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It grates when we crow about great Britain

23.09.11
Is Britain broken or great? Yes, I'm confused too. In a very different tone to his dire warnings about the global economy, David Cameron has found time this week to launch a new tourism drive under the brand Great Britain... more

Mummy, her lovers, Martin Amis and me

17.06.11
Gully Wells knows that as she promotes her memoir, her romance with a certain novelist will always crop up. But for Katie Law her own story was just as intriguing... more

Naipaul is right in part about women novelists

02.06.11
You have to concede a sort of grudging respect for Sir VS Naipaul. His willingness to give offence is almost disarming; he makes Martin Amis look like an amateur... more

What makes me really proud to be British

20.04.11
A certain novelist has been complaining to a French newspaper that Britain is a nation in a condition of "moral decrepitude"... more

Better to strip tyrants of power than their loot

14.02.11
Nobody wants to be friends with an ex-dictator. Unconcerned, while he was in power, with the possibility that all his financial dealings may not have been on the up-and-up, the Serious Fraud Office is now said to be launching a hunt for Hosni Mubarak's ill-gotten millions... more

David Cameron will miss having a father's pride

09.09.10
It is this unconditional love and support that a son loses forever when his father dies... more

Today’s leading writers are schoolboy show-offs, says literature professor

29.07.10
Literary academic attacks the 'cult of personality' among English novelists, lambasting some as over-rated 'show-offs'... more

Women aren’t as nice as you think, Martin

13.07.10
You have to hand it to Martin Amis — he goes with the geist of the zeit... more

After expenses, MPs’ minds are turning to sex

22.06.10
The red-tops reportedly turned down the disc of MPs’ expenses on the grounds that it did not contain sex. But they were being short-sighted about the knock-on effects... more

No punches, no pistols — British literary feuds are such staid affairs

26.02.10
The Martin Amis/Anna Ford exchange about what may or may not have happened 22 years ago over the deathbed of her husband Mark Boxer is a storm in a tea cup... more

Hanif Kureishi: My era is over

25.02.10
Hanif Kureishi, best known for his novel The Buddha of Suburbia, concedes that he’ll never be fashionable in the same way again. But despite envying the lifestyle of his teenage sons, he finds ageing to be ‘liberating’.... more

Gordon Brown's fury must be fit for purpose

23.02.10
On Sunday evening I was caught up in a perfect rainstorm of traffic. I could feel my temples throbbing and stretching in a dangerously Gordon Brown/Incredible Hulk fashion.... more

You undermine the memory of your husband Martin Amis tells Anna Ford

23.02.10
Martin Amis has accused Anna Ford of 'undermining the memory' of her late husband by pursuing a public spat with the novelist... more

BBC death list shows its true royal colours

22.02.10
When fantasising about watching one's own funeral you never picture the lame reality of how it will actually be, so pity the royals for whom this has come true: Demoted to "Other Notables" by the BBC...... more

So where are Martin Amis’s female supporters?

12.02.10
Not for the first time, a Martin Amis novel has divided the critics. Some think his latest novel, The Pregnant Widow, is worthy of the Booker Prize, others think it lurches between farce and portentousness... more

New Labour is sinking under the weight of its past

08.02.10
New Labour has been worn away like a man carrying the burden of decades of struggle. The mantra "Change, or more of the same", will be the key to the next election... more

Losing the plot in Really Old, Like Forty Five

04.02.10
Tamsin Oglesby’s new play Really Old, Like Forty Five is set in a dystopian future, where Britain is desperately overcrowded with infirm pensioners.... more

Debt hurts but it still pushes us up the ladder

02.02.10
Of course Britain needs to cut back and avoid becoming a Greek tragedy. But let’s not forget that taking on and managing debt is the way up the ladder — and one way to a more equal society... more

Martin Amis always had a fear and loathing of ageing

26.01.10
Martin Amis has run into trouble for being unsympathetic to the elderly after saying "Get rid of them all", although, faced with protests, his comments are “satirical”, rather than “glib” ... more

Hats off to the White House gatecrashers

27.11.09
This week not even the sophisticated American security services could prevent a couple of polo-playing socialists from gatecrashing a White House dinner... more

Martin Amis: How the sexual revolution helped destroy my sister Sally

20.11.09
Martin Amis tells how the sexual revolution of the Sixties and Seventies played a part in destroying his sister by putting terrifying pressure on women... more

Literary snobs should leave Katie Price alone

30.10.09
First Lynda La Plante attacks novels written by celebrities. "Publishers, stop spending your millions on this tripe," she said at the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards earlier this month, singling out Katie Price for special opprobrium... more

Sporting Miscellanies

09.10.09
Political historians of tomorrow will have cause for gratitude to Channel 4’s When Boris Met Dave for revealing the key formative influence on the Tory leader... more

No better spot for a barbie than The Crabtree

13.08.09
Its spectacular location on the riverbank makes The Crabtree gastropub a fantastic venue for outdoor dining — weather permitting.... more

Martin Amis's lovers laid bare

02.06.09
Ex-girlfriend reveals all in literary kiss-and-tell ... with his blessing... more

Praise poets and pass the exploding sugar

03.04.09
"Look," the novelist standing next to the buffet said, pointing down the room at the new winner of the 2008 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. "He's on his third helping." He sniggered. "That's poets for you."... more

Time bandits have hijacked my fridge

30.01.09
There should be a word — do the Germans have one? I bet the Germans have one — to describe the emotion of just having missed delivery of a fridge... more

Some inside jobs in Writers' Rooms

04.12.08
Eamonn McCabe invites us into private worlds in Writers' Rooms where the secrets of creativity, memories of agonies and inspirations are stored. ... more

The extraordinary life of London's leading agent

22.10.08
As the literary world mourns the sudden death of Pat Kavanagh, a portrait is emerging of a steely operator and a woman who inspired awe and fear in equal measure... more

Granta One Hundred

22.02.08
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