Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
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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…
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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…
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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…
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How truth-telling in Chicago led to a unique new law
17 Apr 2019Truth-telling in Chicago On February 9th 1982, a man grabbed a Chicago policeman’s gun in the street and shot him…