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Give him credit

Mohsin Hamid is far from my favourite writer – not keen on his books or his writing, not keen on his shtick, and a conversation with him some years ago was memorably infuriating. But I thought this, in today’s FT, was quietly well-phrased: I am not a military expert. But I am familiar with what […]

Day 2 of too many

Day 2 was marginally better than day 1, in that I found some work to do, but not much. In the evening I had a pleasant chat with the chief editor of our magazine. We are discussing how to set up a charity to accept small payments for workshops etc, so that the magazine can […]

Day 1 of too many

Today was the first day of a new contract, and it felt quite dismal. This is for the contract for which I was interviewed without realising it about a month ago. For one, it’s a far more corporate setup than I was prepared for (though I should have been), with corporate email address, Microsoft Teams, […]

Old town crowds

The GF had a day off – he, unlike me, gets public holidays – and in the afternoon, after I had finished some work, we took the tram over to the Sultanahmet area, planning to take advantage of thinned crowds on a Monday to visit a few sites. It turned out to be very crowded […]