http://standpointmag.co.uk Welcome to the Standpoint magazine, the culture and politics monthly en /node/3269 <!--paging_filter--><p>Reporters do not always treat subs well. On occasion, when pushed beyond endurance by the cutting of our best lines, or a puritan purge of all our gags, we tell the old joke about the plane carrying a sub and a reporter crashing in the Sahara. For three days they walk through the burning heat until finally they collapse, skin burning, throats parched, at the base of a huge sand dune. 'Let us just climb to the top of the dune,' croaks the reporter.<p><a href="/node/3269"><span>read more</span></a></p> /node/3269#comments Simon Heffer Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:06:46 +0100 Nick Cohen 3269 at http://standpointmag.co.uk