Sunday, December 9, 2018

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How many columnar inches can the Greatest Living Foreign Correspondent make from his escaping a P45 ?

John Simpson has given his most-angst ridden version of his recent employment as the BBC's World Affairs Editor to British Airways High-Life Magazine. International passengers are treated to analogies featuring Dr Manette in Dickens, Joseph in Exodus, Henry V (in Shakespeare's Henry V1 pt 2), gobbets of information about Pope Benedict XVI and Agrippina, all in the name of adding excitement to a struggle to keep his job, told with a nod to a David Lynch screenplay. "Who was going to be the new boss ? Might they also want to bundle me out into the exercise yard to be shot through the back of the neck for being old ?"

If you don't stop going on about it, Johnny, I suspect they might....As it is, John writes from the Jianguo Hotel in Bejing, four stars, water gardens and fine French dining in Justine's, handy for both the diplomatic and silk quarters, where he's already been measured for some shirts, met up with his old friend, the doorman Mr Lee - and managed some "unforgettable meals with the members of my team, all of whom have become close personal friends over the years. These are a few of the pleasures of being on the road as a television journalist  - and I've missed them terribly".

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