Archive for the ‘Satire’ Category
Today’s posting is gluten-free
18 Dec 2019Just the other day a truck drove past me advertising potato crisps – gluten-free. Very commendable. There was only one…
A senior cabinet politician writes…
05 Dec 2019A SENIOR CABINET POLITICIAN WRITES With elections that nobody wants coming up fast everywhere, people have been asking me what…
Does satire work?
06 Nov 2019DOES SATIRE WORK? I’m just finishing a book about satire. Satire is flourishing. We satirists like to think that we…
Behind the Headlines: From Britain to Hollywood (and back)
15 Oct 2019Britain to Hollywood All my life I’ve been telling stories. At first, I made up stories to get out of…
Impress your friends – Your biggest eReader problem solved at last
02 Oct 2019Your biggest e-reader problem solved The Harris Institute for Social and Self-Improvement For Individuals and Teams (HISSIFIT) has been working…
How to create a character that lives
20 Sep 2019HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER THAT LIVES This week I talked to Bonnie D Graham on her radio programme Read…
Finnish humour. Review of Palm Beach Finland by Antti Tuomainen
14 Aug 2019Review of Palm Beach Finland Last year, I sat with the Finnish novelist Antti Tuomainen on a panel for the…
The roller-coaster ride of publishing a novel
04 Jul 2019THE ROLLER-COASTER RIDE OF PUBLISHING A NOVEL It’s not often that a writer gets to blow his own trumpet, but…
Ukraine elected a comedian president – so what do politicians think of voters?
24 Apr 2019Last Sunday, the voters of Ukraine elected a comedian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy won the election despite having zero experience of…
