Last week would have been the 99th birthday of William Burroughs. A great writer (in patches) and a key member of the Beat Generation Burroughs…
James Bond has one identity but many personalities. There’s Sean Connery’s suave savagery and there’s Roger Moore’s eyebrows wiggling their way through Confessions of a Secret Agent.
A couple of weeks on from the Diamond Jubilee I’m still not sure why it is supposed to have made me feel particularly proud to…
Drowned out by Hackgate this summer was another spectacular story of media self-immolation. Johann Hari, columnist at the Independent, winner of the prestigious Orwell Prize,…
I was back from university for the summer and working in my local pub. I worked in bars at uni so I’d been given the…
Image by Fergal of Claddagh ‘What Is History?’ E. H. Carr asked in the title of his famous book. Nothing objective, he argued, saying, “The…
At quarter past two you could see the Police helicopter swinging wide loops in the sky over Whipps Cross at the far end of Hoe…