15 days ago by admin

Claims over global warming are not accepted by all A POINT OF VIEW In a light-hearted essay, Clive James takes a look at Montaigne, golf-ball crisps and our attitude towards climate change sceptics. What do I know? Montaigne asked himself, and in answering that question during the course of several ...

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19 days ago by Printer

Product Description “I can’t remember when I’ve learned as much from something I’ve read—or laughed as much while doing it.”—Jacob Weisberg, Slate Finally in paperback after six hardcover printings, this international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece—the perfect introduction to the very ...

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19 days ago by Madame Arcati

Dear Mme Arcati, I have been feeling guilty about being so beastly to Clive James. I decided therefore to read his new memoir The Blaze of Obscurity in the hope of revising my opinion that he is a pompous pantaloon. Here are a few choice quotations: "I would have liked to have been in England when L ...

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22 days ago by Madame Arcati

I have Duncan Fallowell to thank for giving me the biggest laugh of this year. He introduced me to the world of Roger Lewis and his fantastic autobiography Seasonal Suicide Notes: My Life As It Is Lived. It reveals a man who deplores Clive James, Simon Cowell, Harold Pinter, et al. Of Andrew Roberts ...

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26 days ago by Mystic Medusa

Return Of The Lost City – by Clive James How far was Plato free of that “inflamed Community” he said we should avoid? Sofas, incense and hookers: these he named Among the habits not to be enjoyed, And if you did, you ought to be ashamed. But can’t we tell, by how he sounds annoyed, That his Republic ...

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29 days ago by Rob Spence

Clive James was 70 this week. When he was a mere stripling in his thirties, I discovered the work he had done with Pete Atkin on a series of albums just coming to a premature end in the face of indifference from the great British public and the big record companies. I've been a fan ever since, so wh ...

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33 days ago by Madame Arcati

Has the Daily Mail run the extract from the funniest book of the year yet - Seasonal Suicide Notes: My Life as It Is Lived by Roger Lewis? I can't bothered to look, and I'm awfully busy, so please be a duck and check it out. Last I heard, the paper bought the serial rights then got the wally-wobbles ...

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37 days ago by Kevin Cryan

This self-explanatory email has just arrived from from those very nice people at Amazon. _____________________________________________ Greetings from Amazon.co.uk, As someone who has purchased or rated books by Clive James, you might like to know that The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years will be rel ...

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40 days ago by Richard Brennan

Excellent article by the ever-fantastic Nick Cohen on the British libel laws in Standpoint Magazine. Writing about the courts presents many difficulties. The largest among them is not the risk of being sued yourself but the widespread notion in Britain that if you tell the truth, you have nothing to ...

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43 days ago by James Delingpole

I wish I’d been at Australia House on Tuesday for the launch of 1464 page anthology The Literature Of Australia. No, not normally I wouldn’t, but I gather from those who were there that Clive James rather set the cat among the pigeons by having a dig at the book’s political correctness. Presumably, ...

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