Minoo Dinshaw, Author at Catholic Herald

Minoo Dinshaw

The new Jacobites? What the Sussexes could learn from the Stuarts

June 19, 2020

At the beginning of this year Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, took the decision to declare independence from the rest of the House of Windsor. They sought to invent a brand new, exciting, even progressive role. The lengthy subtitle of their forthcoming biography – authorised by the Sussexes though very

Forewaughned

August 09, 2020

The last novel that Evelyn Waugh composed, as opposed to adjusted, is The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957). It is unanimously acknowledged as a searing and candid self-portrait, and as such contains a lapidary summary of its author’s politics: [Pinfold] had never voted in a parliamentary election, maintaining an idiosyncratic toryism which was quite unrepresented

Shelter from the (Twitter) storm

June 22, 2020

In amongst the “culture wars”, expanses of Twitter’s territory remain good-humoured refuges. The social media platform Twitter is often referred to by its resentfully enthralled victims as “the hellsite”. Heavy Twitter users come to find the exigencies of tweeting a constant drag on life, thought and – especially – literary productivity. All this is worsened