Articles By LIONEL SHRIVER
July/August 2010
'Life doesn't imitate art; art imitates life, rather pallidly in most instances'
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June 2010
'Beware: your government is about to become dangerous. It is about to become California'
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May 2010
'DIY is a way of life and a point of view. I have the highest regard for manual competence'
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April 2010
‘I have nothing against the hard-working citizens of Bangalore, but I doubt I am alone in my dismay that British companies have outsourced their helplines wholesale’
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March 2010
‘Why don’t I have a mobile, much less an iPhone or a BlackBerry? While I can afford the economic expense, I cannot afford the emotional expense when it doesn’t work’
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January/February 2010
‘I found myself in the perverse position of praying, in defiance of my politics, that healthcare legislation would get bogged down. Selfish? Hell, yes!’
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December 2009
‘Every time I talk to my brother, I wonder if it is for the last time...He is actually eating himself to death’
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November 2009
‘The idea that diligent citizens have been putting away money for their retirement with National Insurance contributions is a myth’
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October 2009
‘I'm hereby volunteering to save everyone a bundle and throw in the towel on my last two years’
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September 2009
‘Michael Jackson was a study in shame. He was ashamed of being black, ashamed of being gay’
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July/August 2009
‘My quasi-Freudian theory about Gordon Brown is that he reminds the electorate collectively of Daddy’
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June 2009
‘We have veritably criminalised making money. The proposition that rich people have rights, too, has flown out the window’
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May 2009
The elegant semi-colon is dying out; it is being replaced by the em-dash—the all-purpose tool of the lazy writer
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About LIONEL SHRIVER
Lionel Shriver is a journalist and author. She won the 2005 Orange Fiction Prize for her eighth published novel, We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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