AA Gill is away.
11 December 2016 10:09 amThe HELL 2016? I didn't even know he was ill...
The Sunday Times: AA Gill, giant of journalism, dies aged 62
BBC: AA Gill: Final article describes cancer fight
In case you didn't know, AA Gill and Jeremy Clarkson were BFFs. I adored their articles. I adored AA Gill full stop. He was basically the reason we bought The Sunday Times for YEARS. (We stopped about a year ago because £2.50 is bloody expensive, and its been drifting to the right.) I still remember the very first article of his I read. It was a food critic piece, and he'd taken some friends to an Egyptian restaurant. It was situated under a hospital. The food was indescribable (as in, odd and mostly unpleasant) but his ability to describe the indescribable made such an impression on me (heck, I still remember it twenty years later!!) that I made a point om checking out what else he wrote...
Dammit. This is NOT OK.
And everyone - go buy The Sunday Times Today. (Or you can read it online - you get two free stories if you register online.) Article in question is here:
AA Gill: “More life with your kids, more life with your friends, more life spent on earth — but only if you pay”
AA Gill used to think that being an NHS patient was like travelling second class on a train, grittier than first class, but in the end everyone ended up at the same destination. But in his farewell piece he tells of his discovery of a drug not available on the NHS ...
The Sunday Times: AA Gill, giant of journalism, dies aged 62
BBC: AA Gill: Final article describes cancer fight
Please please please read The Sunday Times today.
— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) December 11, 2016
In case you didn't know, AA Gill and Jeremy Clarkson were BFFs. I adored their articles. I adored AA Gill full stop. He was basically the reason we bought The Sunday Times for YEARS. (We stopped about a year ago because £2.50 is bloody expensive, and its been drifting to the right.) I still remember the very first article of his I read. It was a food critic piece, and he'd taken some friends to an Egyptian restaurant. It was situated under a hospital. The food was indescribable (as in, odd and mostly unpleasant) but his ability to describe the indescribable made such an impression on me (heck, I still remember it twenty years later!!) that I made a point om checking out what else he wrote...
Dammit. This is NOT OK.
And everyone - go buy The Sunday Times Today. (Or you can read it online - you get two free stories if you register online.) Article in question is here:
AA Gill: “More life with your kids, more life with your friends, more life spent on earth — but only if you pay”
AA Gill used to think that being an NHS patient was like travelling second class on a train, grittier than first class, but in the end everyone ended up at the same destination. But in his farewell piece he tells of his discovery of a drug not available on the NHS ...
