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Tag Archives: The Daily Beast
Roundup: Spike Milligan, Tom Stoppard and More
–Duncan McLaren has had the idea to compare the WWII novels of two British comedians who wrote about it, based on their experiences: Evelyn Waugh and Spike Milligan. Here’s the introduction: If Evelyn Waugh wrote a series of the most … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Items for Sale, Letters, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged First Thimgs, Maggs Bros booksellers, New York Times, Spike Milligan, The Daily Beast
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Roundup: End it with a Waugh
–An opinion article in The Times by Matthew Parris considers the actions that will be taken on the part of Tory politicians seeking to replace Boris Johnson as their leader. Their different political placements call for different tactics. But the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Irish Times, New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Imaginative Conservative, The Spctator, The Times
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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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V S Naipaul (More)
More articles have come to light in which V S Naipaul’s attitude toward the writings of Evelyn Waugh is discussed: In the online newspaper The Daily Beast there is a story by Alice McNearney about the accidental destruction of Naipaul’s … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Literary Review, V S Naipaul
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Waugh and Brit Grift
The online newspaper The Daily Beast (which owes its name to a fictional newspaper in Scoop) recently ran a story by James Kirchick entitled “The Brit Grifters and the Designated American Suckers.” This suggests a history of British residents whose careers have hit a wall in their … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged grifters, James Kirchick, The Daily Beast
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The Daily Beast on The Daily Beast
In an article in the online newspaper The Daily Beast, Robert Bateman describes the origin of the paper’s name. He recounts how the 1935 Abyssinian War was influenced by the First Abyssinian War of 1895-96, which Italy lost disastrously. Benito Mussolini was 13 … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Abyssinia, Robert Bateman, The Daily Beast
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Floreat Bullingdon
The Daily Beast has published an article by Nick Mutch reviewing the history of Oxford’s Bullingdon Club. The private and secretive club has been much in the news lately because of the membership of three leading Conservative Party politicians: David … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Oxford
Tagged Bullingdon Club, Nick Mutch, The Daily Beast
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