In 2002 Paul Boateng was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, making him Britain’s first black cabinet minister…
Month: October 2002
Between the Cynics & the Sycophants
Zadie Smith’s critics seem to fall into two stubbornly delineated camps: There are the sycophants, who fall at her feet and praise her to the skies, declaring her to be not only the next Rushdie, Dickens, Amis and McEwan all rolled into one (the sum being greater than its constituent parts); and there are the cynics, who claim that had Zadie Smith not existed she would have been invented by the media anyway.