D J Taylor
David John Taylor is a British critic, novelist and biographer.
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Why the poor wear flashier trainers
07 April 2013 12:00 AM
Ed Miliband is up against a sense of entitlement
31 March 2013 12:00 AM
Micahel Gove means well, but just doesn't get it
24 March 2013 12:00 AM
Shirker or striver? Most of us are neither
27 January 2013 12:00 AM
Our right to die young is under attack
02 December 2012 12:00 AM
Fifty shades of grey might not be enough
07 October 2012 12:00 AM
Maturity brings an appreciation of nuance, not often found on Amazon. Plus, why I prefer Labour candidates who choose private schools
Keep calm and carry on tolerating
23 September 2012 12:00 AM
Dave's demons are closing on him
16 September 2012 12:00 AM
Boris means trouble later, and a new ginger group is kicking up now. But it was a good week for cockneys – if a bad one for small towns
D J Taylor: There's just no getting away from real life
24 June 2012 12:00 AM
Kirsty Lane's consumer frenzy after embezzling £200,000 from her employers ended with a 20-month prison sentence
D J Taylor: Murdoch didn't meddle and Ms Price writes
16 June 2012 08:00 PM
Only someone who believes the above statements will be surprised by the evidence given to the Leveson inquiry. Plus, some poetry
- 1 Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
- 2 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
- 3 Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
- 4 Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
- 5 Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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