Sebastian Shakespeare
Articles by Sebastian Shakespeare
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Politics
Shakespeare’s Globe
- 27 November 2008
When I last saw Roy Jenkins he was enjoying a convivial lunch.
“He’s a two-bottle-a-lunch man,” whispered my host
Society
Shakespeare’s Globe
- 30 October 2008
I spied Prince Michael paying obeisance to Paris Hilton. Did he have any idea who she was? Probably not
Lifestyle
Shakespeare's Globe
- 16 October 2008
If this were an Oscar Wilde story, our future would be foretold in Robert Peston’s follicles
Politics
Look, what a lot of dust I raise. Scandal and scurrilities, wrote Voltaire, are the bad fruits from a very good tree called liberty. Sebastian Shakespeare on why politicians make the best gossips of them all
- 18 November 2002
Scandal: a scurrilous history of gossip
Roger Wilkes Atlantic Books, 363pp, £17.99
ISBN 1903809630
Politics
From one "tricky little prick'' to another
- 04 November 2002
Commentary - Sebastian Shakespeare asks Tory ex-ministers how it feels to be insulted by Alan Clark
Society
NS Profile - Hay-on-Wye
- 10 June 2002
It is the annual, unmissable literati event. But behind the scenes, you'll find control freaks, petty feuds and spin. Hay-on-Wye profiled
Books
Novel of the week
- 25 March 2002
The Feast of the Goat
Mario Vargas Llosa Faber and Faber, 404pp, £16.99
ISBN 0571207715
Books
Fiction of the week
- 19 November 2001
The Complete Short Stories
J G Ballard Flamingo, 1,200pp, £25
ISBN 0007124058
Books
Commentary - Sex, power and corruption
- 04 June 2001
Sebastian Shakespeare selects the best satire on journalism ever written
