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“... It consists of Langan’s self-portrait, written in the sleepless marches, to which the art critic Brian Sewell has contributed a memoir of friendship which will come as a pleasant surprise to readers more accustomed to his inspired Sowerberry in the columns of the Evening Standard. Last month on his birthday Peter’s wake was celebrated by hundreds in ...”

“... officers’; the direct entry officers, who are actually Scots, are generally posh enough to make Brian Sewell sound a bit common.) The role of the armoured divisions is ‘all about driving around in huge fuck-off Challenger 2 main battle tanks, crushing screaming infantrymen beneath your tracks (many of whom will be members of enemy forces) and blowing ...”

“... Sarah Kent (Time Out), Richard Dorment (Daily Telegraph, oddly enough). Against: Modern Painters, Brian Sewell (Evening Standard), Giles Auty (Spectator), Glynn Williams (at the RCA) and any number of Johnsonian or Waugh-like commentators who throw themselves into the breach on wet afternoons. But it’s no neat line-up. Auty is too reactionary for ...”

“... as a battle of wits from a spirited fairy tale. The show was popular, and the crowds were hushed. Brian Sewell praised it, against his first instincts, he admitted. Stallabrass doesn’t mention Pacheco, or indeed many other artists who aren’t in the Tate inner circle, even by way of contrast to his lite targets, and although Dark Night of the Soul ...”

“... and éclat’. The Times warns of the ‘danger of getting trapped in a successful formula’. Brian Sewell of the Evening Standard ends the page by saying the same and adding that the paintings of this ‘precocious prodigy’ speak ‘only of provincial inexperience’. These ladies and gentlemen of the bench of metropolitan critical adjudications ...”