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‘Addiction Is No Respecter of Persons': Will Self on Philip Seymour Hoffman’s...
Jeremy Paxman: Do you understand [Philip Seymour Hoffman's] involvement with drugs? Will Self: Well addiction’s no respecter of persons. You know there’s hardly anywhere you can point a finger, high...
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Martin Amis: How Britain, Germany, and France Have Reconciled Their Roles in...
“Britain, I think rightly, derives a great deal of strength from its performance in the Second World War. Perhaps no other nation in Europe emerges from that war intact — either because of the...
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Why Poetry?
Questioner: I teach five-year-olds and we’ve been doing poetry — they love writing it. But making them sit down and recite poems would just be a waste of their time and a waste of my time. Peter...
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How Society Operates
Laurie Taylor: One of the things people say about your books is the difficulty in feeling any empathy or sympathy for the characters… why aren’t your characters lovable? Will Self: But people aren’t...
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Terrorism Works
Interviewer: In a sense the terrorists are winning, aren’t they? They’ve cowed the Western media into not reprinting the cartoons. Douglas Murray: Not only are they winning, they’ve won. They’ve won....
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Should We Call Terrorists ‘Islamic’?
Interviewer: Do you think this appalling act [ISIS’s beheading of 21 Copts] will focus minds? Douglas Murray: No I think it’ll focus minds for 24 hours until the next atrocity somewhere, maybe in...
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Peter Hitchens: The House I Grew up in
“I know perfectly well that it’s actually quite wrong to try to live in the past or to seek it. I think a lot of the reason why people do sometimes do it and some little moment of reminiscence will...
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Why Radicals Always Target the Family
“As our families fragment, so do the deepest structures of our consciousness. When a certain kind of family breaks down, so do the values which once linked parents and children, and gave continuity...
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