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Kissing cousins
22 December 1991 • 996 words • Reportage & Criticism
Are you in the habit of kissing toads? Would you be willing to take part in a research project? Our topic is speciation, the relation of… more»
Kicking against the pips
30 November 1998 • 774 words • City of Words
Drifting down the aisles at our local Tesco, lulled to a trance by the saturated lighting, drunk in the arms of consumerism, I find myself… more»
Fancy footwork at the lifestyle
magazine writers’ workshop
May 1995 • 830 words • City of Words
The other day at the lifestyle magazine writing school, where I specialise in… more»
Disneyland for Dictators
7 December 1998 • 1,253 words • City of Words
We live in the twilight of the dictators. Or we hope we do. The military strongmen of South America are long gone. Many of the… more»
Call me Carlos
6 July 1996 • 1,206 words • City of Words
I was a child shaman, si, señor, a teenage Toltec sorcerer. Back in the 1970s, with others of my tribe, scatterlings of the hippie generation, I turned for… more»
Armageddon, east of Greenwich
June 1996 • 762 words • City of Words
The outfit that terms itself, with a certain grandiloquence, the Millennium Commission—a quangolette that launders money from the National Lottery—has been having a hard time… more»
The magic of bioelectricity
3 August 1996 • 847 words • City of Words
They say every man needs protection. And women and children too. If Cherie Blair thinks she needs a mystical shield to protect her against cell… more»
A first blast of the hooter against the monstrous regiment of cyclists
21 July 1997 • 1,147 words • City of Words
For too long—for far too long—a vociferous minority group has held sway over… more»
Principia typographica
9 July 1995 • 968 words • City of Words
It’s two years now since the prolific, doll-like, callipygous rock star Prince, in a fit of pique with his record company, deposed himself and became… more»
The apotheosis of Spam
October 1995 • 1,321 words • City of Words
The Daily Camera is a newspaper published in Boulder, Colorado; Jack Collom is a local poet; John Bayley is a British literary critic; Roger Scruton… more»
