Terence Blacker

Terence Blacker: From taboo to a modern fetish

Published: 29 November 2005

Far from avoiding bereavement where possible, we all want a share in it

Terence Blacker: No wonder the West End is in crisis

Published: 25 November 2005

Griffiths should have been fined heavily and forced to apologise in public for his silly, yobbish behaviour

Terence Blacker: I live in a 'horror conversion' - and here's why

Published: 23 November 2005

Planning departments are afraid of letting architects express the modern aesthetic

Terrence Blacker: The perfect 21st-century love affair

Published: 18 November 2005

In this golden age of fantasy Maverick provided Karen with the dream she longed for

Terence Blacker: Prince Charles, our newest literary star

Published: 15 November 2005

The PCC chairman has shown how hilariously dated the concept of discretion in public life has become

Terence Blacker: Our sneaking regard for life's scrappers

Published: 11 November 2005

For some people, great fights seem to snag in the brain like great sex

Terence Blacker: The bland face of modern Britain

Published: 08 November 2005

The less individual you are , the fewer your distinguishing features, the more likely you are to fit in and get on

Terence Blacker: Disgruntlement makes us what we are

Published: 04 November 2005

Anger may well be England's ruling passion, but that is nothing to be ashamed of

Terence Blacker: How the world turned into a village marketplace

Published: 01 November 2005

Those hooked on eBay confess to buying things even when they are not needed

Terence Blacker: Warning: passive nannying can be dangerous

Published: 28 October 2005

We become infected by the idea that the state should defend us against ourselves at all costs

Terence Blacker: Celebrity rots the brain - even Mr Fry's

Published: 25 October 2005

The problem is that it is not difficult to seem intelligent on a medium that is essentially stupid

Terence Blacker: Mindless panic is turning us into wimps

Published: 21 October 2005

We have become addicted to the exciting, scary idea that global disaster is about to finish us all off

Terence Blacker: Supermarkets on a shoplifting spree

Published: 18 October 2005

They claim to represent choice while eliminating from towns the butcher, chemist and bookshop

Terence Blacker: The new science of happiness

Published: 07 October 2005

We are but a smile away from a government happiness initiative

Terence Blacker: Censorship the Victorians would be proud of

Published: 04 October 2005

Who in their right mind would sit through 150 hours of film checking for unprotected sex?

Terence Blacker: We need the awkward squad

Published: 01 October 2005

It has been a week in which sitcom characters have invaded public life. Dear old Private Godfrey from Dad's Army tottered into the Labour Party conference, tremulously asked to be excused from the Iraq war and was ejected by Blair's bouncers as part of the Prime Minister's new respect campaign. A bolshy woman of a certain age, somewhere between Hyacinth Bucket and Margo from The Good Life, was sent to jail for non-payment of tax and then, to her great rage, released, while in Southampton, a court has been hearing the terrible story of Marlborough College's own version of the middle-class rebel Rik from The Young Ones.

Terence Blacker: Bullying has moved into the technological age

Published: 27 September 2005

One of the many laudable aspects of the late John Peel was that, even when he had become something of a national treasure, he avoided playing the games that the famous like to play. He neither boasted about his rather odd life, nor did he go in for the fake modesty that plays so well on chat shows. But the greatest miracle was that he avoided joining the great keening, blubbing army of celebrities who had, they claim, unhappy childhoods.