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A fascist's guide to the Premiership

J G Ballard — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:00:00 GMT

The notion of being British has never been so devalued. Sport alone seems able to be the catalyst of significant social change. Could consumerism evolve into fascism?

The day of reckoning. Channel 5 devotes much of its output to Hitler and even our possible future king has sported a swastika armband. Why are we so gripped by the Nazi era? Is it because we want more madness in our lives? By J G Ballard

J G Ballard — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 12:00:00 GMT

A Woman in Berlin Anonymous Virago, 311pp, �16.99 ISBN 1844081117 Germany: Jekyll and Hyde Sebastian Haffner Libris, 210pp, �16.95

Now parliament is just another hypermarket

J G Ballard — Mon, 09 May 2005 12:00:00 GMT

Election: the campaign - J G Ballard found the election a charade. Real power has gone to the shopping malls, where we make the big decisions in our lives

The ultimate sacrifice. At a certain intensity, the will to suicide becomes a deranged affirmation of life. J G Ballard sees similarities between the Japanese soldiers he met as a boy and the terrorists of al-Qaeda

J G Ballard — Mon, 09 Sep 2002 12:00:00 GMT

Kamikaze: Japan's suicide gods Albert Axell and Hideaki Kase Longman, 274pp, �19.99 ISBN 058277232X

The unlimited dream company

J G Ballard — Mon, 08 Jul 2002 12:00:00 GMT

Hollywood makes adolescents of us all and provides the role models for the world's top leaders

We like spin, contrary to what most journalists tell us. We like PR and having our emotions manipulated

J G Ballard — Mon, 28 May 2001 12:00:00 GMT

A staircase of corpses. J G Ballard celebrates the enduring appeal of film noir

J G Ballard — Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:00:00 GMT

Build My Gallows High Geoffrey Homes Prion, 153pp, �6.99 ISBN 1853754129

Despite huge advances in science and technology, the 20th century will strike us as a barbarous time

J G Ballard — Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:00:00 GMT