The university of no grass

The university of no grass
15th June, 2007
It has come to my attention that the London School of Economics and Political Science may be unique in that it is the only university in the UK with no grass on campus, anywhere. I do not mean to say that patches of weeds are unable to settle in [...]

Last leg

I don’t think I am the right kind of person to get into a debate about football but nevermind. I have always imagined that one must be slightly overweight and half drunk to command the sort of presence needed to get one’s point across in a noisy pub-like environment. Nevertheless, here is what I have [...]

Effortless

Some friends seem to be oddly interested in my wannabe-journalistic exploits so I am going to post up another sample article purposefully written for another internship position. This one is for the Financial Times. With a restrictive 500-word limit, I am not sure how they are going to judge the entries and this feels like [...]

My sin, my soul.

I have finally managed to send off one internship application. This one needed a huge 1000-word sample article. And it is not even the one I really want to do. This is the Nico Colchester Fellowship prize offered jointly by the FT and The Economist, which (I think) lets one write about politics and/or Europe [...]