Mentioned in Dispatches
Letters from London and Europe by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, tranlated by J. G. Nichols
Smoke on the Water
A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided by Amanda Foreman
The Lesson of Oz
"Australian politics is in turmoil of a type and intensity not seen for 70 years"
“A universal consciousness…”
My interview with the utterly incredible Gabriela Montero is in The Independent today: enjoy.
Super Mario
A brilliant writer with remarkable political gifts, Mario Vargas Llosa is a worthy winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
The Politics of Envy
That Howard Jacobson and V. S. Naipaul are non-members of the London literary establishment does them credit
China’s Great Firewall
The "Golden Shield Project" is blocking access to great swathes of the web, but Chinese netizens are fighting back
See No Evil
The "independent inquiry" into the radicalisation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab at UCL was a pathetic embarrassment