Recent articles by Michael Bywater

Who will posterity bless: the lofty Vidal or the grounded Binchy?

Fri 3 Aug, AT 07:41 Michael Bywater

'Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little,' said the arrogant Gore Vidal – an odd thing for a writer to say

Hackers aren't the new Mafia - they aren't trustworthy enough

Fri 20 Jul, AT 07:56 Michael Bywater

Misha Glenny's DarkMarket shows there is no hacker 'community' - they live in suspicion of each other

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Fact and fiction: what links Eva Rausing and Amy Winehouse

Thu 12 Jul, AT 10:44 Michael Bywater

Innuendo and speculation tells us this is a story about rich people who do drugs and get what they deserve

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What the Sophie Roberts case really says about the NHS

Wed 4 Jul, AT 14:36 Michael Bywater

British doctors said two major surgeries and extended chemotherapy were enough. Were they right?

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How Alan Turing could have prevented the Natwest foul-up

Thu 28 Jun, AT 15:13 Michael Bywater

Managers do not understand computer geeks or what they do. So they sack them and pay the consequences

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Michael Gove is a squid who wants to enslave us with O-levels

Fri 22 Jun, AT 21:08 Michael Bywater

Gove and his Tory squid cohorts might even have gotten away with it if they hadn't read pesky Molesworth

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Would a modern Silent Spring be heard over the web twitter?

Fri 15 Jun, AT 14:40 Michael Bywater

Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson's seminal work of environmental journalism changed the world. Could it happen in a world of blog chatter?

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The Geek Manifesto, like reason, is too noble for our politics

Mon 11 Jun, AT 14:21 Michael Bywater

Geeks won't lie to make us feel better, which is why this call to put science into government will fail

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How a republican atheist like me can love a Fidei Defensor like you

Sun 3 Jun, AT 06:15 Michael Bywater

Big anniversaries for the Queen and the Common Book of Prayer make this journalist proud to be English

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Note to De Botton: sex is different in Bloomsbury and Rochdale

Fri 1 Jun, AT 08:03 Michael Bywater

Alain de Botton's new book is completely irrelevant to those who need it most

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Do the vultures really feel the pain of our financial crisis?

Fri 25 May, AT 15:51 Michael Bywater

The Illumination imagines a world where a person's despair is visible as a shaft of light. What would the City boys make of that?

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What money can't buy: all the best bits of Greece for starters

Fri 18 May, AT 07:55 Michael Bywater

A book that explains the scariest part of 'free market' is the word 'free' is a must read

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Fifty Shades of Grey is erotic fiction for trainspotters

Fri 11 May, AT 14:44 Michael Bywater

E.L. James may have 'raised eyebrows' around the world but her book is all about ticking the boxes of sexual perversions

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London under siege, France in revolution - plus ca change

Fri 4 May, AT 15:33 Michael Bywater

London today is a lot like London in the eighteenth century - but with surface-to-air missiles

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Why the righteous man is nearly always wrong

Thu 26 Apr, AT 16:09 Michael Bywater

If God had read 'The Righteous Mind' he might have spared Sodom and saved us a lot of trouble

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If only British voters could be as ruthless as the Pulitzer jury

Thu 19 Apr, AT 21:27 Michael Bywater

No Pulitzer fiction contender was good enough to win - and neither are our politicians. Let anarchy rule!

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Could 'thinking slow' save us from irrational markets?

Fri 6 Apr, AT 04:52 Michael Bywater

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's book shows us the importance of Thinking, Fast and Slow

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If you don't like God's word, write your own

Wed 28 Mar, AT 10:40 Michael Bywater

We should respect others' right to believe, but we don't have to respect what they believe.

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Hockey stick and climate wars: we're still lying to our children

Fri 23 Mar, AT 08:56 Michael Bywater

Michael Mann's expose of how the greedy dig themselves shows nothing has changed since the First World War

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What we need is a Secretary of State for Imagination

Fri 16 Mar, AT 08:12 Michael Bywater

And if Douglas Adams can't be in charge, then novelist Nick Harkaway might be the man

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