Journalism
Sacred calves
Parental regret should be taboo — because the children might be listening
What’s told is news again
Not much has changed since Philip Gibbs’ forgotten classic lifted the lid on early 20th century Fleet Street
Freelancers cannot afford shame
Journalist and actor Denis Tuohy has written a rewarding collection worthy of his colourful career
Lessons from life
How the facts of Hannah Arendt’s life read like fiction
Why won’t the BBC debate me?
Trying to bring large, arrogant public institutions to book is exhausting
Inside the small town newspaper
How my first editor taught me to report “without fear or favour”
Angels, demons and videotape
What American journalism’s “teaching moments” teach us about American journalism
Spain and me
David Smith on why the years following Franco’s death will always hold a place in his heart
Afiya and me: searching for East Africa’s lost tribe
David Smith recalls his time as a journalist covering the devastating famine in Karamoja, northern Uganda, in the 1980s
Arafat and me
David Smith on the time he spent with Yasir Arafat, the former Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization