John Maier
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Last Seen Profiles
On The World Tonight yesterday evening defending
@Docstockk
's right to speak at the Oxford Union (about 26 mins in) ...
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I think Woody Allen is irreplaceable, and some, no doubt, will be glad to hear it.
My review for
@spectator
Woody Allen turns the tables on Mia Farrow, accusing her of abusing her adopted children — whom she collected ‘like new toys’
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Wrote about being a loser
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"By the time the sans-serif credits began to crawl across the ending of the twelfth episode — reminding me of the names of the men and women responsible for doing this to me — I felt as if I would never be alright again."
Me on Rooney for
@unherd
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‘… In the future we shall all be Cabinet Ministers for 15 minutes.’
Here I am, reviewing
@JAHeale
@MrHarryCole
and
@SebastianEPayne
’s new books for UnHerd.
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I wrote about the instability of (putatively) progressive attitudes to pornography for
@unherd
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People used to mock magazines like Penthouse for their incongruous mixture of softcore pornography padded out with longform literary journalism; though, if my Twitter feed is anything to go by, they were on to something
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Has London ever been a more hostile environment for late-evening drinkers than it is now?
Me in
@unherd
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Thrilled this week to have been awarded
@BBCr4today
Student Critic 2019 by heroic
@Marthakearney
. Martha’s voice used to wake me up daily as a go-getting undergraduate, back when she presented the World At One.
Student Critic of the Year
John Maier, London School of Economics 🏅
Runner up: Nicholas Harris, University of Cambridge
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‘Artists have more fun. They throw the best parties, they drink, they smoke, they never talk about essential vitamins or mindfulness’
I review the heroic
@lynnbaba
’s new memoir for
@thetimes
@TheTimesBooks
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An extremely important intervention in today’s
@TheTimesBooks
urging the return of
@Lit_Review
’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award
Bonk, bonk! Why it’s time to bring back the Bad Sex award
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Boris’s memoirs, imagined by me for the
@NewStatesman
…
“Boring bits crossed off, I charge down the hall so that I can exercise my prerogative as primus inter pares and end up bagsying by far the best room.”
Boris Johnson reveals the secrets of his time in office, as imagined by
@johnmaier_
.
Free to read 🔓
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Some fond memories of undergraduate times here for
@unherd
...
A piece of furious erudition from
@johnmaier_
on the rubbishness of modern undergraduate life, today on
@unherd
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Lucky me! I interviewed one of the country’s foremost smokers, Maggi Hambling.
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"Even Michel Houellebecq has admitted, in a startling concession to graciousness, that Carrère might be the second of France’s two greatest living writers."
Me in this weekend's
@TheTimesBooks
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Me in
@Lit_Review
's 500th (500!) issue, reviewing Warren Ellis and
@AdamAndrusier
's fun recent memoirs ...
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"'Quizzing' Mondays are back on BBC2: a fact you might have thought would be of interest only to undergraduates on the second leg of a two-day hangover and prisoners serving custodial sentences."
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"The New Life opens, as frankly more debut novels could afford to, with a sustained depiction of opportunistic man-on-man frottage between two strangers on a packed Victorian Underground carriage."
My review in this week's
@TheTimesBooks
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“In one spectacular confession of poor judgement, Clark appears to admit to an opportunistic hook-up on an outbound train from Waterloo”
For
@unherd
, I’ve written about Alan Clark’s wildly unguarded political Diaries
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The Times view on the word ‘fuck’
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Here I am in this morning’s
@TheTimesBooks
rereading the wonderful Swimming-pool Library
The Swimming-Pool Library is one of my favourite novels. This witty, joyful piece by
@johnmaier_
reminds me why. . .
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"At times, the scandals operated according to a kind of nominative determinism for ease of recall: Pincher was the bottom grabber, Parish the profane one, and Bone — upsettingly — the flasher."
Me on our political classes hunger for risk for
@unherd
!
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Will the Brandts remain “an uncomfortable assemblage of souls, teetering on the edge of disaster”? Well, I won’t spoil the book; Jessie Burton, after all, has beaten me to it.
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Didn't much like this..
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The Times view on Michael Gove’s housing plans: Home Improvements
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Here I am in this morning's
@TheTimesBooks
on Douglas Stuart's wonderful second novel, Young Mungo.
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"Their modus operandi is to establish the vague thought that modern romantic life is somehow subtly dysfunctional, misdiagnose the problem, and propose a wilfully ill-motivated solution"
Me in
@unherd
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My review in today’s
@thetimes
— A Small Revolution in Germany— ‘the making of the Groucho Marxists’
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Here I am in this month's
@Lit_Review
on Get Rich or Lie Trying, a book about the 'new influencer economy'.
