By Mark Simpson (Independent on Sunday, 28 January, 2007) Stuart Maconie is looking for the North. It’s not really so difficult to find, but we’re only a few pages into his new travelogue ‘Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North’ and he’s already hopelessly lost. Perhaps he’s spent too long in the south (the blurb …
Syndicate
Subscribe to marksimpson.com’s RSS feed. All original material © 2012 marksimpson.com, all rights reserved.
Recent Essays
- 'Gore Vidal Turns Off the Lights On the American Dream'
- 'Let Me Hear Your Body Talk'
- 'The Last Gay Picture Show'
- 'The New Bromanticism'
- 'An Age of Dorians'
- 'Oh Do Stop Nailing Blair to the Cross – He Enjoys It'
- 'Quentin Crisp & Hurtian Crisp'
- Bring Back the Danelaw
- Does Magic Mike Have Anything to Stick Himself With?
- Swishy Villainy & Psychodrama in Skyfall
Recent Comments
- Mark Simpson on Rupert Everett’s Flabby Bottom
- The Honourable Husband on Buzz Bissinger’s Metrosexy Addiction
- PaulQ on Rupert Everett’s Flabby Bottom
- PaulQ on Rupert Everett’s Flabby Bottom
- Ann Herendeen on Rupert Everett’s Flabby Bottom
- Mark Simpson on Rupert Everett’s Flabby Bottom
- Menbarrassing Advertising | marksimpson.com on I’d F*ck Me: Mirror Man-Love
Twitter
Facebook
Bring Back the Danelaw
The legend of the Danish King Cnut attempting to bid back the waves springs to mind when considering the response of London apparatchiks to Scotland’s tidal movement away from the Union in general and London in particular. Scotland, led by a Scots Nationalist government recently re-elected by a landslide, is gearing up for a vote …