Summary
THE patron saint of journalists and writers is St Francis de Sales, a 17th century Bishop of Geneva who once famously remarked that more flies were attracted to a spoonful of honey than to a barrel full of vinegar.
That the circulation department sounds his more natural home is neither here nor there.See the full content of this document
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Gadfly - Anorakism - a Sign of the Times?
Were there to be a patron saint of daily columnists, it would surely be Mr Micawber, he whose favourite saying - as Dickens observed in David Copperfield - was that something would turn up.
Today's column is thus particularly grateful to the blessed Tim Stahl in Darlington, who in a story about bus li...See the full content of this document
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