15.08.12 - Au Revoir NAM

My last day in the office. It felt weird walking out thinking that I might never see those people again. I am going to be their London corespondent, whether I’ll ever write anything I don’t know but it’s nice to have that connection.

I used my lunch break to send my framed photo to San Diego. The framing is fine, nothing more I can do apart form hope that it arrives. I have also been contacted by Vogue, asking if I want to be part of a photography advertorial. I have to pay of course but I am going to do it, might as well. Then I can be ‘as featured in Vogue’.

I have started packing up my things, hoping that what I am going to leave behind amounts to the same as new things that I have bought.

I have spent the last couple of evenings trying to finish the large tome on Hugh Trevor Roper. Nearly there. 

Here is Mr T-R’s chilling opinion on Murdoch. “‘He aims to moronise and Americanise the population’ and ‘wants to destroy our institutions, to rot them with a daily corrosive acid’. Hugh speculated about the psychological reason for this attitude. As an undergraduate at Oxford Murdoch had been very left-wing, and had displayed a poster of Lenin on the wall of his room. Hugh recognised that Murdoch tended to appoint peers to the board of Times Newspapers Limited, as if to say, ‘All these people are buyable, they’re digging their own graves for me.”