The Independent London Newspaper
22nd February 2012
John Gulliver
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Published: 16 February, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER HOW did Norman Cornish hew away at coal as a miner for more than 30 years, from boyhood to middle-age...
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Published: 16 February, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER A BIG MAC visit didn’t quite work out how a reader of this column thought it would. He had...
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Published: 16 February, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER I AM more than pleased to report that I didn’t get it quite right last week when I chastised the...
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Published: 9 February, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER WHAT better time for a literary spat than during the week of Charles Dickens’s 200th birthday!...
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Published: 9 February, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER ONE of the more remarkable men of the last century, Joseph Rotblat – leading nuclear physicist,...
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Published: 9 February, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER THE James Wigg Practice in Kentish Town is leading the doctors’ rebellion against Andrew Lansley...
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Published: 2 February, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER DAVID Lammy, the “smacking MP”, feels parents should be allowed to chastise their...
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Published: 2 February, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER ACTOR Viggo Mortensen was at the Freud Museum in Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, last night (Wednesday)...
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Published: 2 February, 2012 A MOTHER and her daughter may often clash. But less so it is said for a father and daughter. For some reason –...
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Published: 2 February, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER JANET Suzman, actor and writer, could have found herself in an embarrassing situation. She was due to...
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Published: 2 February, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER The powers-that-be behind the HS2 project The City boys and the big-time developers – cannot wait...
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Published: 26 January, 2012 I AM told the basement of the Phoenix Artist Club, where a colleague met Mario Vargas Llosa (pictured), is a lot like the...
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Published: 26 January, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER I SHOOK hands with one of the greatest writers of the last century, Franz Kafka, on Tuesday. Of course...
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Published: 26 January, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER SHOULD the playwright Joe Orton have been cruelly slung into Pentonville jail for stealing and defacing...
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Published: 19 January, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER THE Archbishop of Canterbury is a man of my taste, it seems. A poet, and a prolific writer of books,...
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Published: 19 January, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER THEY all seemed young, eager and listening hard as George Binette, head of the Town Hall union branch...
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Published: 19 January, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER HESITANTLY, she stood outside the chemists. Then she strode inside, past the jewellery...
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Published: 19 January, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER STUART Hall, one of our leading thinkers, may not be in the best of health – he is living with a...
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Published: 12 January, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER I WAS standing outside the high rise block, called Silverdale, with hundreds of tenants, shouting and...
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Published: 12 January, 2012 SOME of the mysteries of the universe will – hopefully – be visible to the public during a special week...
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Published: 12 January, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER I WAS in my Sherlock mood in a cab in Euston Road on Tuesday as it stopped at the red lights. Who, I...
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Published: 12 January, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER THE Leveson inquiry into media standards is in full swing. And last year the Attorney General, Dominic...
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Published: 5 January, 2011 by JOHN GULLIVER STARTLED, I looked again at the notice fixed to a garden railing. Was it really possible that £...
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Published: 5 January, 2012 by JOHN GULLIVER THE annual ritual of the Queen’s New Year Honours often mystifies people. Why certain people have...
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Published: 5 January, 2011 by JOHN GULLIVER WHERE there was one, now there are eight. Where there was one, now there are five. This is a thought...
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Published: 5 January, 2011 by JOHN GULLIVER I VISITED Peterborough over New Year and marvelled at its 12th-century cathedral which must be one of...
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Published: 15 December, 2011 by JOHN GULLIVER THE one-of-a-kind Conservative councillor Jonny Bucknell has been up to one of his quixotic adventures...
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Published: 15 December, 2011 by JOHN GULLIVER YOU would never take him for having been a high figure in the church. He is tall, much younger...
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Published: 15 December, 2011 by JOHN GULLIVER IT would have been daunting for any speaker. Imagine how much you are expected to know when you stand...
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Published: 15 December, 2011 by JOHN GULLIVER I NOTICE that a section of Parkway in Camden Town set aside for “Boris bikes” is turning...
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Published: 8 December, 2011 by JOHN GULLIVER IT was the legal party of the year when the human rights law firm, Leigh Day and Co, threw its...
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Published: 8 December, 2011 by JOHN GULLIVER THE unique Winch is launching a £4million appeal this week to transform it into an even more...
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Published: 8 December, 2011 by JOHN GULLIVER Jonathan Swift’s classic satire about little and big people, Gulliver’s Travels, has...
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Published: 8 December, 2011 by JOHN GULLIVER IT’S been a good week for heart-warming occasions but none more so than the gala party thrown on...
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Published: 8 December, 2011 by JOHN GULLIVER NEW Camden councillor Sally Gimson (pictured), a journalist, got a page in the New Statesman this week...
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Published: 1 December, 2011 by JOHN GULLIVER YOU can have a look around Primrose Hill Bookshop from the comfort of your own living room after it...
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Published: 1 December, 2011 by JOHN GULLIVER WHILE the government is tightening the laws against squatting, a peer of the realm, Lord Peter Mandel...
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Published: 1 December, 2011 by JOHN GULLIVER EMINENT political scientist and author Leo Panitch faced a dilemma on Friday evening. He was giving a...
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Published: 1 December, 2011 by JOHN GULLIVER I INDULGED again, I confess, at one of my favourite street fairs on Sunday – with a delicious...
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Published: 24 November, 2011 by JOHN GULLIVER PULPIT politics came forth at the recent funeral of New Labour pollster Philip Gould when the Reverend...
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