‘Seventies London was a great place to grow up. As the son of refugees, I say to the English: so long, and thanks for the language’

Thatcherism provoked great TV but the makers of Headcases are too liberal, too condescending and not nearly angry enough

Daisy Waugh eavesdrops on the chattering classes

Imagine you are a novelist. You want to create an instantly credible picture of middle-class life at some time in the past couple of decades — a suburb, a village, a pub. Easy: one chap passes another and asks, “Seen Matt today?”