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Tag Archives: The Spectator
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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Waugh, Helena and the Gnostics
George Weigel, author and Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, has a written an essay aimed at generating interest in Waugh’s late novel Helena. Writing in the Catholic World Report, Weigel describes the novel … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Helena, Newspapers
Tagged A N Wilson, Catholic World Report, David Jones, George Weigel, Gnosticism, Laura Freeman, Observer, Rachel Cooke, Standpoint, The Spectator, Thomas Dilworth
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Waugh in the Papers
There are references to Waugh and his works in several major newspapers. In The Weekend Australian, an article in their opinion section urged Brits, Yanks and Aussies to stop blaming voters they view as irredeemably dim for results such as Brexit, Trump and, in … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Financial Times, Graham Greene, Roy Hattersley, The Irish Times, The Spectator, The Weekend Australian
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Hat Trick for Waugh in The Spectator
This week’s Spectator features three articles mentioning Evelyn Waugh. The first is in a memorial for Tara Palmer-Tomkinson who died this week at the age of 45. The magazine reprints an article she wrote which appeared in the 27 July … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged Cosmo Landesman, Independent (Ireland), Kirsty Blake Knox, Ludovic Kennedy, Nicholas Shakespeare, Tara Parker-Tomkinson, The Spectator
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Alexander Chancellor (1940-2017): Savior of The Spectator
Journalist and editor Alexander Chancellor has died at the age of 77. He is probably best known as the man who saved the Spectator. He became editor at a low point in 1975 and remained for 9 years during which the magazine … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Auberon Waugh, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Alexander Chancellor, Daily Telegraph, The Spectator
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Ronald Knox Revival
This week’s issue of The Spectator reviews a new collection of Ronald Knox’s works. This is entitled Ronald Knox: A Man for All Seasons and is edited by Francesca Bugliana Knox, who is related to Knox by marriage. See earlier post about … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Newspapers, Oxford, Ronald Knox, Scoop
Tagged Christopher Howse, Katharine Asquith, The Spectator
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“Lady Beevor”
Novelist Sebastian Faulks writing in his “Diary” column in this week’s Spectator comments on the knighthood recently awarded historian Antony Beevor. Sir Antony, as he will now be addressed, is best known in this parish for his book Crete: The … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Antony Beevor, Artemis Cooper, courtesy titles, Sebastian Faulks, The Spectator
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Evelyn Waugh, Cigar Lover (more)
Waugh is frequently quoted on the enjoyment of Havana cigars, but the source of this quote has eluded your correspondent: “The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a … Continue reading
