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When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea... →
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that... →
Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The... →
A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.
'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.
I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going... →
I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and... →
I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning... →
You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their... →
Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.
Interviewing is not a democratic art.
When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.
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