Recent articles by Michael Bywater

Lord Lucan escaped to Africa – a drunken Arab reliably told me

Tue 21 Feb, AT 16:32 Michael Bywater

The cross-Channel ferry story is nonsense – but the flight to Africa is entirely credible

Greek debt crisis - it's all mathematics to me

Fri 17 Feb, AT 08:37 Michael Bywater

Seventeen Equations that Changed the World is a bible for our times

No slacking! In the new world order, it's strive or die

Thu 9 Feb, AT 14:00 Michael Bywater

Strivers hate the slackers and fantasists. What they don't realise is that WE hate THEM

What Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is really selling

Fri 3 Feb, AT 16:04 Michael Bywater

When the last internet bubble burst it was all about debt. This time it's all about YOU

Pure genius: If you want to understand Davos, start in 1785

Thu 26 Jan, AT 07:05 Michael Bywater

What a story of priests and corpses, of glamour and decay, can tell us about the world we live in now

Concordia captain and Knox: victims of Italy's blame culture

Tue 17 Jan, AT 13:19 Michael Bywater

The Italian way is to blame and shame - but that's not how to investigate an accident

Spanking Sherlock: BBC gets the wrong end of the stick

Thu 12 Jan, AT 09:57 Michael Bywater

The kinky sex was a big mistake. For the genuine full-frontal Sherlock Holmes, read the stories

There’s more to life than adultery in north London

Fri 6 Jan, AT 15:27 Michael Bywater

Contemporary novelists might be letting us down - but who wants to read about people just like us?

Vaclav Havel: a rare man who crossed the great divide

Mon 19 Dec, AT 13:20 Michael Bywater

A writer tries to say what he means while a politician tries to say what people want to hear

The Big C: Hitchens lost to the Emperor of all Maladies

Fri 16 Dec, AT 13:15 Michael Bywater

'Nature - which Hitch defended against all the gods - is fine, until it all goes wrong'

Pippa's Arse: who's deceiving who in the world of publishing

Fri 9 Dec, AT 12:27 Michael Bywater

Theoretically, it's a book about how to give a party. But we all know how to give a party

Horrors of the Khmer Rouge: only fiction casts a little light

Fri 2 Dec, AT 16:37 Michael Bywater

If we can’t understand the Nazis and the Holocaust, how can we comprehend Cambodia’s atrocities?

Girl with the Woolly Sweater: ready to join the greats?

Fri 25 Nov, AT 10:59 Michael Bywater

Sarah Lund in The Killing is a very special detective. But the bar has been set high by Sherlock Holmes

Art of rhetoric - or how the pols pull the wool over our eyes

Fri 18 Nov, AT 08:00 Michael Bywater

'Understanding rhetoric is probably the most vital tool any of us can possess'

An offer James Murdoch can't refuse – a Mafia reading list

Fri 11 Nov, AT 07:37 Michael Bywater

James told MPs he's ignorant about the Mafia and their notorious code of silence, 'omerta'. Here's a starter kit...

What Europe needs now is the Terry Pratchett treatment

Fri 4 Nov, AT 07:40 Michael Bywater

'I used to dismiss Pratchett as suitable only for geeks and spods. Now I see he's a serious man'

Why Amazon's Jeff Bezos is not the new Steve Jobs

Thu 27 Oct, AT 08:39 Michael Bywater

Jobs obsessively loved the product. Bezos loves the market. So why isn't he doing better?

Barnes’s Booker: why do I get the sense of an ending?

Wed 19 Oct, AT 13:09 Michael Bywater

Michael Bywater: Look at the money - as a culture, it’s fair to say we wouldn’t piss on an author if he were on fire

The MoD is about people dying. Did Br’er Fox forget?

Fri 14 Oct, AT 09:45 Michael Bywater

I’ll send him a copy of ‘Memorial’. He’ll be a better man for reading it and he may soon have time

What Dickens could do for Dave Cameron’s Tories

Fri 7 Oct, AT 08:24 Michael Bywater

Face it, Mr Micawber's principle provides the perfect model for Daveism

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