School of African and Oriental Studies

Karl Miller called me his ‘great white hope’. I failed him, of course

11 October 2014 9:00 am

As I think I said in this column the other week, I used to sneak into English lectures at University…

An undergraduate anorak at 32

6 September 2014 9:00 am

When I was 32, tired at last, for the moment anyway, of seizing the day, I stopped drinking and gave…