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?

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

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

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

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

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

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

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