Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
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I’ve done a very silly Green thing
01 May 2024A VERY SILLY GREEN THING I’ve just done a very silly thing. A few years ago, BBC radio presenter John…
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Act of Oblivion – Robert Harris
25 May 2023ACT OF OBLIVION Why should we care? It’s probably the most important question a storyteller needs to answer. It’s particularly…
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Staggering Hubris by Josh Berry – review
08 Jul 2022STAGGERING HUBRIS You’re a staggeringly brilliant spad (special adviser) working in Downing Street in the early days of a new…
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Alexei Sayle without the drunken lunches
13 May 2021ALEXEI SAYLE WITHOUT THE DRUNKEN LUNCHES In 2007, Channel 4 viewers voted Alexei Sayle the 18th greatest stand-up comic of…
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Nine long years for Julian Assange
03 May 2021NINE LONG YEARS FOR JULIAN ASSANGE Watch now Eleven years ago, Julian Assange published the first of a series of…
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Why I love writing thrillers
27 Nov 2020WHY I LOVE WRITING THRILLERS My twice award-nominated noir thriller The Breaking of Liam Glass officially comes out in its…
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Everything is copy – review of Nora Ephron Collected
15 May 2020NORA EPHRON COLLECTED I don’t know about you but I am a sucker for Nora Ephron’s screenplay for When Harry…
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Angry movies at the Baftas
29 Jan 2020ANGRY MOVIES AT THE BAFTAS We live in angry times, it seems. So I shouldn’t have been surprised when I…
