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Khrush in America

Andrew O’Hagan: Khrushchev in America, 8 October 2009

K Blows Top 
by Peter Carlson.
Old Street, 327 pp., £9.99, July 2009, 978 1 905847 30 3
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... the swimmers smiled and shouted back: ‘Nyet.’ ‘Photos of the event reveal a comic scene,’ Peter Carlson writes, ‘the swimmers waving and cheering, Khrushchev beaming and gesturing grandly, Nixon smiling wanly, his formal white shirt buttoned at the cuffs, his sober black tie fastened tightly at his collar. He was not a man with a gift for ...

The Debate

Eliot Weinberger, 26 September 2024

... of Russia.Don was so confident of his party’s eternal rule that he allowed Don Jr and Tucker Carlson to persuade him to anoint, without any vetting, a successor who would embody ‘MAGA: The Next Generation’. JD Vance, formerly known as James Donald Bowman, James David Hamel and J.D. Vance, now strangely rebranded without the stops, is a self-styled ...

The Hard Zone

Andrew O’Hagan: At the Republican National Convention, 1 August 2024

... had reached his enclosure. He shook hands with the doom-slinging former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, then patted Vance on the arm.‘Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!’ the delegates chanted, punching the air. The crowd was delirious and ready for action.‘Now it feels like a convention,’ Franks said.On 16 July​ , at the convention perimeter, a ...

Punishment by Radish

Emily Wilson: Aristophanes Remixed, 21 October 2021

Four Plays 
by Aristophanes, translated by Aaron Poochigian.
Norton, 398 pp., £29.75, March 2021, 978 1 63149 650 9
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... Thee Stallion released ‘WAP’ in August 2020, ‘conservative’ commentators such as Tucker Carlson expressed outrage that the song might corrupt ‘your granddaughters’; Alyssa Rosenberg in the Washington Post celebrated it as an ‘ode to female sexual pleasure’. The video featured the two long-lashed goddesses twerking their way through a gilded ...

Cooked Frog

David Edgar: Orbán’s Hungary, 7 March 2024

Tainted Democracy: Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary 
by Zsuzsanna Szelényi.
Hurst, 438 pp., £25, November 2022, 978 1 78738 802 4
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... Budapest has become a favourite destination for conspiratorialist far-right figures such as Tucker Carlson, who broadcast his Fox News show from Hungary for a week in 2021, and for right-wing bodies like the American Conservative Political Action Conference, which held gatherings in Budapest in 2022 and 2023 (at the meeting last year, Orbán said Hungary was ...

Memoirs of a Pet Lamb

David Sylvester, 5 July 2001

... he is seated on the lawn as one of an assorted company, including John Strachey, Harold Nicolson, Peter Howard and Professor Joad, of prospective Parliamentary candidates. Three years later, when Mosley was starting to move towards Fascism, there were some letters, which are extant, in which my father sought reassurance from Mosley that his brand of Fascism ...

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