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SAGA – PAXMAN
You know those tired magazines you find in doctor’s waiting rooms?
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A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet
But, just occasionally, you wonder why the particular pool into which you are casting your fly did to deserve the name it has
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C.R.W. Nevinson
British artists sent to the Front during the First World War captured its brutal horrors like nothing else, but no one more so than C.R.W. Nevinson, argues Jeremy Paxman
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My dog could have won a better Brexit deal than those forelock tugging drones we sent out to battle Brussels
Jeremy Paxman on Brexit for the Mail on Sunday
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Talon Show
To see an osprey haul a fish out of a river or loch is one of the most thrilling sights in nature
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Jeremy Paxman: Mindfulness? I’d rather go on safari
In Zambia’s Lower Zambezi national park, the FT writer finds that nothing unhinges one’s sense of self quite like the wild
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Jeremy Paxman on meeting Joan Baez and liberating his right brain
The FT contributing editor encounters a hero of his youth, and discovers the rewards of a life-drawing class
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Jeremy Paxman on dog decorum, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the year ahead
The FT contributing editor on surviving the worst night of the year
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Jeremy Paxman’s Diary: ‘University Challenge’ vs ‘The Voice’
FT’s contributing editor on reality TV and the future of fly-fishing
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The political dullards masquerading as leaders
Where are the public intellectuals in this age of reality TV?
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Diana’s death was a moment of truth for the royal family
Britain is not the country it was 20 years ago, and that is partly the late princess’s doing
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The terrible cost of Scotland’s salmon farms
The veteran angler Jeremy Paxman bemoans the rise of salmon farms and the ‘bleak’ prospects for these wild fish
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In May and Corbyn, Britain has the politicians it deserves
One a nervous geography student the other an avuncular lecturer, both inhabit a dull, parallel universe
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University Challenge and why everyone loves a clever-clogs
Memes and Monkmania reveal an enduring regard for scholarship
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The happiest days of my life have been spent in rivers
Rivers built Britain, so get out there and enjoy them
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The naked truth is that flesh lacks appeal
Naturism has good reason to be a minority activity in the UK
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On the future of the police
On the frontline to discover if the service is equipped to deal with modern Britain
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Mealy-mouthed ministers, greedy drinks giants
And why I back the Mail campaign to end the blight of plastic bottles
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A hundred years of Windsors but still the Queen is partly German
A century ago the royals bowed to public opinion and changed the family name
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London diary: Jeremy Paxman on heads of state in the age of Trump
A week of filming ‘University Challenge’ and a documentary in Washington, plus a visit to the National Army Museum in Chelsea
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Fake news makes old concerns redundant
Disclosure is not the same as the repetition of tittle-tattle
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Night terrors stalk a hospital drama
What I relate here all happened this week at a London hospital which I will not name
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The Diary: On Grammar and Goebbels
One of the stranger aspects of being a modern author is the expectation that those who have sweated blood over a keyboard must then sign by hand thousands of printed copies
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Writing a memoir: Jeremy Paxman on telling it like it was
For Jeremy Paxman, deciding what to reveal posed a series of challenging questions
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I'm Jeremy Paxman, ask me anything
Extracted from A Life in Questions
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The great grammar school row and the curse of ‘bring backery’
Britain is walking backwards into the future, certain its best years are in the past
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The Diary: Mature Times & The Man Who Ate A Zoo
The FT’s contributing editor thinks the most striking thing about rooms full of old people is how very little you see them laughing
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Why Britain Voted To Leave The EU
So, farewell then, David Cameron. No Prime Minister has made a bigger miscalculation since Anthony Eden thought he could get away with invading Egypt in 1956 to recapture the Suez Canal
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The European referendum has energised people
The FT’s contributing editor on how the European referendum has energised people, the growing elderly population and fishing
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Voilà, English wins in the battle of global tongues
Teaching French is like promoting dahlias — it is no way to thrive, writes Jeremy Paxman
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The Diary: Egypt
The FT’s contributing editor on having his phone shut in the fridge and spectacular buildings with nothing much inside
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The Diary: Coventry Cathedral & University Challenge
The FT contributing editor on visiting Coventry’s cathedral, ‘University Challenge’ and journalism’s exuberant humour
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Why the golf scene has landed in the rough
Greens and bunkers are to nature what toy poodles are to wolves
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Britain's naval heritage
The FT contributing editor on Britain’s naval heritage, BT’s helpdesk service and a new award for Brazen Nonsense of the Year
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England needs to find a new national anthem
‘God Save The Queen’ has 2 problems: the words and the tune
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Lunch with the FT: Jeremy Clarkson
The most famous petrolhead on the planet is loved and loathed in equal measure. He sits down for a surprisingly sober Italian to discuss cars, cigarettes and Kristin Scott Thomas
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The Diary: Bridget Jones's Baby
The FT contributing editor on the forthcoming Bridget Jones film, etiquette in the Tube and a Samuel Pepys exhibition
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Cull the grey vote — it is an affront to democracy
Britain would have a fairer society if it capped the voting age
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Jeremy Paxman on Europe’s last wilderness
Romania’s untamed mountains are threatened by logging. Can the ‘wildlands philanthropists’ save them?
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Who are the High Court judges?
There are 5,000 of them and they have an increasing sway over our lives, but who are they?
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What's wrong with cherishing the land in which you live?
