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Tag Archives: The Spectator
Auberon Waugh and Anthony Powell
This week’s edition of The Spectator carries a story by Nicholas Shakespeare about his involvement in the 1990 dispute between Auberon Waugh and Anthony Powell over Auberon’s negative review of Powell’s collected literary journalism (Miscellaneous Verdicts) in the Sunday Telegraph. … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Powell, Nicholas Skakespeare, The Spectator
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Correspondence in Spectator re Waugh’s Oxford “Degree”
Alexander Waugh’s letter in the 25 November 2017 issue of The Spectator regarding the conclusion of his grandfather’s Oxford career has engendered a chain of responses comparable to those in which his grandfather used to engage. Alexander’s letter stated: “Evelyn … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Dr Geoffrey Thomas, Peter Loring, The Spectator, Timothy O'Sullivan
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Waughs in Spectator Books of the Year
The Spectator is publishing its annual list of Books of the Year selected by various writers. Among the choices in this week’s column is this one by journalist Lewis Jones, who writes for both the Spectator and the Telegraph: I … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged Books of the Year, Lewis Jones, Shakespeare, The Spectator
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Waugh and Powell in the Spectator
The Spectator has posted a podcast in which Hilary Spurling, author of the recent biography of Anthony Powell, discusses the book with Sam Leith, the Spectator’s literary editor. Near the end of the interview Spurling is comparing the lives and … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Remote People
Tagged Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail, Expressen, Hilary Spurling, Mark Amory, The Spectator
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Waughs Feature in Spectator Strip Cartoon
Evelyn Waugh and his son Auberon feature in this week’s strip cartoon in the Spectator’s “Title Stories” column. The cartoon is by Gary Dexter and is entitled “Writers’ Letters: Evelyn Waugh on Auberon Waugh.” The first panel shows an accurate … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Letters, Newspapers, Portraits
Tagged Alexander Waugh, Gary Dexter, Martin Luther, Reza Aslan, Strip Cartoons, The Spectator
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Harry Potter, Brideshead Revisited and Jeremy Corbin
The London papers are full of comments this week marking the 20th anniversary of the publication of the first Harry Potter novel. In The Spectator, associate editor Toby Young looks at the political and cultural influences that contributed to J … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Harry Potter, J K Rowling, Labour Party, The Spectator, Toby Young
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Mugwump Redivivus
In the present UK electoral climate, The Spectator has republished a 1959 article by Evelyn Waugh in which he expressed his views of elected governments: ‘Mugwumps‘ are in the news today, after Boris Johnson used the term to describe Jeremy Corbyn. In the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Alex Renton, boarding schools, Boris Johnson, elections, Lara Prendergast, mugwumps, The Spectator
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More Praise for BBC’s Decline and Fall from the Spectator
The Spectator in a blog column by Douglas Murray has added to its earlier praise for the BBC’s adaptation of Waugh’s Decline and Fall. This follows Friday’s transmission of the final episode of the series and focuses on that episode. But … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Television
Tagged BBC, Douglas Murray, The Spectator
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BBC’s Decline and Fall Reviewed in The Tablet and The Spectator
Two of the weeklies are the first off the mark with reviews of Episode 1 of BBC One’s Decline and Fall adaptation the day before it airs. These are by James Delingpole in The Spectator and Lucy Lethbridge in The Tablet and both … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Eva Longoria, Jack Whitehall, James Delingpole, James Wood, Lucy Lethbridge, The Spectator, The Tablet
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