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The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.
A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the... →
I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without... →
I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it... →
As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in... →
Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism - Barack Obama's victory is a manifestation not of... →
Everybody has an idea of the kind of society they'd like to live in, and I would like to live in one where our senior politicians were spirited... →
I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say, in an office full of elderly... →
Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I... →
I always knew I would come to London. I loved Glasgow, but it seemed filled with echoes of my parents' lives, and sometimes you just want a city... →
The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than... →
We now live in the era of fake consensus, or phoney populism, a condition in which galleries and homes are seen to succeed best where they manage... →
When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as... →
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