The Thick of It, that supposed satire of Westminster life, has returned to BBC2 for one last season.
It is something I’ll be discussing in my forthcoming book for … Read the rest
Category archive for: Art, Fiction & Politics
With Boris Johnson riding high thanks to the Olympics and David Cameron suffering because … well, the reasons are too many to go into … I thought it might be … Read the rest
Meryl Streep won the 2012 Oscar for Best Actress for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. But she is not the first actor to the win an Oscar for … Read the rest
I am currently working on a book for Bloomsbury on the depiction of politics in fiction, from Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband to the present day. The research has been … Read the rest
There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle over Armando Iannucci’s acceptance of an OBE. Alastair Campbell has accused Iannucci of hypocrisy because, despite his situation comedy The Thick of It … Read the rest
To coincide with my paper on Queen Victoria’s dramatisation on the big and small screen at the Making of a Modern Monarchy conference I wrote this blog post for History … Read the rest
As The Iron Lady reminds us, one of the ironies of Margaret Thatcher’s period as Prime Minister is that, while the first woman to reach Number 10, even admirers on … Read the rest
I have read and watched some rum stuff during the course of researching my still-forthcoming book on British politics and fiction.
The film The Iron Lady focused attention on Margaret Thatcher and her leadership of an otherwise male-dominated Conservative Party. In this blog post for History Workshop Online, I assesses … Read the rest
During the course of researching for my forthcoming (that’s 2013) Bloomsbury Press book Representing Politics, which will look at how politics has been depicted in fiction over the last … Read the rest