One Summer in America

Eliot Weinberger, 26 September 2019

... mass influx of people coming across our border.’ Pence claims that when he visited one camp ‘we spoke to cheerful children who were watching television, having snacks.’*On his state visit to the UK and France to commemorate the Normandy landing, the president of the United States is distressed to find that Fox News is not available, and calls on ...

Criminal Justice

Ronan Bennett, 24 June 1993

... hands of the Director of Public Prosecutions with a view to criminal proceedings being brought. We earnestly express the hope that nothing will be allowed to stand in the way of a speedy progress of those proceedings.’ I felt the need to pinch myself. Was this the same Lord Lane I had watched over the course of several weeks in 1987 when he presided over ...

The Tower

Andrew O’Hagan, 7 June 2018

... leave him,”’ he told me. ‘My daughter Fethia sent me messages every day – “Daddy, come, we need you. Daddy come.” When the council gave us the flat, I worked it upside down, and changed everything, making it beautiful. And when the woman came from the TMO’ – the Tenant Management Organisation – ‘she was shocked at how different it now ...