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Christina Gombar: Kate Jennings, 22 August 2002

Moral Hazard 
by Kate Jennings.
Fourth Estate, 180 pp., £10, April 2002, 1 84115 737 6
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... journalism, and overdoing it with a can-you-believe-it real or faux naivety that fails to ignite. Jennings does get it right, capturing the hectic, oppressive, high-adrenaline ambience while sparing us the gee whiz. Cath’s immediate boss is such a workaholic he has been known to sleep under his desk; another executive is in the habit of ‘appearing ...

Hatpin through the Brain

Jonathan Meades: Closing Time for the Firm, 9 June 2022

The Palace Papers 
by Tina Brown.
Century, 571 pp., £20, April, 978 1 5291 2470 5
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... another privately educated euphemism, found in the Spectator, this time referring to the former Kate Middleton: ‘She may still have her V-plates intact … the age-old requisite for future queen consorts.’ The equation of young women and toilets is gross and the far side of misogyny but it’s only to be expected in a tampophiliac family with a fondness ...

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