Whining and Dining
What is the future of news? I don’t know, do you? What I do know is that for my daily junk, I don’t especially mind who it comes from and I’m not inclined to pay for it. At the fine dining end of the spectrum, if Daniel Finkelstein, Matthew Parris, Charles Moore and Andrew Davidson would like to form a quality journalism publishing skunkworks, I will happily pay the four of them ten pounds a month to read everything they have to say about anything they care to write about, if that allows them to write more often.
Speaking of fine dining, over on Comment Central, and inspired by this excellent list from the New York Times, Hattie Garlick wants to know what your pet peeves are about restaurants. I’ve given her eight of mine to be getting on with. For some reason, the memory of my six months going through Disney’s training process in Florida lingers on…