Tweet Either the Hay Festival is getting even better, or my critical faculties are diminishing. The weekend sun has certainly helped, as has the presence in the main site of one of Britain’s most authentic tapas bars, José Pizarro. Yet…
Tweet I have been coming to Hay for over a decade, but this event today was a first: the audience rushed the stage! Alongside my collaborator, Adam Lowe, we presented a new, three dimensional map of the world, alongside a…
Tweet The illustrator Conz (Belgium) came to Beirut to do a couple of events with Hay Festival about his work and has sent us this drawing of the city. Thanks Conz!
Tweet The landscape is a lush green as we wind our way through Wales. Mist collects between the trees. My spirits are undampened, though, because I’m heading for the Hay Festival, and Hay is a place filled with old friends…
Tweet The Oxfam Bookshop is now in its 5th year of opening its doors at Hay Festival. The shop is run by volunteers from Oxfam shops around the country and sells everything from fiction to philosophy, cookery to kids’ titles….
Tweet So, gorgeous as it is to be in Hay in sunny weather, I have left myself with something of a dilemma for my talk at the Festival. Because I am listed in the programme with both my hats on…
Tweet First impressions, late afternoon, Saturday, 25 May 25 2013 – after a 12-hour flight (LA to London), five hours driving in the rain, one flat tyre, only to find… Jet-lagged, stumbling in from Hollywood, the panorama before me is…
Tweet So good to be back and busy at Hay. The sun has shone and so have the words. So far the festival seems to have belonged to poets and political commentators, which is fine by me because I am…
Tweet It makes me giggle. It always makes me giggle – because we are just some people standing in a field on the Welsh border amongst books, deck chairs, and covered canvas walkways and yet it always feels like by…
Tweet The sun is shining in Hay. But for the moment we, my fellow judges and I, are unable to bask in it. We are gathered instead around a makeshift kitchen table – gingham cloth and all – in a…
Tweet The Hay Festival is great. Being on an event calendar with Quentin Blake and Eric Schmidt is great. Getting a presentation tent with ceiling full of tiny lit up stars is great. A full audience of kids and parents…
Tweet Hay is the festival I relish the most because its audiences want to challenge me or, if they like my ideas, to interrogate me as to where they come from. In speaking about Office Politics this year at other events, no…
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