New Zealand weaned spin-king appointed to Buckingham Palace

We are amused – a colonial has been given the job of putting spin on the damming corgi stories (head of public relations for HM the Q). Currently head of communications for British Airways, South African born Simon Walker was formerly communications director for the New Zealand Labour Party and protagonist in a notorious TV debate with the late Prime Minister Rob Muldoon.


Tags: British Airways  Labour Party  Rob Muldoon  Simon Walker  Telegraph (The)  

Mansfield’s “Bliss” considered a “paragon of modernist literature”

Mansfield’s “Bliss” considered a “paragon of modernist literature”

“Influence in writing is often spoken about as something dirty or shameful, something to be avoided, but here it offers a way for artists to connect across decades, to find courage…