AL Kennedy

Articles by AL Kennedy

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Who fetishist?

  • 19 January 2009

Like you, I always hoped that donkey porn only involved consenting donkeys and was there to provide relaxation for perhaps older donkeys, or ones with plain-looking ears

Queen's Elastoplast dress

  • 05 January 2009
  • 2 comments

A Credit Crunch is just some kind of half-arsed pudding. We’re going to get through it by enjoying generosity and sharing simple pleasures, just like the good old Queen said

Gastric distress

  • 08 December 2008
  • 1 comment

I fail to see how viewers could be expected to believe in a heroine who wouldn’t fall for a man with a large facial scar, several mental difficulties and a metal hand

Scotland's Simon Cowell?

  • 25 November 2008
  • 1 comment

I've been portrayed as some kind of godawful combination of Elizabeth Bathory, Simon Cowell and Bird Flu and have turned out to be a terrible anti-climax...

Selling off Scotland

  • 10 November 2008
  • 10 comments

'I'm amazed that an SNP government would be so intent on turning our country into some kind of heathery play park for the super rich and plausible'

Noxious vapours

  • 06 October 2008
  • 4 comments

Good wishes to those troubled bankers, the perils of sniffing damp repelling liquid and how to touch the arm of strangers and not quite get away with it

Locked up with writers

  • 17 September 2008
  • 2 comments

No duffers, no loons, they could cook, they were funny and twisted and many of them had nice mums - AL Kennedy on the highs and lows of residential courses

Speed dating

  • 02 September 2008
  • 1 comment

It occurred to me my personal equivalent of speed dating is, in fact, the hotel fire scare. In many ways a group of strangers in damp car park at 3am is an ideal way to meet new chums

Evil twin?

  • 05 August 2008
  • 1 comment

Poor Gordon - perhaps soon to be replaced by one or another Miliband. They’re twins. What happens if we get the evil twin? I’ve watched enough Hammer horror films to know this is surely a risk

Train on fire

  • 23 July 2008
  • 3 comments

The attitude on arriving late at Latitude and the perils of reading AL Kennedy. Scotland's foremost writer on life, October love and preparing for Edinburgh

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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