Readers of Jason Cowley’s article about Charles Hills in today’s Observer who would like to see a sample of Hills’s writing for Prospect can find a complete list of his articles here (some are available only to subscribers).
Recent Comments
- Tony Hay on Nuclear power? Not likely
- Jeff Pledge on A noble death?
- Zachary Bos on A noble death?
- Jeff Pledge on A noble death?
- Truth on Prospect online this week
- Truth on Prospect online this week
- singh on Gandhi 60 years on
- Jordi Casamitjana on A noble death?
- Zachary Bos on A noble death?
- Jordi Casamitjana on A noble death?
- Terrence O'Keeffe on In memoriam, DFW
- Sue on Closing the God gap
- Julian Gough on In memoriam, DFW
- Will Skidelsky on In memoriam, DFW
- Recent Links Tagged With "investigations" - JabberTags on We happy Danes, we band of brothers
Blogroll
- 3quarksdaily
- British Psychological Society research digest
- Crooked Timber
- Foreign Policy passport
- France Profonde
- Freakonomics blog
- Fugitive Peace—Gideon Lichfield
- Gauche—Paul Anderson
- Gideon Rachman
- Guido Fawkes
- Happiness and Public Policy
- Harry’s Place
- Marginal Revolution
- Normblog
- Oliver Kamm
- Overcoming bias
- Political Betting
- Pootergeek
- Potlatch—William Davies
- Prospect magazine homepage
- The Economist—Free Exchange
- The Guardian Comment is Free
- The Spectator—Coffee House
- The Times—Comment central
- The Virtual Stoa
I knew Charles when he was working for Monitoring. Although his stay there was short I have never forgotten him and eagerly read his pieces in Prospect. I caused a minor traffic jam on Waterloo Station when I picked up the Prospect which had his first Prisoner piece in it and stood there transfixed. The connection of genius and madness is almost a cliche, but certainly true of Charles. The true madness is putting someone like him in a prison like Belmarsh for so many years. If anyone is not guilty because of his mental state it is Charles. I just hope that the publicity of his case will find him a publisher and outlet as a truly original writer.
I had a letter from Charles this morning 24th June 2008, and it was almost cheerful, and positive.
He will be released a year from now, and the Prison he is comfortable, with friendly prisoners and staff. He is pleased that his own writing is going well, with the strong possibility that a book about his experiences in prison and his early life,will be commissioned.