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4 months

Utterly thrilled that the first copies of Power and Glory have arrived today, completing the Windsor trilogy. Enormous thanks to everyone at @wnbooks , especially @ejklake and @ElizabethAllen , and of course my peerless agent @literarywhore .

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Alexander Larman

@alexlarman

1 year

My next book features Elizabeth II's famous speech when, on her 21st birthday, she pledged her life to service. Last night, as I write for @spectator , the Duchess of Sussex plagiarised it and came out with an idiot's version -

Meghan's lecture on 'service' is hard to take

Meghan was in New York to accept a ‘Women of Vision’ award at the Ms. Foundation for Women's 50th anniversary event

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A truly great picture of a dishonest man looking deeply shifty.

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‘Those unlucky enough to have suffered through the six interminable hours of the Harry and Meghan series might now be regarding further updates from the less-than-dynamic duo with the same excitement that a dental patient looks forward to root canal.’

Is the world ready for a Harry and Meghan rom com?

Those of us unlucky enough to have suffered through the six interminable hours of the Netflix Harry and Meghan series might now be regarding further updates from the less-than-dynamic duo with the...

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3 years

How I wish Rory Stewart was the Tory leader.

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5 years

I’m genuinely horrified by the Guardian’s editorial about Cameron in tomorrow’s paper. I just hope that whichever sneering journalist wrote it never experiences a loss of a child and their own ‘privileged pain’. It should not have been published.

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2 years

@Sotherans Remind me to tell you about being denounced by the present day Lord Byron for writing a derogatory book about his ancestor

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3 years

My first ever cover byline, for @TheSpectator . Thrilled.

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3 years

@joshbythesea Is it a hostage swap?

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1 year

Utterly thrilled and honoured that @thetimes have published the first extract from The Windsors at War in their magazine today, ahead of publication next week. It looks terrific and I am so, so proud.

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2 years

So the moral of the story is, I suppose, that there will always be someone - even an entire literary society - prepared to defend someone who we might view as indefensible. Plus I was publicly denounced, which was a thrill. Byron would have loved it.

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2 years

This is peerless.

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About six years ago, I wrote a revisionist book, Byron’s Women, which focused less on the Wicked Lord than the women in his life, most of whom he systematically abused. It was designed to show exactly what Byron was - a rapist and sexual predator - and went badly…

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@alexlarman

2 years

@Sotherans Remind me to tell you about being denounced by the present day Lord Byron for writing a derogatory book about his ancestor

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2 years

I watched Harry and Meghan on Netflix. It’s incredibly boring. My thoughts for @spectator -

Harry and Meghan’s Netflix show is a tedious, narcissistic wallow

The opening scenes of the eagerly anticipated – or keenly dreaded – Netflix series Harry & Meghan set out the couple’s stall. ‘This is a first-hand account of Harry & Meghan’s story, and told with...

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‘We can only be reminded of Hamlet’s words on his father, suitably gender-flipped. She was a woman, take her for all in all. We shall not look upon her like again. And we, as a nation, will be the poorer for it’ I wrote about the Queen for @spectator -

Queen Elizabeth II, our remarkable monarch

Queen Elizabeth II, who has died at the age of 96, was the longest-serving British monarch. From the uncertain beginnings of her reign, acceding to the throne at the age of 25 after the unexpectedly...

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4 months

The man really is a glutton for punishment and humiliation, as I wrote earlier -

Prince Harry's court defeat is another embarrassment for the royals

Prince Harry's failed High Court challenge against the government over his security protection heaps more embarrassment on the royals

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#Breaking The Duke of Sussex will seek to appeal against a High Court ruling dismissing his challenge over a change to the level of his personal security when he visits the UK, a spokesperson said

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2 years

@JNRaeside Oh, please, please, please can this be the beginning of the end.

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6 years

My father-in-law Will Alsop died yesterday. Here’s a little thing I wrote about my memories of him -

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4 years

How TV commissioning works, from the Guardian today. 'When Sex Education was picked up, Nunn had no big credits to her name. She had written and directed a couple of short films'. (Later) 'Her mother is the Australian actor Sharon Lee-Hill; her father the director Trevor Nunn'

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5 years

I often think that @RoryStewartUK seems like someone from another time. But this was him at the age of (nearly) 12, writing to the Spectator.

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3 years

I've got a new job! Hurrah! Oh wait, I forgot I'm entirely unemployable by any conventional metric. Let me rephrase that...I have signed a deal for a new book. Hooray! More details to come very soon...

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4 years

@RoryStewartUK I think ‘the PM won support of One Nation conservatives’ is stretching it a bit. After all, he kicked most of you out of the party.

