“... madonna of bother, into everlasting power.Iain Sinclair, 27 February 1992The picture which Nigel Lawson draws of Thatcher herself is a remarkable testimony to the manner in which her government’s grand strategy was determined. Increasingly, ideas were translated into policy via will, whim and pique. The advice of responsible ministers was superseded ... ”
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Iain Sinclair: Eccentric Pilgrims, 30 June 2016
“... syphilis of time, played so well, on an anvil of whitewashed cement, alongside a municipal bowling green, that it became the provocation for a pedestrian expedition testing the Brexit boundaries of a timeless mead-hall England, before the fleet of plundering Papist Normans came sailing over the horizon. Just as tabloid gangs of Albanian drug-trafficking white ... ”
Madder Men
Hal Foster: Richard Hamilton on Richard Hamilton, 24 October 2019
Richard Hamilton: Introspective
by Phillip Spectre.
König, 408 pp., £49, September 2019,978 3 88375 695 0 Show More
by Phillip Spectre.
König, 408 pp., £49, September 2019,
“... formal study, Hamilton entered the Slade, where he met two future IG cronies, Eduardo Paolozzi and Nigel Henderson. He was especially fond of Henderson, whom he found ‘well educated, quick-witted and streetwise, on friendly terms with just about everyone worth knowing in the art world of London, and blessed with a generosity of spirit that he showed by ... ”
Diary
Norman Buchan: In Defence of the Word, 1 October 1987
“... the press is free because it is free from government control. In parallel, the later Government Green Paper calls for a ‘lighter’ regulation in commercial radio. The Government simply cannot take on board that at the present time regulation is the means to secure diversity of opinion and diversity of programme. The truth is that the Peacock exemplar of ... ”
John Sturrock
Mary-Kay Wilmers, 21 September 2017
“... paper. John was the deputy editor, John Gross was the editor. Gross referred to John as the ‘sea-green incorruptible’ and you get the picture; it wasn’t a happy place to work in those days, though the friction between the two principals – the severity of one and the worldliness of the other – worked to the benefit of the paper. John was definitely ... ”
Diary
Iain Sinclair: Out of Essex, 8 January 2004
“... near Rainham Marshes, rendered as a grid of delicately balanced reds and pinks, with just enough green to cancel the headache. This, so often, is how it works; synergy, they call it. You scratch my back. Matthews is a film and television editor of reputation: peer-group respect rather than disposable celebrity. She has contributed to some of the better ... ”
What Nanny Didn’t Tell Me
Bernard Porter: Simon Mann, 26 January 2012
“... appears here, except as a hallucination while he’s in prison. ‘A Thing comes out: bright green, furry, long-legged … The size of a dinner plate, and very cross. It’s Mummy. I stamp. Squelch. Yuk.’ His nanny used to follow marching guardsmen when she took him out in his pram; later she introduced him to war comics and boys’ adventure ... ”
Mischief Wrought
Stephen Sedley: The Compensation Culture Myth, 4 March 2021
Fake Law: The Truth about Justice in an Age of Lies
by the Secret Barrister.
Picador, 400 pp., £20, September 2020,978 1 5290 0994 1 Show More
by the Secret Barrister.
Picador, 400 pp., £20, September 2020,
“... tragic case of another British infant, Alfie Evans, which Fox News and Breitbart, assisted by Nigel Farage, characterised as the practice of eugenics by a state-run medical service.As to the health and safety canards (conkers banned in school playgrounds, sack races banned on sports days, circus artistes required to wear helmets, and on and on), the ... ”
Watching Me Watching Them Watching You
Andrew O’Hagan: Surveillance, 9 October 2003
“... where. Everybody’s doing it.’I sat in front of the screens beside McAlister’s colleague Nigel. In front of us were images of people going about their daily business: parking cars, walking dogs, standing in line, talking into phones, holding hands, spitting, running, standing still and looking at the sky. ... ”
God’s Own
Angus Calder, 12 March 1992
Empire and English Character
by Kathryn Tidrick.
