‘Shame on you, ladies, for showing so little pride in your own hard-won Western freedoms’

Some things I believe

Daisy Waugh eavesdrops on the chattering classes

There is much to admire about Banksy. But is he any good?

‘Without Gore Vidal we would never have known that Nancy Reagan was a full colonel in the KGB’

‘Seventies London was a great place to grow up. As the son of refugees, I say to the English: so long, and thanks for the language’

Thatcherism provoked great TV but the makers of Headcases are too liberal, too condescending and not nearly angry enough

Daisy Waugh eavesdrops on the chattering classes

Imagine you are a novelist. You want to create an instantly credible picture of middle-class life at some time in the past couple of decades — a suburb, a village, a pub. Easy: one chap passes another and asks, “Seen Matt today?”