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| Archived Since: | April 19, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
It's easy to attack to Christopher Hitchens now he's not around to defend himself
When Evelyn Waugh died, his enemies all came out of the woodwork to write spiteful pieces, or so his son Auberon thought. The point was that these critics were too cowardly to dare attack the fearsome novelist while he was alive, so they pounced when his corpse was hardly cold. Members of the Christopher Hitchens [...]
For years, Iain M Banks has done for sci-fi what George RR Martin did for fantasy. He is two of our finest writers
In Iain M Banks's finest creation, the universe of the Culture, death is largely optional. It's an option most people take in the end: they take it after three or four centuries, after living on a suitably wide variety of planets and in a suitably wide variety of bodies, and after a life of hedonism [...]
Who needs Bieber when you can have the Bible?
My sympathy to those for whom Easter was only about chocolates and bunnies and changing clocks: you’ve missed out, because if you were at all interested in Christianity, it’s been an exciting period. We’ve had crowd-pleasing spectacles, horrendous rows and a stone-casting that the Saudis would be proud of. Let’s start at the beginning. The Bible, [...]
Richard Griffiths: despite his distinctive appearance, he wasn't typecast
Richard Griffiths, who has died after complications following heart surgery, was an actor who, despite his distinctive appearance and demeanour, always resisted typecasting. He was born in the North Riding of Yorkshire to parents who were both deaf, so he learnt sign language as a child. He seems to have had an unsettled childhood, dropped [...]
Kanye West wants to call his baby 'North'. Why must celebrities humiliate their children this way?
Rumour has it that the rapper Kanye West wants to name his new son “North”, which would make his full name North West. If this taste for puns runs in the family, I hope that the boy grows up to write an autobiography titled “North” – so that the front cover will read, “North by [...]
Agatha Christie, the queen of crime
An intersection of coincidences. Mr Editor writes to ask if I’d seen the ITV documentary, “Our Queen”. Had we watched it? Would I write about it? We had watched it, albeit inadvertently, albeit only the end of it. While I’m aware I ought to spend Sunday evenings re-underlining key passages in Ayn Rand, in fact [...]
I was a teenage Belieber once, and I bet you were, too
From Wednesday's Daily Telegraph The “Beliebers”, the fanatical fans of the teen-pop automaton Justin Bieber, are frightening things. They prowl in packs online, shrieking on Twitter for their idol’s attention. They number in their tens of millions, yet seem to have neither a broken voice nor a fully formed thought between them. And they’re in [...]
Justin Bieber apologised for being late on stage? Would Axl Rose do that? Bieber has vomited in rock 'n' roll's face
Kids today don't know they're born, they really don't. In my day, if you went to Wembley Arena and Axl Rose managed to make it on stage before midnight, you considered yourself lucky. In fact I went to see Guns N' Roses (or what's left of them) again last year at the O2, and because [...]
This Charmless Man: no, Morrissey, being gay does not make you a pacifist, and straight men don't love killing
"If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.” Morrissey’s statement is such obvious rubbish it’s not worth arguing with him (neither ancient Thebans nor Joe Orton would likely agree with his reasoning), save to mention that his casual [...]
Skyfall failed at the Oscars because it is ridiculous and overhyped and its James Bond is a weary anachronism
On Saturday evening I sat down to watch Skyfall, which has just been released on DVD. And I did so with a little bit of patriotic pride in my heart. Here was a British film, with a true British hero, to give those swaggering Yank blockbusters a run for their money. OK, it may have [...]
In memory of Richard Briers: why there’s no going back to the good life
From Tuesday's Telegraph: The death of Richard Briers is a sad reminder of the humour and values of a gentler era Anyone who thinks the Seventies was a decade of misery, inexcusable haircuts, appalling taste and grinding poverty really should spare a few moments on YouTube watching one of the classic sitcoms of the era, [...]
This isn't the first time a Coronation Street star has faced potentially career-destroying allegations
Kevin Webster (the actor Michael Le Vell) is not the first Coronation Street star to face potentially catastrophic allegations involving underage girls. Older readers may remember what happened to another actor from that long-running soap, Peter Adamson, back in 1983. Adamson was a hugely famous figure at the time on the basis of his 23 [...]
Kate is ours in the same way Diana was: we cannot be kept at bay
It's taken Kate so little time to conquer the world. Only five years ago, she was a plucky girl bent on regaining her boyfriend. Today, we are in love with her, as we haven't been in love with a public figure since Diana, her late mother-in-law. It's an awesome role to play, and so far [...]
A bit of Fry has become a lorryload. Enough!
From Tuesday's Daily Telegraph The Yiddish word “chutzpah” is usually defined as a man who kills both his parents, then pleads for a lighter sentence on the grounds that he is an orphan. No more. From now on, I’ll define it in just two words: Stephen Fry. We Brits love our national treasures. They come [...]
Chris Brown did a terrible thing. But he has served his time
For how much longer will R&B singer Chris Brown be referred to as “woman-beating R&B singer Chris Brown”? Forever? What about that old humane ideal of rehabilitation, of refusing to judge men by their past crimes or sins? This week, it was confirmed that Brown is once again courting Rihanna, the current queen of hip-hoppy [...]
If Beyoncé had to lip-sync over Star Spangled Banner, she could at least have used this version
It has been alleged that Beyoncé was miming the US national anthem during Obama's inauguration yesterday. Which is all fine, I suppose, but if you're going to mime, why not use a really good version? The late Whitney Houston shows us all how it's done: Or I suppose Carcass's Blood Spattered Banner, but it might [...]
Britain must proceed carefully in Mali: al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb would love a Western escalation
There is a certain irony that the Algerian crisis, having forced a postponement of the Prime Minister’s much-anticipated speech on Britain’s relationship to Europe, may now create new demands on Britain, Germany and others to show greater European solidarity with France, to grow more involved with a campaign whose complexity and regional consequences are becoming [...]
Jack Klugman was one of TV's gents — but the real Quincy goes on
A few years ago, when an actress named Brittany Murphy died unexpectedly – sad to say, her name barely registers today – I pointed out that the Los Angeles coroner who published the post mortem findings was, in effect, the Quincy of his time. Quincy was the sagacious LA medical examiner played by Jack Klugman [...]
In defence of Laurie Penny
We live in a weird world. Such things as "Facebook friends" not only exist, but they have entered common parlance. One of my Facebook friends happens to be the radical Left-wing journalist Laurie Penny, whom the Telegraph named as one of the top 100 most influential figures from the Left, 2012. Laurie Penny is not [...]
Ten years for hacking? Hugh Grant, eat your heart out…
Result for the FBI’s Operation Hackerazzi! A creep called Christopher Chaney has been given ten years in LA for hacking into the emails of 50 or so celebs and forwarding choice images to gossip sites. In an emotional video-taped court statement played in court, Scarlett Johansson wept about feeling "truly humiliated and embarrassed" by having [...]