Our offshore newspaper proprietors have won. Parliament will now be of the rich, by the rich, for the rich. For the millionaires in David Cameron's Shadow Cabinet there is nothing to fear from the Kelly proposals. Full Article at The Independent

Only a bad attack of nostalgia could have prompted Sarah Waters to write The Little Stranger. The novel is set in Warwickshire in the late Forties, when England is still trying to come to terms with the aftermath of the war. The old order is changing. Full Article at Calcutta Telegraph

Black comedy — I should make explicit here that I refer to comedy that violates social taboos, not comedy by African Americans — throve in the 1960s, with such luminaries as Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce mocking some of our national foibles. Full Article at The Corner

Stephen Poliakoff's Glorious 39 (a British premiere at the London Film Festival) is a far more subversive film than its Brideshead Revisited-style patina of nostalgia first suggests. Full Article at The Independent

The problem with the Conservative Party, Evelyn Waugh once argued, is that we have never put the clock back by even a single second. That’s probably because, as a mass democratic organisation, we have to respect public opinion. Full Article at Times Online

The novel traces Ryder’s days at Oxford, where he meets the eccentric Sebastian Flyte and his teddy bear Aloysius. The two become fast friends and more than friends. Waugh’s Augustan prose circumscribes this special relationship. Full Article at Blogcritics.org