Brief Encounters 
Andrew O’Hagan
- Gielgud's Letters edited by Richard Mangan
- Secret Dreams: A Biography of Michael Redgrave by Alan Strachan
Norman Tebbit announced the other day that Tony Blair’s government had made both obesity and Aids in this country much worse by doing ‘everything it can to promote buggery’. Aside from anything else, this comment might cause us to reflect (buggerishly) on the England beloved of bigots like Tebbit and to see it as a land not only of warm beer and cricket on the village green, but also, more significantly, of generations of excellent buggers performing on radio, stage and television, warming the cockles of English hearts and occasionally laying down their trousers in pursuit of their genius.
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Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, has been shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Other articles by this contributor:
Cartwheels over Broken Glass · worshipping Morrissey
Iraq, 2 May 2005 · Two Soldiers
The Nominee · With the Democrats
At the Design Museum · Peter Saville
Everything Must Go! · American Beauties
A Journey in the South · Andrew O’Hagan travels to New Orleans
In His Hot Head · Robert Louis Stevenson
Hating Football · Andrew O’Hagan deserts the Tartan Army
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