Michael Bywater (born 11th May 1953) is a British writer and broadcaster. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located
He was educated at Nottingham High School. Nottingham High School is a British independent fee-paying boys' public school situated about a Mile north of Nottingham City centre He was a long-running columnist for The Independent on Sunday, an early futurist for The Observer, spent ten years on the staff of Punch, where he wrote the Bargepole column, as well as having written regularly for The Times, and been a contributing editor to Cosmopolitan and Woman's Journal. The Independent is a British compact Newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly 's Independent News & Media. The Observer is a British Newspaper published on Sundays In about the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Punch was a British weekly Magazine of Humour and Satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002 The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. Cosmopolitan is the best-selling young women's magazine in the world He also regularly writes about high-tech stuff for The Daily Telegraph and a wide variety of technology magazines. For "The Daily Telegraph" in Australia see The Daily Telegraph (Australia. He is said to be cultural critic for New Statesman. The New Statesman is a British Left-wing political Magazine published weekly in London. He also supervises on the Tragedy paper for a number of Cambridge colleges and, in 2006, was Writer-in-Residence at Magdalene College, Cambridge. The city of Cambridge (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England Magdalene College redirects here see also Magdalen College Oxford Magdalene College (ˈmɔːdlɪn was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel in time He also collaborated with best friend Douglas Adams on three computer games, and Bywater was the inspiration for Adams' Dirk Gently character. Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 &ndash 11 May 2001 was an English author comic Radio dramatist Dirk Gently (real name Svlad Cjelli also known as Dirk Cjelli) is a fictional character created by Douglas Adams and featured in the books Dirk [1]
He previously has been identified as a Young Fogey. The term Young Fogey was humorously applied in British context to some younger-generation rather buttoned-down writers and journalists such as Charles Moore and for a while In The Young Fogey Handbook (Poole, Dorset: Javelin Books, 1985), author Suzanne Lowry writes: "Michael Bywater, 30-year old Punch columnist and former trendy who once worked in films, made bold to criticise Burberrys for the inferior quality of their product - the trench coats are not what they were in the days of the trenches. Burberry ( is a British luxury fashion house manufacturing Clothing and fashion accessories. A trench coat or trenchcoat is a Raincoat made of Waterproof heavy-duty Cotton drill or Poplin, Wool Gabardine Burberrys riposted that indeed they could live up to their past, and made Bywater a coat to the 1915 design devised by Kitchener and Burberry - complete with camel hair lining to protect a gentleman officer's flesh on the field. . . "
His book, Lost Worlds, on the human tendency towards nostalgia, was published in 2004, and his book, Big Babies, on the infantilisation of Western culture, was published in November 2006. A book on his journeys around the Australian Outback in a Cessna 172 continues to be a work in progress, due out 'soon'. Outback or the Outback refers to remote arid areas of Australia, although the term colloquially can refer to any lands outside of the main Urban areas WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout
He is a certified pilot and harpsichordist. A harpsichord is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. He has one daughter, Benedicta.
He also played the organ with Gary Brooker for the 'Within Our House' charity concert.
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