Rapscallion Magazine Feature: The self destructing prime minister Boris Johnson
The 2019 election victory for Boris Johnson writes Harry Mottram should have seen him in office for years – but he was…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: ticks, trains, tourists, leggy blondes and a non-ferry ferry – where nervous drivers fear the narrow lanes of Cornwall – a brief visit to the county by bicycle
By Harry Mottram: Seeing drivers get into a panic over reversing their massive SUVs a few feet in the lanes…
Rapscallion Magazine: truth, lies and debts – an expose of the author of The Salt Path, Raynor Winn, and her back story on how she became homeless – owing creditors thousands of pounds
By Harry Mottram: I had just read Chloe Hadjimatheou’s article in The Observer online about the author behind the 2018 memoir,…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: a new visitor centre, a massive car park and vegan pasties on the menu – but at least the stones remain the same at Stonehenge
By Harry Mottram: Stonehenge is many things but in the 21st century it’s also a monument to the evolution of…
Rapscallion Magazine Theatre Review: a game of two halves in RSC’s Much Ado About Nothing with bling, balls, boobs – but no escaping the daft plot and misogynist Tudor morals
The first half is all adrenalin and testosterone, as the footballers of Messina punch the air in a lively and…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: a match making hike in the rain in David Nicholls’ highly amusing and affectionate novel You Are Here
Book Review: You Are Here, by David Nicholls. Not so much love in a cold climate but a rain soaked…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: a sense of jeopardy hangs over the fate of the talking magpie Tama in Catherine Chidgey’s take on life in rural New Zealand in The Axeman’s Carnival
Book Review: The Axeman’s Carnival, by Catherine Chidgey Tama the talking magpie is many things – a social media star,…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: A troubled marriage, a brutal battle and the ignorance of the British expats in 1940s Egypt in Olivia Manning’s The Levant Trilogy as the Nazis threaten to invade, but it’s all about Harriet and Guy Pringle
Book Review: The Levant Trilogy, by Olivia Manning The heat, the flies, and the bloody expats – Egypt in World…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s brilliantly clear and simple prose brings to life artificial humanoid Klara in a futuristic world of genetically enhanced children
Book Review: Klara And The Sun. Some of the reviews of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel Klara and the Sun speak…
Rapscallion Magazine Radio Review: a moment of truth when deciding to defect from North Korea in Al Smith’s high drama account of Thae Yong-ho’s split second decision ‘to run’
Radio Review: The Defectors. Drama on BBC Radio 3.Golf or tennis? Such simple choices set in motion the high tension…