Declan Cashin

Writing: the art of applying the ass to the seat

My feature on the Sarkozy trip to the UK in the Review section of today´s Independent

Don’t you just hate when your favourite soap opera focuses on one boring plot at the expense of a far more exciting one in the background?
That’s how it felt this week watching the latest developments in the world’s most entertaining real-life super-soap, Blingasty, starring French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his glamorous wife Carla Bruni. On the day that France’s first couple touched down in the UK for a two-day state visit, a picture emerged of Mme Bruni-Sarkozy from 1993 in which she artfully posed in the nude, only barely covering her modesty. Mon dieu! Continue here.

A Gore-y end to the Democratic stalemate? Read here.

Feature on Katie Price, her baffling (?) success and her new reality show in today’s Independent.

Say what you like about former glamour model Jordan — and no doubt you have — but there’s no denying that the savvy celeb has built an enormous and lucrative empire out of her two biggest assets: her names. Continue here.

Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Banks (Definitely Maybe) will play George W and Laura Bush in Oliver Stone’s forthcoming Dubya biopic. James Cromwell will play George I and Jeffrey Wright is in talks to star as Colin Powell. Read here.

Addicted to texts and emails? You could be mentally ill. Read here.

Hillary’s ‘experience’ under the spotlight. Oops! See here

On what dates was Hillary actually present in the White House while Bill was canoodling with Monica? Read all the grisly details here and here if that’s your sort of thing.

I need a pseudonym for reasons that I can’t elaborate on right now. So farI’ve come up with Hilary Wanks and Sigourney Beaver. Not sure how print-friendly they are though?

Any other suggestions?

Donal Lynch from the Sunday Independent is up and running in the blogowhatsit. Check out his site here.