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Category Archives: Sword of Honour
End-of-June Roundup
—The Times newspaper has a story by Magnus Linklater about the recent gift of a substantial book collection to the charity Christian Aid in Edinburgh. Here are some excerpts: …Among the books collected over a lifetime by Halla Beloff, senior … Continue reading
Summer Solstice Roundup
–Literary journalist and novelist D J Taylor has a review in the 21 June 2025 edition of The Spectator. This relates to a new book by Nicola Wilson entitled Recommended! The Influencers Who Changed How We Read where she discusses … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Interviews, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television Programs
Tagged New York Times, Radio Times, The Spectator, The Times
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Early June Roundup
–A recent issue of the Daily Telegraph reports the death of Roger Cooper. This includes a discussion of Cooper’s extended imprisonment in Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran: Roger Cooper, who has died aged 90, was a British journalist and businessman who was … Continue reading
Roundup: Books, Paintings and Photographs
–The latest edition of The Oldie contains an article that may be of interest. This is by A N Wilson and is entitled “Great War Stories”. Here is the opening paragraph: WWII inspired Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell and Olivia Manning … Continue reading
May Day Roundup
—The Times newspaper has published an article by Max Hastings on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII. In it Hastings explains: Almost five decades after publishing my first book about war, I am no longer … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Clive James, Dark Academia, Max Hastings, The Times newspaper, William Boyd
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End of Wintertime (UK) Roundup
–A review by Dylan Neri in The Spectator about a book entitled Carbon: The Book of Life by Paul Hawken opens with this: There is a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One in which a magazine’s advice columnist ‘the Guru … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Internet, Interviews, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Anglican Samizdat, Anthony Powell, Apollo, The Critic, The Spectator
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Roundup: End of a Literary Era
–This week’s issue of the New Statesman has as its Weekend Essay an article by John Mullan. This is entitled “The Death of the British Catholic Novel: Catholicism gave English literature something it needs to rediscover” and opens with this: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Oxford, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged David Lodge, New Statesman, Somerville College Oxford, St John's College, The Spectator, Washington Post
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Columbus Day Roundup
–The Australian Financial Review carries the story of a new novel that may be of interest. It is written by Pam Sykes: …Her latest novel, Wives Like Us, skewers the ultra-rich residents of the Cotswolds, a bucolic protected area of … Continue reading
Autumnal Equinox Roundup
–The political-economic online journal Compact has an article entitled “The End of the Churchill Myth.” This is by Nathan Pinkoski who describes how the principles on which Churchill based his war and postwar foreign policy (as adopted, amended and applied … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Observer, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television, Waugh Family, World War II
Tagged Compact, Deadline, Financial Times, The Oldie
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