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Category Archives: Journalism

Bollcks to the new-born king!

Monday, December 7, 2015

Troll(ing) the ancient Yuletide carol. — For The Spectator

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Our foreign colleagues

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Review of Tell Spring Not to Come This Year. — For The Spectator

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Blessed are the speechmakers?

Saturday, April 4, 2015

A back-handed tribute to President William Henry Harrison. — For The Spectator

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Fools’ Charter

Monday, March 16, 2015

A trip to see all four surviving originals of the Magna Carta. — For The Spectator

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‘Beyond describing’

Monday, February 2, 2015

A documentary about a documentary about the Holocaust – reviewed. — For The Spectator

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Debriefed by Captain Underpants

Thursday, January 15, 2015

A day out in darkest South Wimbledon, with David Gandy and Rich Hardcastle. — For The Spectator

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St Paul’s (Knightsbridge) and the Great War

Monday, November 10, 2014

A blog piece for Culture House on the Royal Naval mobilisation of the Rev Wilfrid Hannay Gibbins, and the parish mags of a church in West London over the course of the First World War. — For The Spectator

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Flak Jacket to Dust Jacket

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Men at War: What Fiction Tells Us About Conflict, from The Iliad to Catch-22 By Christopher Coker (Hurst 325pp £25) My Life as a Foreign Country By Brian Turner (Jonathan Cape 240pp £16.99) Seamus Heaney once remarked upon the heroes of antiquity that it is ‘not so much their procedures on the page which are […]

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Eight debut novels

Monday, September 1, 2014

Currently sitting at 12 to 1 for this year’s Booker Prize, first-time novelist Paul Kingsnorth has set the cat among the pigeons through the disarmingly original expedient of submitting his offering in a fictional language. Composed in what Kingsnorth calls the ‘shadow tongue’ of ‘eald anglisc’, The Wake (Unbound 365pp £16.99) explores one angle of […]

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End of the Line

Thursday, July 3, 2014

The Narrow Road to the Deep North By Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus 448pp £16.99) ‘We will die, and who will ever understand any of this?’ So asks Colonel Dorrigo Evans, second in command of the Australian Imperial Force’s 2/7th Casualty Clearing Station, slave worker on the Siam–Burma ‘Death Railway’, and redoubtable hero of Richard […]

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