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Peter J. Conradi

Another enemy within: Thatcher (and Wilson) vs the BBC

Peter J. Conradi 7 March 2015 9:00 am

In a ‘Dear Bill’ letter in Private Eye, an imaginary Denis Thatcher wrote off the BBC as a nest of…

The biography that makes Philip Larkin human again

Peter J. Conradi 23 August 2014 9:00 am

We needn’t apologise for Philip Larkin any longer, says Peter J. Conradi. His place is unmistakeably among the greats

Blonde, beautiful — and desperate to survive in Nazi France

Peter J. Conradi 16 November 2013 9:00 am

Around 200 Englishwomen lived through the German Occupation of Paris. Nicholas Shakespeare’s aunt Priscilla was one. Men in the street…

Meeting the Enemy, by Richard Van Emden; 1914, by Allan Mallinson - review

Peter J. Conradi 5 October 2013 9:00 am

The Great War was an obscene and futile conflict laying waste a generation and toppling emperors. Yet here are two…

Migration Hotspots, by Tim Harris - review

Peter J. Conradi 17 August 2013 9:00 am

Consider for a moment the plight of the willow warbler. Russian birds of this species fly between eastern Siberia and…

'Imagined Greetings: Poetic Engagements with R.S. Thomas', by David Lloyd - review

Peter J. Conradi 27 April 2013 9:00 am

There is a much reproduced image of the great Welsh poet R.S. Thomas towards the end of his life. A…

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