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Category Archives: US politics
The new Trump is the old Trump
“This speech contained whoppers.” A lot of the pundits may be raving about that State of the Union speech, but James Fallows is unimpressed.
Posted in US politics
Tagged Donald Trump, James Fallows, State of the Union
Notebook
We don’t know yet what the televising of the conventions will do to American politics, to elections, to the convention system itself. Some of us fear what one good demagogue with a fine voice and a rousing profile might do … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics, Technology, TV, US politics
Tagged Alistair Cooke, Cinerama, demagogues, Edmund Burke, Hitler, political conventions
The voice
Careers advice from on high in the FT’s interview with the queen of the Zeitgeist, Arianna Huffington:
Posted in US politics
Tagged Arianna Huffington
Notebook
Something in the intensity with which Windrip looked at his audience, looked at all of them, his glance slowly taking them in from the highest-perched seat to the nearest, convinced them that he was talking to each individual, directly and … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Notebook, US politics
Tagged Sinclair Lewis
A war zone called Chicago
When was the last time British news programmes ran anything substantial about the epidemic of violence in the Windy City? The stats are abysmal: In the first five months of 2016, someone was shot every two and a half hours … Continue reading
Posted in Race, US politics
Tagged Chicago, Crime
Notebook
Fifteen year-old Daniel Johnson had been in the backseat of that car. He had been riding with two other youths about his age and a mother and her two small children. A bullet had smacked into the car. Daniel had … Continue reading
Posted in Race, US politics
Tagged gangs, Ghettoside, gun crime, Jill Leovy, Los Angeles
Comedy masterclass
Quite an evening. My review of Bill Burr’s show in Bristol: Sometimes there is a fine line between being a world-class stand-up and one of those taxi drivers who won’t stop ranting into the rear-view mirror. Part of the joy … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Reviews, US politics
Tagged Bill Burr, Bristol, Colston Hall, Comedy, review, stand-up, The Times
Fiction into fact
A couple of decades ago, I interviewed the critic John Lahr ahead of his not very successful stage adaptation of “The Manchurian Candidate”. (It was a bit of a mess, to be honest, and only served to remind you how … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Literature, Theatre, US politics
Tagged Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, George Bush Sr, George H., John Frankenheimer, John Lahr, Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate
Notebook
“Sir, I’m thinking: it would only be fair, and it would certainly be to the country’s advantage to promote your philosophy more widely. Eidolon Books would be very happy to perform this service for you. Right here and now I think … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Notebook, US politics
Tagged Being There, Jerzy Kosinski, publishing