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3 years

@VictoriaPeckham @guardian 'Her passion is the intersection of technology, regulation and society'. She sounds fun.

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2 years

I think this is comfortably the worst interview I've ever read.

B Ready: Beyoncé Is Poised For Her Next Evolution

“B wanted to play with fashion like never before,” writes Edward Enninful, who styled the superstar for her July 2022 British Vogue cover, and joined her for a Sunday dinner at home with all the...

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2 years

Which may or may not be true, but I discovered that I was persona non grata with the Society when a talk I suggested to them - about the relationship between Byron and Rochester, both of whom I had written books about - was duly given, by someone else entirely.

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Genuinely quite surprised that ‘books by women’ are some sort of special category that a man acquires respect for boldly admitting to reading. Most of the books I read and review are by women.

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Before the lunch, but then after I did a talk, he took to his feet and denounced both me and my book as ‘anachronistic liberal wish fulfilment’, the implication being that Byron’s actions might have been regrettable but we have no right to judge them by contemporary standards.

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2 years

With certain sectors of opinion, none more so than with the fine men and women in charge of the Byron Society. I was invited to their Christmas lunch to do a talk about the book, where the current Lord Byron was one of the guests of honour. He was pleasant and friendly…

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Up to now, I’d refrained from saying anything publicly about @BaillieGifford and the book festival funding controversies. But the news that Cheltenham has had its sponsorship withdrawn was a step too far. I wrote in both sorrow and anger for @spectator

The activists' war on book festivals spells disaster for authors

The Hay and Edinburgh literary festivals have cut ties with their main sponsor, the asset management company Baillie Gifford

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@alexlarman

1 year

I could not be happier or more proud that The Windsors at War has been reviewed by a hero of mine, @SimonCallow , in today’s @ST_Culture section. I’m thrilled he enjoyed it, and I hope that you will, too.

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@alexlarman

3 years

I am so delighted that Martin Scorsese consistently, righteously, lays into the destructive, tedious behemoth that is the Marvel Film Industry.

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4 years

One of the greatest bands around, @divinecomedyhq , has just celebrated their 30th anniversary. I looked at why they've managed to remain in the industry so long, and so stylishly, for @TheCriticMag -

The Divine Comedy at 30 | Alexander Larman | The Critic Magazine

On Wednesday evening, the band The Divine Comedy will be playing a concert at the Barbican. Under normal circumstances, this would be an unexceptional development, but now, with live music a…

thecritic.co.uk

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1 year

My thoughts on the late, great literary maestro Martin Amis for @TheSpectator -

Martin Amis's death is the end of a great British comic tradition

Amis managed to bring a contemporary Swiftian wit to the state-of-the-nation satires that enraptured readers on both sides of the Atlantic

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4 years

Reading about Peter Buttigieg’s time at university. All relatively normal until this paragraph - ‘Perhaps the strangest story about his time at Oxford is how he boarded a cargo ship full of Ukranian sailors to get some peace and quiet so he could revise for exams.’

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5 years

@anitathetweeter It’s remarkably, chillingly callous.

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2 years

As promised, here's the big news. My new book, THE WINDSORS AT WAR, will be published by @wnbooks on 7 March 2023 and @StMartinsPress on 18 April 2023. Telling the previously untold story of the Royal Family's relationship with the Nazis in WWII, I hope that you love it.

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3 years

I turn 40 today. Gosh. Thanks in advance for all good wishes, commiserations, words of advice, encouragement, lavish presents, hitherto forgotten bills...it's all uphill from here!

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3 years

@catherinebray I remember when Secret Cinema was good, rather than an aggressive exercise in naked profiteering.

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2 years

I've been a fan of the @divinecomedyhq for the best part of 25 years. It was, therefore, both a professional and a personal honour to be able to interview the great Neil Hannon for @Telegraph , as he prepares to release a new greatest hits album -

Neil Hannon on the Troubles, his songs for Wonka, and why he ‘can’t stand’ The Frog Princess today

With a new album and fresh Hollywood horizons, the Divine Comedy frontman is enjoying a second wind. But he has more than a few regrets

www.telegraph.co.uk

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1 year

Lovely to be on the @CamillaTominey show on @GBNEWS this morning talking all things Windsors at War - historic and contemporary alike…

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6 months

Utterly miserable to hear of the death of Tom Wilkinson, one of my favourite actors. He made anything better by being in it. A magnificent Pecksniff on TV, a menacing (yet hilarious) Marquess of Queensberry and, of course, mighty in In The Bedroom and Michael Clayton.

