Just as she is wary of the crowd-pleasing emotions in The Book Of Human Emotions: An Encyclopaedia Of Feeling From Anger To Wanderlust, Tiffany Watt Smith likes to put in a good word for those that usually attract a bad press. People who worry have fewer accidents; envy may be the engine for fairness and equality. ...read
Craig Brown Event for The Mail on Sunday's recent articles
CRAIG BROWN: If Basil Fawlty wrote a travel book... it would be just like Bill Bryson’s gently foaming lament for a lost Britain overrun by litter
Bill Bryson's latest emerges as a eulogy for a lost Britain, even if its excessively cheesed-off air suggests it is also a eulogy for Bryson’s lost youth. Nothing is what it was, or as it should be. Service has gone to pot. Wherever he goes, he either sounds off against waiters and shop assistants or wishes he had. Were Basil Fawlty to write a travel book, it would read much like this. ...read
CRAIG BROWN: How cracks appeared in the Iron Lady: Her flashing-eyed paranoia. Her fear of losing power. And her terror of being driven around by Reagan in a golf cart
In the second volume of his biography of Mrs Thatcher (as he calls her throughout), Charles Moore makes it clear that, behind all her Iron Lady bravado, she lived on her nerve-ends, in a sort of perpetual tornado of panic. She herself had ousted Edward Heath, and so was only too well aware that a Prime Minister’s luck can soon turn. ...read
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