The RSC's spine-tingling new production of 'Henry V' is full of patriotism – which reminds us that we live in an unheroic, self-doubting age
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The humdrum genius of Elizabeth II who has seen it all
Britain’s monarch is the quiet master of our constitutional absurdities
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Lunch with the FT: Mhairi Black
Over chicken korma in London, Britain’s youngest MP since 1832 talks about Scottish nationalism, her meteoric ascent into Westminster — and debating politics in the pub
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Best holiday reads 2015
Authors, critics and other bookworms tell us which books they will be reading on the beach
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Jeremy Paxman meets his Waterloo
The FT contributing editor encounters Napoleon and Wellington as the battle is restaged in Belgium
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Expansion of the university sector has destroyed its status
Too many students, paying high fees, and academics on low pay are symptomatic of our broken system
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Folly of a £50bn HS2 project must hit the buffers
The high speed railway scheme is a grotesque waste of money
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Richard Burton, Victorian explorer
‘Ruffian Dick’ spoke 40 languages, infiltrated male brothels and Mecca and is remembered as Britain’s most flamboyant adventurer
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A wake-up call for those sick of politics
Something’s clearly wrong with British politics but that’s no reason not to vote in the general election
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The Diary: John Singer Sargent & coin forgery
One of TV’s most feared interviewers on Britain’s general election, John Singer Sargent and the poetry of Clive James
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Chile & Tunisia
I am just outside the town of Cochrane in southern Chile. It’s not much of a place
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Jeremy Paxman to tread the boards again
A theatre production about Macbeth will see Jeremy Paxman take to the stage with TV actor Christopher Eccleston
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Cross examined?
Third Way Magazine, Christian comment on culture, meets Jeremy Paxman
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A revolting ‘fly’ for salmon fishing
Responses to my suit scam question and a new ‘DNA’ definition
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The genius of George Orwell
George Orwell died on January 21 1950. Jeremy Paxman pays tribute to one of England's greatest writers
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Churchill would fail in politics today
Former Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman claimed the wartime Prime Minister was 'a parliamentary one-off'
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Littering is as shameful as drink driving
Why dropping litter should be as shameful as drink driving: Jeremy Paxman on his new campaign to clear up our streets - and why junk food firms MUST be forced to help
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Why must Songs of Praise chase advertiser-friendly viewers?
Come and visit your taxes at work in Belfast
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Was Lord Kitchener gay?
Was Lord Kitchener gay?
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Was Napoleon a midget?
The FT’s contributing editor on naval gazing, performance poetry and whether Napoleon was a midget
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'Futility' by Wilfred Owen
'Futility' by Wilfred Owen
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Why silence is not enough
The Daily Telegraph
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The strange death of Lord Kitchener
The British war secretary’s demise at sea in June 1916 has spawned endless conspiracy theories. A century on, can the speculation be laid to rest?
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If I were king for a day, I would ban open-plan offices
Such offices tell us what our bosses think of us – that we are employed to fulfil a mechanical task and we are interchangeable
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Stop whingeing about Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love ended up winning seven Oscars but at the time of its release in 1999 Jeremy Paxman weighed in to defend scriptwriter Tom Stoppard's film against the charge of intellectual elitism
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Untold stories of the war
Jeremy Paxman tells some of the surprising and heart-rending stories still emerging from the conflict
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The Invention of News
The news – noisy, self-important and often pointless?
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I love this country – often we don’t know how lucky we are
The "withering and witty" Newsnight presenter talks to Radio Times about his new historical series Britain's Great War
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The First World War: Jeremy Paxman in conversation with Bronwen Maddox
On 29th October, Prospect hosted an event with Jeremy Paxman at London’s Royal Geographical Society to discuss his new book Great Britain’s Great War with Prospect’s editor Bronwen Maddox
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Don't insult my Uncle Charlie or his comrades. Their sacrifice in WWI foiled Germany's plan to rule the world
A profoundly personal and thought-provoking new analysis of the Great War
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It’s only a beard but it’s a big burden
Jeremy Paxman's holiday beard has become one of the most discussed topics in the news after he decided not to shave it off before appearing on air, but the reaction has surprised him
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Jeremy Paxman interviews Chloe Smith: the full transcript
The Tory junior minister's performance on Newsnight following the government fuel tax U-turn has been widely criticised
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We’re all monarchists now – even me
A republican in my younger years, Her Majesty caused a change of heart
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Boom time in Beijing
China riots over new iPhones and snaps up Rolls-Royces. On his first visit to the country, Jeremy Paxman is shocked by the flaunting of wealth
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I am part of the most selfish generation in history and we should be ashamed of our legacy
As it’s revealed today’s young will be 25 per cent worse off than their parents, the Newsnight presenter says he and his fellow Baby-Boomers have bequeathed little worth celebrating
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What Empire did for Britain
For hundreds of years, Britain shaped the history of the world. Yet it is shocking, says Jeremy Paxman, how little we appreciate the enduring effect of the colonial spirit on all our lives in this country
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Jeremy Paxman on the British Empire: where men went to run wild
In his new history of the British Empire, Jeremy Paxman explains why British men headed to India in search of love - and why the women soon joined them
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A Short History of England by Simon Jenkins
Jeremy Paxman finds that when Simon Jenkins is allowed his head he produces telling insights
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Besmirching of Britain
Where did the collective urge to wreck our country with litter come from?
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My hero: The BBC World Service
I don't suppose there are many heroes who wear a cardigan and cords. But that's how I imagine the BBC World Service
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Photograph of the decade
Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein in downtown Baghdad on 9 April, 2003
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The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
Jonathan Coe's engaging tale about a solitary man says much about modern society
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Jeremy Paxman’s Newsnight Quiz 2010
The Newsnight presenter celebrates 30 years of the current affairs show with his own trivia quiz
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'Infinite discovery and delight'
Fossicking for undiscovered jewels is one of the chief pleasures of a dictionary. No word ever quite dies. It merely becomes an ancestor who emigrated to a far corner of the world
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Why Wilfred Owen was the greatest war poet
For me, he is the greatest of all the war poets. But there is nothing original in my enthusiasm