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2 years

Very much enjoyed interviewing the great @Connellybooks for @Telegraph about the new Lincoln Lawyer series, Bosch, his influences and whether he'll ever write a non-series novel again -

Lincoln Lawyer author Michael Connelly on Matthew McConaughey, Bosch, and making crime pay

The best-selling novelist is used to dealing with shady characters – both in his books and in Hollywood

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3 years

Astonished at all the positive reviews for Pursuit of Love in the Guardian, Times and Radio Times. Probably others as well. Did they see the same programme the rest of us did?

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4 years

@scatatkins Starlight Daily Express

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4 years

Ten years today, Sebastian Horsley died of an overdose. I still miss the silly posturing sod. I've written about my memories of him for @TheCriticMag .

Sebastian Horsley: equal parts Byronic dandy, Dickensian grotesque and Wildean poseur | Alexander...

Today, it is ten years since the death, from a heroin overdose, of Sebastian Horsley: artist, writer, brothel creeper and dandy. He came to epitomise Soho in all of its bohemian and scabrous glory…

thecritic.co.uk

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5 years

@RebeccaCNReid If you’re going to write something as crass as this, at least spell Osborne’s name correctly.

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4 years

@DPJHodges Really? From where I was sitting he seemed flustered, angry and evasive.

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5 years

@aholgate Actually Dunkirk could be classed as a Remainer film - it’s that line of Kenneth Branagh’s at the end, when he makes it clear that he’s staying behind to supervise the French evacuation as well. European countries pulling together for a common purpose...

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5 years

It’s been edited already, which is something, but that it was ever thought acceptable to publish - and as the editorial, of all things - is sadly revealing.

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4 months

As I've written for @TheSpectator , I'm still trying to get over the sheer awfulness of the films being previewed at this year's Super Bowl, most if not all of which richly deserve to flop.

The Super Bowl trailers bode for a poor year of cinema

After a truly superb year for mainstream movies, there are the slimmest of slim pickings on offer, if these trailers are anything to go by

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1 year

Delighted, on the eve of publication of Windsors at War, that a very comprehensive selection of author copies has just appeared courtesy of @wnbooks .

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1 year

Delighted that Windsors at War is published in the US today by @StMartinsPress - available, as they say, from all good retailers!

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Boris Johnson - a man who wrote a biography of Churchill - has feigned ignorance of the quotation that David Davis used, which was said by Leo Amery to Neville Chamberlain on 7 May 1940, and was symbolically crucial in ejecting Chamberlain from office. Hmmm.

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@horton_official Atherton remains the rudest interviewee I’ve ever met. He turned up an hour and a half late, spent most of the interview signing contracts, and mainly talked about how rich he was. Never been to any of his restaurants again since.

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"It seems increasingly clear that, whatever the Duke and Duchess have to sell, the public aren’t buying it." I wrote for @spectator about the latest humiliations to be visited upon Harry and Meghan, as they lose their Spotify and Netflix deals -

Where did it all go wrong for Harry and Meghan?

After the much-watched but ridiculed Harry and Meghan series, there are few other projects in the works

www.spectator.co.uk

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2 years

If I was a theatre’s artistic director, I would be preparing to stage a verbatim recreation of the Rebekah Vardy libel trial later this year. Every single line is comic gold.

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4 years

RIP the great Jan Morris, writer of definitive books about Oxford, Venice and so many more places. Can’t wait to read the tales of a great, trailblazing life.

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I’ve just read three book reviews back to back which don’t deal with the quality of the book other than in a word or two, but instead concentrate on a précis of the narrative. Surely this is fairly useless, both for the writer and the potential purchaser?

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1 year

‘The blame for the city of Oxford being a pale shadow of its former glories lies with the university and its colleges’. I wrote for this month’s @TheCriticMag about the miseries of living in a city where half the shops are shut because of the landlords -

How gown destroyed town | Alexander Larman | The Critic Magazine

The decline and fall of the dreaming spires and their replacement by shuttered shops, sad cafés and mothballed pubs…

thecritic.co.uk

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'If the law of averages is to be believed, Prince Harry has involved himself in so many court cases that it was inevitable that at least one was not going to go his way.' I wrote about Harry's High Court defeat for @spectator -

Prince Harry's legal defeat will be particularly painful

The High Court has ruled that the Home Office’s decision that Harry can't pay the police to protect him when he is in the UK is legal

www.spectator.co.uk

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3 years

I am equally delighted by this.

The Critic

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And we’re delighted that with the MAY issue of The Critic, @alexlarman joins the masthead as a contributing editor.

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This is extraordinary - Tom Hollander’s regime de vivre -

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2 years

. @The_Fence_Mag nailing Johnson

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Arguably the best title I’ve seen for a book this year.

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1 year

As Prince Harry concludes his stint in the High Court, the Royal Family tweet about the Duke of Kent at a tank museum. I asked for @spectator if their ongoing refusal to acknowledge Harry's antics can be met with similarly armour-plated robustness -

Will the royal silence over Prince Harry's trial hold?

It’s fair to say that, after an unimpressive first day on the witness stand in his case against the Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), Prince Harry rallied somewhat yesterday. This may well have been...

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@matthaig1 This is what we are up against. The extraordinary, painful stupidity - ‘he has an allotment! He rides a bike!’ - and then the refuge in accusing her interlocutor of mansplaining. It’s going to be a long, long campaign.

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4 years

‘Flex. Mansion Offer. We are, it seems, at the end of days.’ To say that I’m not a big fan of the @nationaltrust ’s proposed changes is an understatement. I explain why for @TheCriticMag ...

Is this the end for the National Trust? | Alexander Larman | The Critic Magazine

On 14 October 1942, the architectural historian and diarist James Lees-Milne – arguably the figure most closely associated with the National Trust throughout the twentieth century – paid his first…

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4 years

@LynnBrittney2 'What does it profit a man if he gain the world and lose his soul?'

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Now that the lawyers have cast an eye over it, here's my take for the @spectator on the royal racist controversy, including the suspiciously convenient revelation that the Dutch edition names both of the nefarious figures involved

Harry, Meghan and the mystery of the 'royal racist'

Ever since 2021’s Oprah interview, there has been a fascination with the identity of the notorious figure known only as ‘the royal racist’.

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4 years

Thrilled to announce that The Crown In Crisis is being serialised in today’s Daily Telegraph, in @TelegraphMag . You can read it online here - - but it looks best in the actual magazine. Buy papers people! And a great @CamillaTominey mini-column too.

The inside story of the love affair that almost tore apart the Royal family

He fell out with his brother over her. His sister-in-law resented her diva demands. What really went on in the palace when Edward met Wallis

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I wrote about the King's surprisingly Christian-themed speech for @spectator

The King’s speech was more Christian than his mother had dared

King Charles’s Christmas speech touched on the environment, with a more explicitly Christian message and tone than the Queen’s were.

www.spectator.co.uk

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I wrote for @spectator about the aesthetic and cultural decline of Oxford, a city less composed of dreaming spires and more of unfortunate experiments in concrete.

The sad decline of Oxford

The difficulty in Oxford is that the city's architecture has been subsumed to the worst kind of instincts.

www.spectator.co.uk

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The Woman in Black, @susanhillwriter 's masterpiece of Gothic ghostliness, has one of the most enduring legacies of any supernatural novel ever written. I looked at why for @TheCriticMag

The legacy of The Woman in Black | Alexander Larman | The Critic Magazine

Although Halloween is now past, there is something enduring about the tradition of the ghost story. As the nights draw in and Christmas approaches, the idea of a chilling tale told by the fireside is…

thecritic.co.uk

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I honestly thought that this was Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner when I first saw it.

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@camillalong It’s all becoming very Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson. He, after all, made a big deal about how ‘I shall be available for public events, but my private life is my own, and I expect that to be respected’. It wasn’t.

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@HackBlackburn You must.

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@StephenMcGann He’s conspicuously worse at being Prime Minister - as a public entity - than he was at being Mayor of London.

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A last-minute pleasant cinematic surprise for 2023: Wonka is a marvel from start to finish, with wonderful songs, a charming Timothée Chalamet lead performance, a scene-stealing Hugh Grant and a fabulous supporting cast all wholly on point. I adored it.

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Barry Humphries was a hero to me. It was an honour to write about his extraordinary, generous, absurd legacy for @Telegraph -

Dame Edna versus the trans mob: 8 funny, illuminating Barry Humphries stories

From snubbing Princess Margaret to a clash with Spike Milligan, the fearless Aussie polymath lived a life rich in anecdotes. Here are a few

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Much as I detest Priti Patel - vicious, smug and incompetent - I note with alarm the racially tinged attacks on her, on the grounds that people who are otherwise too woke to abuse someone of Asian origin are given licence so to do if she’s a Tory cabinet minister.

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Say what you like about King Charles, but he has a knack for rising to the occasion with a set-piece speech. The two that he delivered to commemorate D-Day rank amongst his best, as I wrote for @spectator .

King Charles’s deeply moving D-Day speeches

Charles spoke, intelligently and affectingly, about how D-Day represented the finest hour that Churchill had promised his people.

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If Joe Orton had come up with the line ‘I am not mad. I am a member of Parliament’, I think he could have patted himself on the back and taken the rest of the day off.

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Too many great Jane Bown pictures to list, but this Betjeman one is one of my favourites. Perfectly captures him. http://t.co/mFoIG2zxop

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Also I’m in this week’s @spectator magazine writing about whether the Duke of Windsor staged the theft of his own jewellery in 1946 (spoiler alert: probably).

Did the Duchess of Windsor fake the theft of her own jewels?

On 16 October 1946, the Duke of Windsor, the former Edward VIII, and his wife Wallis were visiting England for a short period. They were staying with their friends the Dudleys at Ednam Lodge in...

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I promised everyone news. Well, have I got news for you. @wnbooks @andrewlownie

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Love this picture, love this photographer, and love this poet.

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Richard Avedon photographed WH Auden at St Mark’s Place in New York OTD in 1960.

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The sole time I met Iris Murdoch, and I said I wanted to be a writer, she smiled and said ‘be extraordinary, my boy. That’s all.’

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'To admit to an affection, let alone an idolatry, for Kingsley Amis's works is to stand above the parapet and declare oneself a thoroughly wrong ’un.' I wrote about one of the greatest British comic writers for this month's @TheCriticMag -

Amis at 100: a master satirist without honour | Alexander Larman | The Critic Magazine

This article is taken from the May 2022 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. ‘‘In 1986, I won the Booker Prize for…

thecritic.co.uk

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Byron was both a brilliant and truly repellent man. I wrote a book a few years ago which detailed both the brilliance and the evil that he was responsible for, and virtually nobody bought it. Perhaps I should have just ‘printed the legend’.

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📖 The poet was a prototype for the contemporary celebrity. His fans were called 'Byromaniacs' and they wrote him hundreds of letters.

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Having a groping Tory MP called ‘Pincher’ is something that a Restoration dramatist might have rejected as being too on the nose. As opposed to other parts of the body.

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‘This book is even more rollicking than its predecessor – this is an author having an enormous amount of fun with his subject.’ Thank you, @ahmpreston , for such a splendid review of Windsors at War in today’s @GuardianBooks -

The Windsors at War by Alexander Larman review – rollicking account of the king, the duke and the...

This riotous and engaging biography has it all: two brothers at each other’s throats, two wives who loathe each other, and the duke’s ill-advised visit to Germany

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Utterly over the moon about a new review of The Crown in Crisis in the @WSJ : 'Mr. Larman brings his cast of characters vividly to life in a fast-paced, lively staging of the drama. It’s as much fun to read as a good political thriller.'

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6 years

Martin McDonagh’s #LieutenantofInishmore , expertly revived with @AidanTurner by @MichaelGrandage , now comes across less as a satire on the IRA and more as a devastatingly hilarious black comedy that plays like Noel Coward on ketamine. It is far, far too funny.

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6 months

As Wonka cleans up - no pun intended, if you've seen the film - at the US box office, I wrote a paean of praise to it and its superb director Paul King, as well as its songwriter @divinecomedyhq , for @TheSpectator

In praise of Wonka

Paul King’s new movie, Wonka, supplies something that has been in very short supply in movie theaters for years: fun

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4 years

A writer gets bullied off Twitter for writing a piece people disagree with. Sign of the times? I look at the saga for @TheCriticMag -

Brought to Book: James Marriott | Alexander Larman | The Critic Magazine

This year’s Booker Prize longlist did not deviate in many regards from what veteran bibliophiles and literary journalists have come to expect. As anticipated, Hilary Mantel made her third appearance…

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2 years

Sad to hear that Hilary Mantel's died - a major writer, whether you prefer the big, thumping later books or the earlier, spritelier ones.

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1 year

This is absolutely, bat-shit level extraordinary.

This Morning

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1 year

A message to you, from Holly.

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9 years

Why do serial killers always take kidnap victims to abandoned factories or dungeons? Why not a good old Premier Inn? #Luther

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2 years

Delighted by the arrival of the superb-looking latest by the brilliant @marinamaral2 and the insanely prolific @dgjones , A Woman’s World.

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1 year

An absolutely massive thanks to everyone who's bought the book over the weekend, or said nice things about my appearance on TV earlier, or generally been supportive. It means the world to me.

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2 years

Writing Power and Glory, the third book in my Windsors trilogy, has been an emotionally overwhelming experience. Every chapter has made me cry. ‘I felt I had lost something very precious.’ It’s impossibly moving. Hope you love it when it’s out.

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