Jonathan Meades’s Pedro and Ricky Come Again: Selected Writing came out in 2021. His novel Empty Wigs is due in 2025.
The Queen unveiled the Bomber Command Memorial at Hyde Park Corner on 28 June. ‘Sixty-seven years too late’ according to a chorus of jingoists who have apparently long been militating for such a memorial. The urbane Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede designed by Edward Maufe was evidently reckoned insufficiently specific. And the appetite for acknowledgment was hardly sated by the...
Jonathan Meades explains why he doesn’t like herbs, fine dining and organic vegetables as he discusses his first and only cookery book, The Plagiarist in the Kitchen, with John Mitchinson.
Iain Sinclair, Will Self and Jonathan Meades discuss London’s relentless processes of erasure and renewal.
Lists make us feel better. They take the uncertainty and messiness of life and spray it with a sense of purpose. On low days, I sometimes write to-do lists of tasks I have already done and put...
Meades is our greatest exponent of what the Russian Formalists called ostranenie, ‘making-strange’.
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