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I reviewed Nikhil Krishnan's very enjoyable new book about Oxford philosophy in this week's
@spectator
...
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"Of course, this being a McEwan novel, his underlying conceit must be parsed into scientific idiom, preferably that of speculative physics..."
Me on Ian McEwan's latest novel in today's
@TheTimesBooks
:
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My review of
@jonathancoe
's rather charming new novel about Billy Wilder - free to read online and in this month's
@Lit_Review
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"It is not, I hope, an unacceptable kind of literary fatphobia to insist that a 450-page novel might have to justify its weight to the reader."
I review William Boyd's The Romantic in today's
@TheTimesBooks
..
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My review of
@JohnD_WMFB
’s new book! in this week’s
@spectator
John Darlington reports on the vogue for fake, showpiece architecture in China, whether Tyrolean or Tudorbethan with red telephone boxes
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"It is difficult to avoid concluding that Tarantino’s aesthetic development was arrested at some point in early adolescence"
My review of Quentin Tarantino's memoir in this week's
@spectator
!
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Henry Kissinger is almost 100 years old, and by the time this video ends you will be too
"He will be remembered in history as a man who started a historic transformation for the benefit of mankind"
Former US secretary of state and advisor to several US presidents Henry Kissinger says the people of Europe owe Mikhail Gorbachev a "great deal of gratitude"
#Newsnight
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"...Over six weeks, 400,000 people saw Bacon’s retrospective. Being Soviets, they were luckily used to standing in line for bacon."
Me in this week's
@spectator
on James Birch's fun new Francis Bacon memoir!
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Me on Göring
Jonathan Petropoulos’s biography of Bruno Lohse, Göring’s ‘personal art agent in Paris’, reveals many disquieting things about dealers and curators post-1945
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The Times view on boxing gender row: Punching Down
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Gosh! Me on
@BBCRadio4
on
@sallyrooney
on relationships, on again on R4 now—on, in other words, like fat Pat’s thong
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In this week's
@spectator
- my review of
@LockPaxman
Paxman is still a hopeless grouch and cannot easily sustain common standards of politeness even over the course of a half-hour interview: The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman reviewed
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"It is no small irony that Knight's approach shares in some degree a characteristic epistemic vice of clairvoyants, who pretend to discover meaning in everything."
Me on 'The Premonitions Bureau' in this week's
@spectator
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'The first sign of trouble in Humanly Possible comes in its opening pages, when Sarah Bakewell tries to explain what the book is about.'
@TheTimesBooks
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Here, in the 300th issue of
@prospect_uk
, read my interview with
@amiasrinivasan
about her wonderful new book, The Right to Sex
"We need the onslaught of images to just stop for a moment.”
@amiasrinivasan
on the warping power of porn
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"Make Me Prime Minister is a terrifying inversion of its Platonic relation — it shows us a vision of society ruled, not by philosopher kings, but by an untrained council of reality TV contestants.."
I watched some television for
@unherd
...
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Dominic Grieve and Anne Milton have thrown themselves against the party machinery that was formerly their own
@johnmaier_
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‘The creeping manner in which the GDI’s self-ascribed remit has shifted illustrates a sinister irony of the anti-disinformation industry’
The Times view on press ratings agencies, as uncovered by
@freddiesayers
and the team at
@unherd
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Me on
@SWalkerBEYOND
’s ‘Beyond’ in this week’s
@spectator
The Soviets deserved to win. Their American rivals were lazy, complacent, and overcautious: Nasa in the early 1960s was chronically underfunded and rather over-stuffed with prevaricating ex-Nazi war criminals
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me on drunkenness, one of my longstanding areas of research
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It’s thirty years ago that Robert Maxwell — never known for keeping things decent and above board — fell fatally and nakedly from his yacht, The Lady Ghislaine.
Me on ‘Power: The Maxwells’ in this week’s
@spectator
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My review of
@OldRoberts953
's very timely new book in this weekend's
@thetimes
Gay Shame by Gareth Roberts book review — is the trans movement homophobic?
A boisterous polemic argues that gender ideology is a danger to gay people ⬇️
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The Times view on Scotland’s hate crime law: Criminalising Speech
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Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger review — tough love from the Terminator
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@_ToddGillespie
David Davis is actually quite well-preserved, really. You know he’s nearly 70.... 70!! I find that inspiring.
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@JoWolffBSG
I think Jerry Cohen, also in the letter pages of the lrb, once tried to diagnose this fairly unshakable problem Roger Scruton seemed to have with being misquoted
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