Category Archives: Scoop

Trump, Harry Potter, and Waugh

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Sonny Bunch writing in the Washington Post has noticed that opponents of Donald Trump seem to have become fixated on the literary world created by the Harry Potter novels. After Trump’s election: the Potternistas gnashed their teeth and rent their garments, … Continue reading →

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General Election, Water Voles, and Nothing

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A local news website in Kent has introduced Evelyn Waugh as an issue in the ongoing UK General Election. Kent Online has compiled a list of candidates for the seat in the Folkestone and Hythe constituency, with a thumbnail sketch provided … Continue reading →

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Scoop and the Montana Election

Posted on May 27, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The internet newsite Rare.us has issued a story about the physical persecution of a British reporter in the recent Montana special Congressional election. This is entitled: “The lesson of Greg Gianforte: Bashing journalists, even literally, isn’t much of a liability.” The Republican candidate … Continue reading →

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Waugh and the Friedman Unit

Posted on May 21, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

On a blog specializing in stories about the Iraq War, blogger Alexander Harrowell describes what is known to those write about such things as the “Friedman Unit”: Those of us who blogged through the Iraq War will of course remember the Friedman … Continue reading →

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Scoop Profiled in Arkansas Paper

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Philip Martin has written an opinion column on Scoop which appears in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s online edition. Excluded from his wife’s book group’s discussion of the novel, he took the occasion to reconsider it (and Waugh in Abyssinia) in his … Continue reading →

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Waugh and George Steer (More)

Posted on April 29, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Spanish newspaper El Mundo has published a feature length story on British correspondent George Steer to mark the 80th anniversary of the attack on Guernica in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Steer, reporting for The Times, is credited with … Continue reading →

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Cousin Jasper’s Advice

Posted on April 28, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Rosamund Urwin in the Evening Standard has written an article about degree results. She opens with this: In Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited, the protagonist Charles Ryder receives advice from his cousin Jasper before starting his Oxford degree. “You want a … Continue reading →

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Milk in First (More)

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Two papers today have independently quoted Evelyn Waugh on the issue of when to add milk to one’s tea. In the Liverpool Echo there is a feature article on the subject that opens with the claim that “Liverpool is the … Continue reading →

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Waugh on Desert Island Discs

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Reader David Lull has provided the results of a search for Evelyn Waugh on the BBC database for the entire run of its Desert Island Discs program. Waugh was never a castaway and, if ever asked, he would have surely declined. … Continue reading →

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Podcast Discusses Scoop

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A podcast panel made up of three Midwestern blokes and called “InfiniteGestation” has in its latest episode (#047) discussed Evelyn Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop. This is the first book by Waugh to be taken up by their program, which seems to … Continue reading →

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