Patrick Kidd
Diary Editor and Senior Writer at The Times
Scribbler for whoever will pay me. Author of The Weak Are A Long Time In Politics: https://t.co/zg1eoouBh6. Also churchwarden at @asblackheath
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1 day ago |
observer.co.uk | Patrick Kidd
Novelist and memoirist ‘reshaped American literature’ with his candid depictions of gay life and counted Nabokov, his hero, among his fans Early in Edmund White’s career as a novelist he met Truman Capote at a party in New York, who gave him a warning. “You’ll probably write some good books,” the author said. “But remember: it’s a horrible life.”Perhaps, but as a gay man in Manhattan during the sexy 70s before the advent of Aids, White found ways to make life tolerable.
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2 days ago |
thetimes.com | Patrick Kidd
Charles Dickens was born in Portsea and raised in Chatham, but it was London that inspired him. From the Marshalsea debtors’ prison where his father was confined, to the boot-blacking factory by Charing Cross where the author worked as a 12-year-old, to the law offices and theatres that polished his education, Dickens found the capital to be an invigorating “magic lantern” for his writing.
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3 days ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Patrick Kidd
Lord Hermer says it's the cab-rank rule, Jenrick went on, hailing "Gary the Cabbie" to explain that this means you have to take the first customer in line. (Gary should have a word with those colleagues who won't go south of the river after 10pm.) But it doesn't apply for Hermer. He's a " top human rights lawyer" - and he emphasised the "top" so it stung - which means he can pick and choose his fares. "Britain deserves better," Jenrick concluded with a sad face and an eye on his click-counter.
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6 days ago |
observer.co.uk | Patrick Kidd
Change and decay in all around I see, as the old rugby league anthem goes, yet some traditions linger. They may have moved the Challenge Cup final from the August bank holiday to early June, but they’ll still be singing Abide With Me before Hull Kingston Rovers play Warrington Wolves next Saturday (BBC One, 3pm).
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6 days ago |
observer.co.uk | Patrick Kidd
It took him two years to make The Sorrow and the Pity, the seminal documentary about French Nazi collaborators, but his heart was still with feature films In early 1969, not long after the strikes and civil unrest that had rocked Paris, Charles de Gaulle felt his countrymen were not ready to hear about the moral ambiguity of life under Nazi occupation. “France doesn’t need unpleasant truths,” the president said when told about a TV documentary. “France needs hope.” The programme was axed.
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My gosh. This week’s @ChurchTimes notebook starts with a perfectly nice comparison between Anglicanism and snooker and then suddenly turns into something heartbreaking yet beautiful on adoption and addiction. Thank you @robertstan for quite a rollercoaster https://t.co/UTIXqAVeQa
