Terence Blacker
The journalist and critic Terence Blacker writes a twice-weekly topical column. He is the author of four novels and his children’s books have been published in 18 languages. Blacker’s most recent book was the highly praised biography You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson.
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Terence Blacker: Look out, the locals are revolting
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Positively the last word on the strange saga of Elizabeth Truss, the Dave's Darling would-be MP for south-west Norfolk, and her run-in with the Turnip Taliban: it was not about sex or even about using Google.
Terence Blacker: Do celebrities have all the answers?
Friday, 13 November 2009
A loss of faith in conventional medicine leads us to new 'gurus'
Terence Blacker: Reality TV police shows are criminal
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
For half an hour, the real world is presented in unquestioning black-and-white terms
Terence Blacker: A guide to the new eco-religion
Friday, 6 November 2009
Once the church of Green Faith exists there will be no room for agnostics
Terence Blacker: The heroic career of an unserious man
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Someone surely should commission a biopic based on the bizarre life of Gyles Brandreth, that Zelig in the world of contemporary celebrity. For more than 50 years, Brandreth has played the fool in one way or another, modifying and varying his act and career as the culture around him changed.
Terence Blacker: Can we talk about me now please?
Friday, 30 October 2009
Self-obsession is at the root of a change in the way we socialise
Terence Blacker: The best of British for the Olympics
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Every country which has hosted the Olympics has used it for image purposes. China presented itself as powerful and organised. Australia projected a sunny yet cheerfully competitive nature. The problem so far with the London Olympics has been to decide what exactly our national brand of Britain is.
Terence Blacker: We must fight them in the fields
Friday, 23 October 2009
We can no longer take our rural landscape for granted
Terence Blacker: The new breed of bossy vicars
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Perhaps it is time for Professor Richard Dawkins to scale down his famous campaign on behalf of godlessness. His great enemy, religious faith, may not be defeated but, on recent evidence, the Church of England at least is developing a talent for self-sabotage.
Terence Blacker: An artist who remains himself
Friday, 16 October 2009
Extraordinarily there are still those unable to see the wonder of Dylan
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