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Alec Charles

Alec Charles

Journalist, author, and academic.

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Don’t do what Peter Jackson did to The Hobbit. Don’t give them War and Peace when they’ve asked for an anecdote. Don’t be the last guest at the party when the hosts want to go to bed.
Opinion

News from Nowhere: The Flip Side

New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern last month admitted she had given all she had to give, and chose to step back from public life, having, as she put it, “no more in the tank”. In doing so, she set an example and a precedent which others might be very wise to follow.

  • 06 Feb 13:48
We must never forget, whoever and wherever we are, that along with our rights come responsibilities, responsibilities for all, as everything we say and do feeds into the cycles of virtue or vice.
Opinion

News from Nowhere: The Infernal Triangle

Imagine a right-angled isosceles triangle laid flat upon its hypotenuse, with two of its angles sharply acute, and the third very nearly obtuse. We must remind ourselves that, in the end, it’s not so impossibly great a leap from the likes of Clarkson to Carrick, when one travels via Tate.

  • 30 Jan 14:22
News from Nowhere: The Invisible Man
Opinion

News from Nowhere: The Invisible Man

The era of photoshop makes it rather easier to airbrush our unwanted leaders from history.

  • 23 Jan 15:33
News from Nowhere: Cry God for Harry!
Opinion

News from Nowhere: Cry God for Harry!

His memoir is called Spare, ostensibly in acknowledgment of his role in the line of succession: his older brother being the heir, he himself being merely the spare.

  • 16 Jan 18:14
Foresight is notoriously tricky (no one could have anticipated the events of 2022) but there are perhaps a few things we can already expect. So, what  might 2023 hold in store for society and politics in the UK?
Opinion

News from Nowhere: The Year Ahead

The UK is at a low point in its political and economic history. It’s now up to us to demand something different, perhaps even to demand the impossible, in an unstinting effort to try to turn things around.

  • 09 Jan 15:10
2022 was replete with absurdities, it was certainly a funny kind of a year.
Opinion

News from Nowhere: An Impossible Year

2022 was a year of contradictions, a year of paradox. A year that made history for all the wrong reasons. A year we’ll never forget, although many may well wish to. A year from which almost everyone in Britain should feel relieved to move on.

  • 02 Jan 12:58
You say you don’t believe in Christmas miracles? Well, no, of course, not. Who would? It’s only a story after all.
Opinion

News from Nowhere: Christmas Carols

Whether you believe in Christmas or not, you might not help watching into some of the holidays' traditional movies with an eye for today's politicians. Some of them might even serve better main characters!

  • 26 Dec 2022 14:56
The British public may not have been reassured when the chief strategy officer for the NHS in England told the BBC that "you can’t call it a crisis if there isn’t a plan, and we’ve got a clear plan."
Opinion

News from Nowhere: State of Decay

This column usually attempts to find the lighter side of the ongoing series of calamities that have recently come to characterise British political, economic, and social life. But there’s really nothing funny in any of this. I’m sorry, but I’m afraid there’s nothing much to laugh about here.

  • 19 Dec 2022 11:59
News from Nowhere: A World of Difference
Opinion

News from Nowhere: A World of Difference

It's sometimes difficult to feel a great deal of sympathy with the complaints of some of the world’s most pampered and privileged people, which is unfortunate, as it hardly helps to promote the seriousness and urgency of the causes they often support.

  • 12 Dec 2022 15:33
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