Will Self

06.11.09

I was walking to the local post office one morning this week when I came across a policeman looking grimly at a large pile of car tyres that had been...
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14.07.09

Richmond residents are some of the most satisfied in the country with where they live. Our reporter Will Self seeks the secret of their inner peace

09.07.09

The creation of human sperm in a laboratory raises the question of why society persistently views assisted conception as an entitlement

09.07.09

During the lowest tide of the year, Will Self ventured down to the Thames to discover the secrets of the fluvial beaches from Chelsea Bridge to...
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15.05.09

Black cab drivers shamelessly stealing each other's fares and minicabs ramming their rivals - the recession has brought mounting tension to London's...
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06.05.09

An American travel website is warning travellers off our fair city on the grounds that it's "dirty" and the cuisine isn't all it might be

29.04.09

Face it: you aren't going to die of swine flu. Getting all wound up about the looming pandemic is just a way of ignoring the plague of debt sweeping...
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22.04.09

Plans are afoot to make the default speed on A roads 50mph instead of 60, while more 20mph zones will be introduced in residential areas and in the...
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21.04.09

JG Ballard – Jim to those who knew him – is considered by many to be the most significant author of the past 50 years. Here, one admirer pays tribute...
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15.04.09

I never took to Tony Blair at all. I was never impressed by his populist touch, nor was I sure that the benefits of a Labour government that...
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09.04.09

Will Self reports on the third day of ­protests by British Tamils inflamed by the military actions of a Sri Lankan government intent on extirpating...
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08.04.09

I’ve always known when a TV series is starting to bite with me — I begin consciously organising my life around its scheduling

01.04.09

One thing that seems to have been lost in the media blizzard surrounding the Home Secretary's dodgy expenses claims is the nature of the...
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25.03.09

If Google's aim is to be master of all it surveys, then the launch of Google Street View in the UK brings it that much closer to surveying, well,...
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18.03.09

Sir Paul Stephenson has chosen a good issue with which to make his mark on London’s policing, saying that he wants his officers patrolling on foot and...
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11.03.09

The splendidly named Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas is at it again, using her New West End Company — basically a shopkeepers' association — to campaign for...
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04.03.09

I was once on a panel that gave a prestigious award to Julie Myerson for her first novel, Sleepwalking, an elegantly overwrought account of an abused...
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25.02.09

Now that Binyam Mohamed has returned to the UK from detention at Guantanamo Bay, there must be quite a few Whitehall mandarins — not to mention some...
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18.02.09

Ken Stott may be starring in A View from the Bridge at the Duke of York’s but it’s what he can hear in the auditorium that’s bothering him

13.02.09

According to a leaked minute, Boris Johnson uttered the most commonly employed fricative expletive no fewer than 10 times during a recent phone...
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