James Hookway

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Supposed to be in London but often somewhere else for The Wall Street Journal. Ok, in Scotland. Also at [email protected]

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The Sportscaster Who Scored Big Writing About Spoons, Urinals and Coat Hangers

Dec 1, 2024 | wsj.com | James Hookway

Not too long ago, Adrian Chiles was riding high as a sports host fronting World Cup soccer coverage and British breakfast TV shows. When his career lost a little steam, he started writing about wooden spoons. It opened a whole new world. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
The Sportscaster Who Scored Big Writing About Spoons, Urinals and Coat Hangers

Dec 1, 2024 | yahoo.com | James Hookway

Not too long ago, Adrian Chiles was riding high as a sports host fronting World Cup soccer coverage and British breakfast TV shows. When his career lost a little steam, he started writing about wooden spoons. While other columnists bang on about politics, Chiles, 57, uses his weekly columns at the Guardian newspaper to ponder what it means to have a favorite burger flipper or sift through the memories bound up in an old coat hanger.
The Sportscaster Who Scored Big Writing About Spoons, Urinals and Coat Hangers

Dec 1, 2024 | flipboard.com | James Hookway

Final World Rugby rankings after last Test of 2024There was one more instalment of international rugby this past weekend as Ireland edged out Australia 22-19 in a scrappy encounter in what was the …
Menacés d'extinction, les aristocrates britanniques luttent de manière étrange pour leur survie

Nov 14, 2024 | lopinion.fr | James Hookway

LONDRES — Le comte Attlee aime à raconter une blague aux visiteurs de la Chambre des lords, la vieille chambre haute britannique, où lui et d’autres aristocrates se penchent sur les lois proposées par les roturiers de la chambre du dessous.
Facing Extinction, Britain’s Aristocrats Make a Curious Case for Survival

Nov 5, 2024 | wsj.com | James Hookway

Listen to article(1 minute)LONDON—There’s a joke The Earl Attlee likes to tell visitors to the House of Lords, Britain’s ancient upper chamber, where he and other aristocrats mull over laws proposed by the commoners in the chamber below. “How many lords does it take to change a lightbulb?” asked the 68-year-old, who is also known as John Attlee. He leaned forward over a cup of tea, eyes twinkling. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Facing Extinction, Britain’s Aristocrats Make a Curious Case for Survival

Nov 5, 2024 | flipboard.com | James Hookway

Molly Ivins’ Appeal to Us All from the Great Beyond Actually from her classic 2004 column: Look at it this way. Voting whitens your teeth, sweetens your …
The Question Trailing Tim Walz: Is He Irish?

Oct 14, 2024 | wsj.com | James Hookway

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Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Japanese Atomic-Bomb Survivors Group

Oct 11, 2024 | wsj.com | James Hookway

Updated Oct. 11, 2024 7:40 am ETThe Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic-bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the group of survivors, who are known as Hibakusha, is receiving the prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
South Korean Author Han Kang Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature

Oct 10, 2024 | msn.com | James Hookway

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South Korean Author Han Kang Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature

Oct 10, 2024 | wsj.com | James Hookway

The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”The Swedish Academy in Stockholm credited her for her unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead and for her innovative and experimental style.