I have an officially private opinion on the entire Brexit thing, but: there are worse ways to write weekly columns.
How Boris Johnson composes his Telegraph columns (from @soniapurnell's biography) pic.twitter.com/qmKLlS1cAF
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) June 27, 2016
I am particularly taken by the “come up with the absolutely most HORRIBLE idea possible for your column” idea: it sounds like an excellent way to get a handle on what you actually think and then crank out a column accordingly. I may try that the next time I’m stuck for a new idea for a gaming article. Those things are sometimes harder to write than you think; and it’s remarkably easy to write something that’s essentially a duplicate of the piece that you forgot that you wrote six months ago. One of the hidden quirks of this job.
If you don’t mind my asking, why is the opinion officially private?
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Yeah, I know the “politics stops at the water’s edge” ideal died a bloody death about 2 decades ago. But I can’t say I’m happy about it.
Because of some damned good advice from Sam Malone in Cheers: the character was talking about drinking, and he noted that once he stopped drinking he also had to stop doing stuff that he associated with drinking. I used this technique to great effect when it came to staying off of the cigarettes, and I’m using it now. 🙂
It is nice to see a politician who does not seem to care what people think and actively looks for ideas that would wreck his career in a second.