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Friday, 27 March 2020
Since Rishi Sunak says he’ll spend whatever it takes, there is no point taking Deep Throat’s advice “to follow the …
Continue reading "Adam Boulton diary: Remembering absent friends"
By Adam Boulton
Friday, 20 March 2020
It has taken a global pandemic, but Covid-19 has managed to consign to the dustbin some of the questionable truisms …
Continue reading "Coronavirus shatters the truisms of our age"
By Adam Boulton
Friday, 13 March 2020
Quite properly the Chief Medical Officer declined to do the Maths in public for his worst-case scenario. He intends and …
Continue reading "Coronavirus could be the event that defines a decade"
By Adam Boulton
Thursday, 8 November 2018
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Wednesday, 23 May 2018
In his novels Philip Roth was capable of creating savagely comic scenes, often around sexual encounters, or non-encounters as practised …
Continue reading "Ignore the complaints. Roth was a literary giant"
By Adam Boulton
Friday, 11 May 2018
Kitty Fisher was an eighteenth-century prostitute who, as children of all ages may remember, found Lucy Locket’s pocket. She now …
Continue reading "Diary: Powell, Farage, and the power of the written word"
By Adam Boulton
Tuesday, 13 March 2018
American diplomats will only mourn the departure of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State for fear of his replacement being …
Continue reading "Fired Rex Tillerson won’t be missed"
By Adam Boulton
Saturday, 18 February 2017
These days we binge on TV box sets. When I was a teenager I binge-read the classics, using the excuse …
Continue reading "My favourite book: Tom Jones by Henry Fielding"
By Adam Boulton
