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Tag Archives: The Spectator
Orwell News
George Orwell was born the same year as Evelyn Waugh and they became acquainted in the late 1940s shortly before Orwell’s death. They admired each other’s writing but had different political and religious views (although both agreed in their opposition … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged D.J.Taylor, George Orwell, Guardian, Peter Davison, The Spectator
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Roundup: Inez, Cecil and Paddington Bear
–In this week’s New Statesman, D J Taylor reviews the life and work of Inez Holden, an early friend of Evelyn Waugh in the days of the bright young people. The article opens with this: Inez Holden’s diary – a … Continue reading
Roundup: Eliot, Milton and Stonewalling
–The current issue of the Journal of the T S Eliot Society (UK): 2022 contains an essay entitled “Different Voices: Evelyn Waugh and The Waste Land.” This is by William Myers who is presumably the author of Evelyn Waugh and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged ANQ, Independent, John Milton, T S Eliot Society (UK), The Spectator
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Gerhardie, Waugh and Boyd
Novelist William Boyd has written an essay for The Spectator about the influence of William Gerhardie’s novels on several British novelists of the interwar period. It is entitled “Evelyn Waugh’s sincerest form of flattery.” Here’s an excerpt from the beginning: … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged The Spectator, William Boyd, William Gerhardie
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Roundup: Boris Johnson, Arcadia and a Feghoot
–The New Statesman mentions Waugh twice in separate articles recounting the last days of Boris Johnson’s premiership. The first is by Jason Cowley and is entitled “In 2019 Boris Johnson had everything he wanted. But the gods were waiting for … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Feghoots, New Statesman, The Spectator, TLS, Washington Post
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Roundup: Book List and Bullingdon
–Charles Moore writing in the Daily Telegraph has a story entitled “Not even the Queen’s Jubilee is safe from BBC preaching: There are good writers all across the Commonwealth, but Auntie insists on telling us that it knows best”. He … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged BBC, Bullingdon Club, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Queen's Jubilee Book List, The Critic, The Spectator
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Spring Equinox Roundup
–The religious-philosophical website First Things has posted an article by George Weigel about conspiracy theories from within the Vatican hierarchy. This opens with an allusion to a seldom-mentioned Waugh character who has suddenly become relevant in the present international environment: … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Lectures, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged First Things, Gresham College, New Yorker, Paula Byrne, Radio Spada, The Spectator
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Middlemarch Roundup
–The Financial Times recently considered the revival of the sleeveless sweater–a/k/a tank top or V-neck: “As far as I know, the history of the tank top starts from the 1930s, where men would wear a V-neck slipover that was often … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, When the Going Was Good
Tagged Daily Mail, Financial Times, Public Discourse, Taki Theodoracopulos, The Spectator
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