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Articles Written by: ALASTAIR HARPER
British troops march towards trenches near Ypres at the Western Front during the first world war. Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch/Corbis
The links between the first world war and literature are enshrined in our culture: the war poets are taught in schools, ...
The author and poet was best known for writing The Basketball Diaries, but he was also an accomplished musician who combined primitive punk with prose-like lyrics
This seems a shame. Watching him play live a few years ago I realised that, for me, it ...
Not much to get excited about ... Gordon Brown. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA
Lately, unfortunately for me, a research commitment has forced me to trawl through dozens of books about the recent history of British politics. On the whole, this has not ...
In politics, as in so many walks of life, it takes only a few people to misbehave to spoil it for everyone. So have some sympathy for the rumpled backbencher whose presence generates little attention in Westminster or at home, whose majority has ...
From ALASTAIR HARPER,
New Statesman,
16 Jul 2009
George Ewart Evans was frustrated with his life. Having escaped an extremely harsh upbringing in south Wales and earning a Classics degree he served with the RAF during the war and returned to his young family in the English countryside to write novels. ...
Anonymous work ... A gargoyle with head in hands on the bell tower of New College, Oxford. Photograph: Chris Andrews/Corbis
There's another venom-spitting and anonymous circular on the Oxford poetry professorship in circulation. Still, this one doesn't ...
It's been almost six months now since the Sunday Times published allegations that four Labour peers had been willing to accept payment in return for influencing bills passing through their chamber. Only a few months, but now we're in a different world. ...
From ALASTAIR HARPER,
Comment Is Free,
14 May 2009
Observations on the second chamber
On 30 April, having neatly folded his black tights, popped his white frills in the wash, spit-polished his gold chain and presumably burned his ill-fitting schoolboy shorts, Sir Michael Willcocks retired from his role ...
From ALASTAIR HARPER,
New Statesman,
7 May 2009
Is his mind being messed with? Photograph: Getty
There are certain turns of phrase in the modern reviewers' arsenal that are guaranteed to turn the stomach of any reader. It is these descriptions that are then shoved on a dust jacket or printed on a ...
Can you hear this? Close-up of London Symphony Orchestra violinist. Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
Alex Ross's The Rest is Noise begins its sonic history of the 20th century on 16 May, 1906 in Graz, a couple of hours south of Vienna. Describing a ...
