Brad Pitt as Achilles in Troy, the Iliad

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

Michael Bywater Fri 14 Oct 2011, AT 09:45

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

riot police burning car Birmingham

When the shit hits the fan it’s time to think afresh

Michael Bywater Wed 10 Aug 2011, AT 09:35

50 facts that should change the world - or at least give us a new perspective

James Stewart and Valerie Varda

Cologne Guy v Ladybook: battle of the beach reads

Michael Bywater Wed 3 Aug 2011, AT 15:47

This is the week writers are praying you’ll make their latest book a bestseller

A wolf

Mad dogs of Wapping – not your ideal pet

Michael Bywater Wed 13 Jul 2011, AT 08:32

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

Kim Philby

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

Michael Bywater Wed 8 Jun 2011, AT 09:03

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

Santorini

Aegean beauty: the crazy world of Nigel McGilchrist

Michael Bywater Wed 20 Apr 2011, AT 07:09

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

aerotropolis

Nowheresville? Build an airport, the rest will come

Michael Bywater Tue 5 Apr 2011, AT 17:55

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

Osama bin Laden

Whatever became of Osama bin Laden?

Michael Bywater Tue 22 Mar 2011, AT 16:23

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

Star Island by Carl Hiaasen

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

Michael Bywater Tue 15 Mar 2011, AT 07:51

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

Julian Assange

How Assange’s acolytes came to see the truth

Michael Bywater Mon 21 Feb 2011, AT 14:07

Michael Bywater joins The First Post with a tale of betrayal, gamma rays and Spam (the meaty kind)

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