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The Angel FactoryHave you ever imagined that you might be living in a dream reality? That your parents, your sister, your best friend, even your dog isn't who you...Read More
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Globe and Mail, May 9, 2012
...How to have a better party A party full of successful, list-making people is always worth avoiding, writes Terence Blacker in The Independent. Those who are on the treadmill of ambition and advancement rarely make good company, and work hard to make you...
The Independent, May 7, 2012
...In response to this mood, achievers have been telling the press how they have become so successful and enviable. Organise, they say. Digitise. Upgrade. Emily Maitlis has revealed that she "moves incredibly quickly". Shami Chakrabarti "diarises thinking...
Richmond and Twickenham Times, May 6, 2012
...exceptionally high standards only to find all is not as it seems. Also at the event will be Terence Blacker, a stylish and humorous writer best-known for his biography You cannot live as I have lived and not end up like this: The thoroughly disgraceful...
Guardian.co.uk, March 12, 2012
...Bali Rai Author Tony Roche Writer Anna Perera Author Michael Holroyd Author John Dougherty Author, parent, former teacher Terence Blacker Author Steve Skidmore Author Steve Barlow Author Linda Newbery Author Ann Jungman Author Philip Ardagh...
The Independent, January 23, 2012
...At these moments, it is not just the financial security of the employed which seems enviable to freelances, but the suspicion that they are having an altogether jollier time at work than those of us working away down at the end of Lonely Street: the...
The Independent, January 12, 2012
...The writer and broadcaster Terence Blacker contributes a twice-weekly column on a wide range of social, cultural and environmental issues. He is the author of four novels, of prize-winning fiction for children, and has written...
The Independent, December 15, 2011
...Although he had known, and often fallen out with, generations of famous writers, George Whitman was not obviously the stuff of legend. Skinny, toothless and with a goatee beard, he presided over his ramshackle empire of books with a restless, irritated...
Anorak, March 20, 2012
...be the glory.” Yesterday, the Sun said “God Is In Control”. Do we find God in intensive care? Terence Blacker notes “The Muamba Effect”: At a moment of crisis, an old-fashioned kind of religion has taken centre-stage. For those of us...
Britain News.Net, March 19, 2012
...Home Terence Blacker: The writer and broadcaster Terence Blacker contributes a twice-weekly column on a wide range of social, cultural and environmental issues. He is the author of four novels, of prize-winning...
AllVoices, March 19, 2012
...News in pictures Opinion blogs It scares me to think that only a decade ago, we wouldn't be aware of the fact that Benedict Cumberb.....We had a good news story in The Independent on Sunday last weekend, as part of our investigation int... Suggested...
The Independent, March 19, 2012
...Football is an emotional game, and Muamba's story – he came to the UK, aged 11, as a refugee from Zaire – has added poignancy to what happened last weekend. The strength of public sympathy has not been the slightest bit surprising, but the manner of...
The Gulf Today, March 16, 2012
...There is, as usual, a belt-busting amount of fat-related news this week. Which? magazine accused the government of failing to defuse the UK’s famous ticking obesity time bomb. The title of Slimming Couple of the Year was awarded to Simon and Tracy...
The Independent, March 15, 2012
...Surely, we can go further than that? The TV programmes watched by those gently swelling viewers are likely to have one subject: obesity and its various sideshows, gaining weight, losing weight, the life and travails of the over-large. As a culture, we...
The Independent, March 12, 2012
...Ill, lame and horribly frostbitten, he had sacrificed himself – "committed suicide" would be an accurate, though rarely used, description – to avoid putting his comrades at risk by slowing them down. Famously, his last words were, according to...
