Acouple of weeks back, a few old friends got together after what felt like far too long. We made sandwiches for lunch, messed about on a boat during the afternoon, for we had met by the seaside, then had a barbecue and a few beers in the evening. Nothing of any importance happened.
So why mention it now? Because the careers of those present have gone in dramatically different directions since we all worked on in the 1990s. A couple are extremely famous, one supplies copy to a large number of the country’s biggest newspapers, another edits
