Recent articles by Michael Bywater

The destruction of Amy: a proper Greek tragedy

Wed 27 Jul, AT 10:23 Michael Bywater

You have to go back to Aristotle to find a book that deals properly with Amy Winehouse’s death

Exposed: the nightmare of the London Olympics

Wed 20 Jul, AT 08:30 Michael Bywater

The debacle of the Murdochs, Brooks and Coulson is foreshadowed in this astounding book

Mad dogs of Wapping – not your ideal pet

Wed 13 Jul, AT 08:32 Michael Bywater

It’s a long time since the dog and the wolf were the same species

What the internet is seeing - and what it’s hiding

Wed 6 Jul, AT 08:49 Michael Bywater

Rumsfeld may have been a dickhead ­ but he wasn’t wrong about the ‘unknown unknowns’

Rome: Why let the facts spoil a good story?

Wed 29 Jun, AT 09:02 Michael Bywater

Power and glory – seeing Rome through the eyes of the great art critic Robert Hughes

God bless paraphernalia and other magical stuff

Wed 22 Jun, AT 11:55 Michael Bywater

You'll never look at a newspaper, a battery or a rubber band in the same way again

Why so much contempt for the working class?

Wed 15 Jun, AT 08:28 Michael Bywater

The working classes should be keeping their heads down, not enjoying themselves

Sex, lies and treachery: it hasn’t gone away

Wed 8 Jun, AT 09:03 Michael Bywater

One thing links these traitors - an unreasonable hatred of their homeland

When violence smashes into an orderly life

Tue 31 May, AT 11:42 Michael Bywater

A superb account of Britain’s first railway murder

Chuckles may be dead – but WWI is not forgotten

Tue 24 May, AT 09:48 Michael Bywater

Back to the Great War - when Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ actually stood a chance

Strauss-Kahn and the very French crime of vulgarity

Wed 18 May, AT 09:06 Michael Bywater

Is the affair of Dodo and the maid the stuff of fiction? Yes, but only French, never English

Bloggers have their roots in booze and printer’s ink

Wed 11 May, AT 13:48 Michael Bywater

Michael Bywater mourns Fleet Street’s golden days - but sees hope in the political bloggers

The surprisingly smutty world of Alan Bennett

Wed 4 May, AT 08:27 Michael Bywater

Michael Bywater: Two new stories find our national treasure on beguiling form

Zero degrees of empathy - it’s the root of all evil

Tue 26 Apr, AT 11:32 Michael Bywater

Michael Bywater on Simon Baron-Cohen’s fascinating study of what makes some people able to be cruel

Aegean beauty: the crazy world of Nigel McGilchrist

Wed 20 Apr, AT 07:09 Michael Bywater

Michael Bywater: Why write only one book on the Greek islands when 20 will do it better?

The age of information: how we got the message

Tue 12 Apr, AT 08:30 Michael Bywater

Michael Bywater: From African drums to Google, it’s a hell of a tale

Nowheresville? Build an airport, the rest will come

Tue 5 Apr, AT 17:55 Michael Bywater

Michael Bywater: Given enough runways and tax breaks, mega-cities can be constructed anywhere

Why this real-life Lolita has nothing to tell us

Tue 29 Mar, AT 08:53 Michael Bywater

Michael Bywater on Tiger, Tiger - the miserable story of a girl’s long relationship with a paedophile

Whatever became of Osama bin Laden?

Tue 22 Mar, AT 16:23 Michael Bywater

How the US and the rest of the world bought the Saudi myth and got Osama all wrong

The world of Carl Hiaasen: not as foreign as it seems

Tue 15 Mar, AT 07:51 Michael Bywater

Britain is nothing like Florida? Look at the swamp-life and think again

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