of being a rocket scientist must be the frequency with which new acquaintances feel compelled to drop the phrase “It’s not rocket science!” into conversation.
- Random thought: how many jobs at the Washington Post could have been saved if Bezos/Amazon hadn’t spent $75m on the Melania documentary nobody wanted to watch?
- “I leave to your own devices … your phone is the best relationship you have now, the first thing you pick up in the morning and the last thing you touch at night.” A telling, yet sad, line from Kara Swisher’s Burn Book: A Tech Love Story (2024)
- I haven’t heard of Rob McClure but his blistering attack on Trump’s mismanagement of the Kennedy Centre is hilariously accurate: apple.news/AP5SO31hYRoq...
- Full football misery bingo card for the Foxes on Saturday. Early red card ✔️ Injured midfielder ✔️ Missed penalty ✔️ Fans leaving before final whistle ✔️ Pundits insisting we’re too good to go down ✔️
- “In books and magazines on how to be and what to see, while you are being, before and after photographs teach how to pass from reaching to believing”. Janis Ian’s finest song ‘Between The Lines’ is brilliant, acerbic and prophetic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSmS...
- These posts are islands of sanity in a mad world.
