Author Archives: Charles Lambert

Filth two

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Charles Lambert

An addendum to yesterday’s post about the holocaust denier who teaches at Rome’s La Sapienza university. There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle about it as a result of the Repubblica article, with the Dean threatening suspension and the ricercatore … Continue reading →

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Filth

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Charles Lambert

There’s a piece in today’s Repubblica about a holocaust denier. These people aren’t really worth the effort it takes to denounce them (and if you’re in the UK this evening, just don’t watch Nick Griffin on Question Time – he … Continue reading →

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They know no shame

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Charles Lambert

As you may already know, Berlusconi brought down the Prodi government a couple of years ago by purchasing the support, if not affection (i.e. they fucked but refused to kiss), of several senators. One of the first to slide his … Continue reading →

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Each family is unhappy in its own way

Posted on October 18, 2009 by Charles Lambert

Lionel Shriver has written an interesting piece on the way her family reacted to a novel in which they felt they’d been portrayed unjustly. As someone who’s currently working on a story that draws on my parents’ early life together, … Continue reading →

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It must be the reference to inches

Posted on October 10, 2009 by Charles Lambert

As anyone who follows this blog will know, I’ve received some strange Amazon recommendations in the past. You know, the ones that start: “As someone who has purchased or rated…’ You can see a couple of them here and here. … Continue reading →

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Nice one, Pat

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Charles Lambert

I haven’t posted a video by Pat Condell recently, so here’s his latest.

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For what it’s worth

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Charles Lambert

OK, here goes. I’ve been fretting about this Polanski business ever since his arrest – like practically everyone else in the western world I hadn’t given it more than the occasional thought before that, which is part of what makes … Continue reading →

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Me again

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Charles Lambert

Another self-promoting post, I’m afraid. Here’s a two-page glimpse of the first number of the new Cambridge Literary Review, which not only contains this poem, written in 1973, but also a memoir of my meeting with the concrete poet Dom … Continue reading →

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Link 7

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Charles Lambert

East of the Web and Wordia have collaborated on a new project. It’s called Link 7 and this is what East of the Web has to say about it: In partnership with Wordia, the video dictionary, East of the Web … Continue reading →

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Sniff, sniff

Posted on September 26, 2009 by Charles Lambert

First item on the lunchtime news programme on RAI 1 today was a hurriedly organised photo opportunity for Berlusconi and Benedict 16 at Rome’s second airport. B16 said it was a ‘joy’ to see Berlusconi, who responded with a cheesy … Continue reading →

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