The book I remembered; the author I forgot. Not that I ever read the book. I just read about it in Anthony Burgess’s Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 – A Personal Choice (1984). One of the choices was called Riddley Walker and Burgess lavished praise on it. He described how it used […]
Liberals love war, and if Kamala or Gavin was president they…
Yuck! Stale pale males. They’re the worst of the wickedest, the vilest of the villainous. That’s what all decent and caring progressive folk are agreed upon. But this raises what you might call a prosoponic paradox (prosōpon is ancient Greek for “face”). In Britain, the proudly progressive Labour Party has traditionally been the home of […]
When I think about Ian Brady, I think about a bench. Ian Brady was a British serial-killer who raped and murdered five children in the 1960s. And what about the bench? It had no direct connection with Brady. It was simply a memorial put up beside a footpath by the parents of a son who […]
The English author John Le Carré is best known for his novels of Cold-War espionage. His most famous character, George Smiley, has the following to say on the subject: The obsession of the two great economic systems with each other’s identity, intentions, strengths, and weaknesses had produced by the 1970s a state of mutual watchfulness […]
Dying young. It turns performers into legends and politicians into footnotes. For proof of that, just compare James Dean (1931-55) with John Smith (1938-94). Seventy-one years after he died in a car-crash, the actor James Dean is still famous, still at the heart of a devoted cult. Thirty-two years after he died of a heart-attack, […]
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