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Paul Johnson has been writing the And Another Thing column for The Spectator since 1981. Johnson is the author of over thirty books including A History of the American People. Among many awards and honours, he is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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When dons were still happy to be egregious

13th January 2010 Paul Johnson

Before the advent of Political Correctness — the system of censorship which has settled over the English-speaking world like a dense cloud of phosgene gas — clever people were unashamed…

A seasonal lament

14th December 2009 Paul Johnson

This Christmas my thoughts go out to the people of Cockermouth, perhaps my favourite little town in all England, as it was Wordsworth’s. Especially I think of its small shopkeepers,…

And Another Thing

25th March 2009 Paul Johnson

Richard Strauss died 60 years ago this year. Not only is he one of my top ten favourite composers, he is also the one I would most like to be…

And Another Thing

18th March 2009 Paul Johnson

One of my favourite parts of London, in easy walking distance of my house in Newton Road, is what I call the Ardizzone country. This stretches from the edges of…

And Another Thing

11th March 2009 Paul Johnson

With one of those tremendous jolts to memory, I was taken back 60 years by the death of Conchita Cintron. She was the greatest of all women bullfighters and I…

And Another Thing

4th March 2009 Paul Johnson

A.J.P. Taylor liked to talk about the Great Depression of the Thirties. ‘It was all right for some, such as myself,’ he said, with satisfaction. ‘With a nice, safe job…

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25th February 2009 Paul Johnson

What are the salient evils of our time? They are two-fold. One is social engineering, the idea that human beings can be changed, improved and moved about as though they…

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18th February 2009 Paul Johnson

During the Arctic weather I re-read that finest of winter pastorals, ‘Snowbound’ by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-92). It gripped me, as it always does, by its combination of intense realism…

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11th February 2009 Paul Johnson

Being a professional writer is a hard life. Producing a book, especially a long one, is a severe test of courage and endurance. For even after a successful day of…

And Another Thing

4th February 2009 Paul Johnson

The more I see of the intellectual world and its frailties, the more I appreciate the truth of G.K. Chesterton’s saying: ‘When people cease to believe in God, they do…