J G Ballard
Articles by J G Ballard
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A fascist's guide to the Premiership
- 04 September 2006
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?
Books
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
- 04 July 2005
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A Woman in Berlin Anonymous Virago, 311pp, £16.99 ISBN 1844081117 Germany: Jekyll and Hyde Sebastian Haffner Libris, 210pp, £16.95
Politics
Now parliament is just another hypermarket
- 09 May 2005
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
Books
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
- 09 September 2002
Kamikaze: Japan's suicide gods Albert Axell and Hideaki Kase Longman, 274pp, £19.99 ISBN 058277232X
World Affairs
The unlimited dream company
- 08 July 2002
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
- 28 May 2001
Books
A staircase of corpses. J G Ballard celebrates the enduring appeal of film noir
- 26 March 2001
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
- 20 December 1999
