“Whitaker's Little Book of Knowledge” (published by Bloomsbury)

On a need-to-know basis

23 May 2018 - 10.05 AM

There’s an old truism that journalists should know a lot about a little and a little about a lot. It applies to other people too, of course, but, well, perhaps it is particularly apposite to the Fourth Estate. The ultimate would be to know a lot about a lot, but we can’t all be geniuses. For us, we’ve always felt fairly secure about the “lot about a little” part because we have our obsessions and deep interests, but not so confident about the “little about a lot”: we confess there are glaring gaps in our knowledge, even after all these years. “Whitaker's Little Book of Knowledge” is just the remedy.

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On a need-to-know basis

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