Peter Whittle
Rivers of Babylon
The great provocateur – Joan Rivers
There Goes the Gaybourhood
‘I’m not sure there has ever been a time in London when you chose where you lived on the basis of sexual preference’
Blustering Boris
‘Do people know what Boris Johnson believes in? He slips and slides, whether on Islam or immigration’
Fundamentalists of the East End
‘Brick Lane may be hip, but it is part of a borough where a toxic brand of sectarian politics is promoted by threats and intimidation’
Accents Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be
Bob Hoskins would feel out of place in the self-conscious London of today’s films
Metropolitan Sheep
Its time for the metropolitan elites to broaden their horizons
Culinary Overload
The cult of eating out
Right on the Money
Films with conservative themes are more common than their makers might care to admit
Hollywood Does It Best
The Butler may be simplistic and sentimental but it is the kind of movie at which America still excels
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal