1) Bram Stoker remembered
Friday marked the centenary of Dracula author, Bram Stoker’s, death and the efforts to mark the anniversary continued throughout the weekend. Vampires may be popular at the moment, but is there a danger that franchises such as Twilight could overshadow the original and the best of all vampire novels? Dacre Stoker, co-editor of The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker, is worried... (You can read The Telegraph’s four star review of The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker here!)
2) Deepak Lal on Russia’s ‘bleak economic and political future’
Writing in the Business Standard, Deepak Lal, author of Lost Causes: The Retreat From Classic Liberalism, writes on Putin’s rule and the prospect of an Arab-style Spring in Russia.
3) Anthony Seldon leads the call for state-funded academies
Anthony Seldon, Master of Wellington College, and author of Trust: How We Lost It And How To Get It Back, has been in the news this weekend, as he pioneers a scheme for state-funded academies, which will reportedly ‘have “well being” at the heart of the curriculum’.
4) Graeme Kent and the ‘chariots of dire’
Graeme Kent, author of the upcoming London’s Olympic Follies: The Madness and Mayhem of the 1908 Games, wrote in the Sunday Times’ News Review, of ‘Britain’s chaotic hosting of the 1908 Olympics’.
5) James Delingpole in Australia
James Delingpole, author of Watermelons, continues his tour of Australia. He adores the country, but is left wondering how it has been ‘watered down, warped and wimpified by a minority of tofu-knitting greens and tight-sphinctered lefties’.
6) David Swanson on the discussion on Afghanistan
David Swanson, author of War Is A Lie, writes of how a US veteran of the Vietnam war has managed to alter the discussion on the war in Afghanistan. Speaking of US soldiers using corpses as ‘trophies’, Scott Cavil said ‘The real question should be why are we at war in the first place? Why are we killing so many people in the first place?’