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Waugh and Celebrations, or not, as the Case May Be
–The Guardian in an editorial recently addressed various proposals to celebrate (or gloat over) Brexit. These range from suggestions of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson that Big Ben be temporarily brought back into service to ring in their victory and Leave … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Newspapers, Photographs, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Brexit, Bright Young People, Castle Howard, Daily Mail, Guardian, Vogue
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Waugh and The Brexlit Novel
The Australian literary journal Quadrant has posted an article entitled “Brexit and the Decline of the English Novel” in which a new genre of novel is described. This is the “Brexlit” novel and has already chalked up a number of … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Fiction, Newspapers
Tagged Brexit, David Martin Jones, Quadrant
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The Oldie Does Auberon
The Oldie has been running on its weblog a series of excerpts of Auberon Waugh’s Rage columns from its early issues. The latest posting from 1995 deals with aging and is one of the better ones to surface. He begins … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Collections, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged Brexit, Catholic Herald, Harry mount, Jeffrey Bernard, The Oldie
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Evelyn Waugh, Brexit and Prendergast’s Wig (More)
A new magazine based in London and called The Fence has published its first issue which is declared a “Brexit Special”. It describes itself as featuring: “Haunting insights, ridiculous conceits, pulsating fiction and just straight up lies: The Fence is … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Brexit, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Saoirse Mulvey, The Fence
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Roundup: Laura Waugh’s Lent
–In the Guardian, William Keegan compares the Brexit chaos to Waugh’s Decline and Fall: In order to switch off from Brexit in the evenings, your correspondent has taken to re-reading his favourite novels. Yet there is no escape! At the … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Scoop, Waugh Family
Tagged Alma Guillermoprieto, Brexit, Columbia Journalism Review, Daily Mail, Dave Wood, Guardian, Laura Waugh, The Oldie
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Brexit, Cameron and Ivor Claire
Dominic Green, who recently wrote an essay about Waugh’s military career (see previous post), has now written a report about the march of 700,000 people in London last weekend demanding a “People’s Vote” on Brexit. The story appears in the … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, World War II
Tagged Brexit, David Pryce-Jones, Dominic Green, Spectator, Weekly Standard
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Political Roundup
Waugh’s novel Scoop tops the list of those works cited in this week’s political press: –Tina Brown writes on the 10th anniversary of her news website The Daily Beast and recalls the selection of its name: A vexing problem in … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Festivals, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop
Tagged Australia, Brexit, Ethiopia, International Policy Digest, The Daily Beast, The Times, Tina Brown
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Brexit, Flags and Travesties
Patrick Kidd in today’s issue of The Times devotes his “Political Sketch” column to the Commonwealth Conference convened this week in London. He opens and closes with references to an Evelyn Waugh novel: Put out more flags. Evelyn Waugh took … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, London, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop
Tagged Brexit, Commonwealth, Cynthia Zarin, Justin Trudeau, Patrick Kidd, The New Yorker, The Times, Tom Stoppard
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Evelyn Waugh, Brexiteer?
In an article in the “pro-market” website Reaction, Alastair Benn considers why more artists do not support Britain’s exit from the EU. When he reviews where today’s writers come out on this subject, Evelyn Waugh’s name comes up: Although it might … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Newspapers, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Brexit, Jimmy Page, John Betjeman, New York Review of Books, Reaction.life, The Times
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Evelyn Waugh, Foreign Policy Expert
Foreign Minister Boris Johnson cites Evelyn Waugh in a recent speech in Sydney, Australia. In explaining the basis for Britain’s exit from the EU, he is reported as saying this: Joining ASEAN and such forums, he insisted, was far better than … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Binoy Kampark, Boris Johnson, Brexit, International Policy Digest
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