Julian Linley: Try subbing the Hartlepool Mail
This very magazine carries a column called My Week which recently featured the editor of Heat, a certain Julian Linley.…
ByGrey Cardigan
Liz Jones: Kicking down the confessional door
Kicking down the door of the confessional in a Mail on Sunday spread is our old friend Liz-fucking-Jones, who once…
ByShaun Robinson: Proactive PR
Well here’s some proactive PR. Someone called Shaun Robinson has written to hacks in the North West in the following…
ByRobert Peston: increasingly bizarre on air
I’m becoming concerned for the sanity of BBC News’s business editor Robert Peston. Propelled into the spotlight on an almost…
ByThese days, you can’t sack a piss-pot just because you feel like it
I don’t know the chief sub-editor awarded nearly £21,000 by an employment tribunal after he was unfairly dismissed by Northeast…
BySubs still get stick
We subs still get stick from people who don’t appreciate the craft. Take this comment, from another website: ‘I just…
ByHacks’ best words belong in 60pt
When I walked into The Shivering Whippet after work on Friday evening, Giles Coren’s coruscating criticisms were the main topic…
ByGiles Coren’s rant: ‘over-written, incoherent, bad-tempered, potty-mouthed’
The festering scab that is the relationship between writers and subs is suppurating again after The Guardian resurrected an angry…
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