Patrick Barkham

Profile: Full name: Patrick Barkham Area of interest: A variety of topics, including technology, film and television Journals/Organisation: The Guardian Email: patrick.barkham@guardian.co.uk Personal website: Website: Guardian.co / Patrick Barkham Blogs: Comment is free; The Blog Art & Architecture Representation: Networks:

Biography: About: Education: MA journalism Career: worked for FT.com and ITN Online; joined The Guardian in 1998, becaming Australia correspondent in 2000 Current position/role: Feature writer and interviewer also writes/has written for: Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Doctoring the past - Wiki style The Guardian, 10th February 2006 Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

Books & Debate: Latest work: Speaking/Appearances: Current debate:The Virginia Tech tragedy debate: Were reporters right to solicit information from students' web pages? - Yes, says Guardian feature writer Patrick Barkham; no, argues journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, The Guardian, 23rd April 2007

The Guardian: Column name: Remit/Info: features and interviews, occasionally comment or overlapping into comment Section: Role: Features writer Pen-name: Email: patrick.barkham@guardian.co.uk Website: Guardian.co / Patrick Barkham Commissioning editor: Day published: Regularity: Column format: Average length:

Articles: Slaughtering badgers is not the answer to bovine TB - Bovine TB causes farmers real misery. But shooting badgers is just a cheap way to spread the disease - 16th December 2011 Britain to Australia and back again: what's the Ping-pong Poms' game? - I sometimes wonder why, despite my great life in Australia, I came home. But unlike others, I haven't bounced back again - 3rd November 2011 AA Gill's spittle-flecked indignation is of no consequence to Norfolk - The critic's recycled braying about anywhere outside London perplexes those who don't spend all day tweeting and sneering - 3rd March 2011 Bring back British Rail - Thanks to privatisation, our rail network is incapable of adapting to any minor malfunctions – as I discovered this weekend - 15th December 2008 Men need armpit hair solutions too - Unilever is launching a range of deodorants that promise to reduce armpit hair – but why are they only for women? - 9th December 2008 How to humiliate an overpaid footballer - It is obvious that red cards, suspensions and fines do nothing to improve the behaviour of our spoilt-brat footballers - 17th November 2008 Has Russell Brand turned to Hare Krishna? - The mantra beloved of bald people swathed in orange is a strange form of 'no comment' for a show-off comedian in trouble - 30th October 2008 The ministerial race to drive the cleanest car - The new big cabinet split is whether to choose a Jag or a Prius as an official car - 23rd October 2008 Sleepless in SW1 - The financial crisis is keeping politicians from their beds with rounds of all-night meetings. Is this wise? How much sleep deprivation can anyone take before their judgment takes a fall, asks Patrick Barkham - 14th October 2008 What's in a wink? - Some find it reassuring, others downright sinister. We look at some of the many prominent winkers, from Sarah Palin to David Niven - 6th October 2008 Who will be worst hit by the financial crisis? - Meet the winner and loser of the financial crisis - Mrs Saffy AS Houses and Mr Cred C Runch - 1st October 2008 The tragic tale of a celebrity polar bear and his keeper - Zookeeper Thomas Doerflein plays with Knut the polar bear at Berlin Zoo at the height of his fame in 2007 - 24th September 2008 What do estate agents do all day? - In terms of sales inquiries, estate agents are doing virtually zero - 13th August 2008 Can open fields be turned into forest? - Despite its reputation as a green and pleasant land, much of Britain's ancient woodland has been lost. Now the Woodland Trust plans to transform 850 acres of Hertfordshire countryside into England's biggest new continuous forest - 30th July 2008 Oops! There goes another Warhol - the art that can't be moved - Famous art does more air miles than ever these days and even respected galleries can damage work - 22nd July 2008 What is the knowledge economy? - The term can be misleading but it's a description of the changing nature of the economy - 17th July 2008 Golly! What has Camilla got in her bag? - Patrick Barkham: Burberry bags don't usually come with a golliwog keyring. But there it was, the smiling racist totem, among the belongings of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, at the Hampton Court flower show - 9th July 2008 What are people pawning? - When credit crunches, pawnbrokers cheer - 7th July 2008 The craze that made even Clarkson join the slow lane - Hypermiling, the art of driving your car so it delivers better fuel economy, is going mainstream in the UK as fuel prices soar - 3rd July 2008

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