St.Paul’s Cathedral
May 25th, 2008 by Eats Wombats
AA Gill has a fine piece about St.Paul’s Cathedral in the latest Sunday Times. In a city with many iconic buildings, it is the most iconic of all — hence its prominence in the photograph at the head of this blog. I confess I have yet to visit it. It’s one of those things that’s just there, part of the landscape… which is why the very end of the article is so satisfying. I’ve visited the cathedrals of Saints Basil, Peter, Mark and Patrick, and a few more on my travels, but never this one. Alas, the online article lacks the colour photographs from the magazine.
I need to set aside time to catch up with my newspaper backlog. Either that or just toss the lot. The older the news, the faster I can get through it; and the best bits tend not to be news. Maybe I should only read old newspapers? Or perhaps just The Economist? And Business Week, and… alas I am news junkie.
Does The Economist have a training department I wonder — a place where one learns the ropes making Economist type puns and elegant jokes? The worse the economy, and the deeper the ordure the governement is in, the sharper the writing. The skewering of Gordon Brown in just about all of the papers lately has been a sight to behold. Not just democracy at work but wicked humour.
Whatever about monumental buildings, London is home to a lot of very fine scribblers. Why, one has even been elected Mayor.
