Note to the editor of the FT: sack Amity Shlaes now
September 6th, 2005
Amity Shlaes in the Financial Times: “The level of preparedness for a giant storm may not have been obvious outside the country. But the US was prepared for Katrina. All the old and new federal offices worked together and confronted the storm early.” (Thankfully available to subscribers only.)
I’ve always thought she was the world’s worst columnist for one of the world’s best newspapers. Her most recent column should be the last straw if Andrew Gowers is reading his own paper.
Just the facts
September 6th, 2005
I look forward to receiving my weekly copy of The New Yorker, but I expect higher standards of fact-checking than they seem to muster at the moment.
The current issue has an article by Adam Gopnik which is largely about a restaurant called St John’s. The opening sentence refers to Smithfield market in the “East End” of London.
Anyone familiar with London will know that Smithfield isn’t remotely in the East End. It is in a western corner of the City of London. The East End lies to the east of the City.