Tauris, 338 pp., £24.95, August 1990,1 85043 191 4 Show More
by Kathryn Tidrick.
Tauris, 338 pp., £24.95, August 1990,
Into Africa: The story of the East African Safari
by Kenneth Cameron.
Constable, 229 pp., £14.95, June 1990,0 09 469770 1 Show More
by Kenneth Cameron.
Constable, 229 pp., £14.95, June 1990,
Burton: Snow upon the Desert
by Frank McLynn.
Murray, 428 pp., £19.95, September 1990,0 7195 4818 7 Show More
by Frank McLynn.
Murray, 428 pp., £19.95, September 1990,
From the Sierras to the Pampas: Richard Burton’s Travels in the Americas, 1860-69
by Frank McLynn.
Barrie and Jenkins, 258 pp., £16.99, July 1991,0 7126 3789 3 Show More
by Frank McLynn.
Barrie and Jenkins, 258 pp., £16.99, July 1991,
The Duke of Puddle Dock: Travels in the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles
by Nigel Barley.
Viking, 276 pp., £16.99, March 1992,0 670 83642 7 Show More
by Nigel Barley.
Viking, 276 pp., £16.99, March 1992,
“... Patterson hunted them down. The railway climbed on, created a little town of corrugated iron and green canvas in an insect-ridden swamp fed by a little river called, in Masai, ‘Nairobi’, meaning ‘cold water’, and drove on to Lake Victoria. As Kenneth Cameron puts it, ‘East Africa had become safariland.’ I was disappointed not to see Cameron’s ... ”
Is this successful management?
R.W. Johnson, 20 April 1989
One of Us: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher
by Hugo Young.
Macmillan, 570 pp., £16.95, April 1989,0 333 34439 1 Show More
by Hugo Young.
Macmillan, 570 pp., £16.95, April 1989,
“... between enraged Jewish erstwhile supporters and the traditional Tory worthies on the 19th green can hardly have been easy, and it’s not certain that Denis would have been altogether an asset. All we know for certain is that a new Tory agent was hired in 1962 with the mission of rebuilding the constituency party organisation almost from scratch and ... ”
Diary
Julian Barnes: People Will Hate Us Again, 20 April 2017
“... racism (isn’t it hard to hear English spoken on a train nowadays?). But of course Nigel can’t really be a racist, can he, because he’s got a German wife? (Except that she’s now chucked him out for the Usual Reasons.) Without Farage’s covert and overt endorsement, the smothered bonfire of xenophobia would not have burst into open flame ... ”
Diary
Alan Bennett: What I did in 1995, 4 January 1996
“... too. 20 January. Note how much pleasure I get from anemones. I love their Victorian colours, their green ruffs and how, furry as chestnuts, the blooms gradually open and in so doing turn and arrange themselves in the vase, still retaining their beauty even when almost dead, at every stage of their life delightful. I used to like freesias for their scent (and ... ”
Diary
Melanie McFadyean: In the Wrong Crowd, 25 September 2014
“... in the park on his own. Some of the Shanks and Guns chased him and one of them, 16-year-old Dale Green, stabbed Pearton, who’d got as far as the main road on the edge of the park. He staggered into a takeaway, where he died not long afterwards. Three of the Shanks and Guns boys were given mandatory life sentences for Pearton’s murder and four for ... ”
800 Napkins, 47 Finger Bowls
Zachary Leader, 16 March 2000
Morgan: American Financier
by Jean Strouse.
Harvill, 816 pp., £25, June 1999,9781860463556 Show More
by Jean Strouse.
Harvill, 816 pp., £25, June 1999,
“... estate had put up for sale to avoid death duties. Lady Sackville, described by her grandson Nigel Nicolson as having ‘made a corner in millionaires and lonely elderly artists’ (among them Kipling, Lord Kitchener, W.W. Astor, Rodin, Lutyens and Henry Ford), was determined to get the painting back. She also hoped that Morgan would buy ... ”
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