On the politics behind the nation’s beloved baking show.
A Point of View: Car hatred
Will’s blistering attack on cars and their drivers, who are “told they have the ability to go anywhere when the truth is they’re shackled to a grotesque and Sisyphean go-round: they have to make the money, to pay for the car, to sit in the traffic jam, to make the money to pay for the car” for A Point of View on Radio 4.
On Daniel Craig
This week’s Multicultural Man column considers the James Bond actor’s comments on his fondness of gay bars.
On slangish
Lincoln Book Festival
Will is going to be talking to Dr Guy Mankowski about his latest book, Will, and ‘whether it captures the diversity of his life or, as suggested in the Daily Telegraph, is “Just another Selfian character, subject to absolute authorial control, the fragmented derangement of his youth woven into an intricate and coherent whole by the mature author”‘ at the Lincoln Book Festival on 14 October at 6.30pm. Tickets cost £10 and can be bought here.
On Extinction Rebellion and royalty
Two recent New European columns: the first on Extinction Rebellion; the second on royalty.
On churchgoing
Will has written about being welcomed in church and religious identity for his latest New European Multicultural Man column.
Stephen Wright’s House of Dreams
Will’s latest New European column can be found here.
How big pharma helped create our mental health crisis
Will’s review essay on Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis by James Davies is available to read for free on the Prospect magazine website here during its two-week paywall holiday.
Ports Fest July 3
Tickets are available for Will’s talk and Q&A this Saturday online at 2-3.30pm at Ports Fest. The talk “will explore ways in which we remember the fiction we read during childhood and youth, the role of memory, and our views of facticity” and Will will also read from his latest book, Will: A Memoir.
