Michael Wharton

Michael Wharton is truly conservative and in consequence he finds the world in equal measure horrifying and hilarious. He can say things which most journalists would be too cowardly to write, even though most would think them. He has a marvelous eye for the absurd as in his creation of Harry and Janet Nodule, the well know traffic-jam fans of Turgis Hill in South London; or the letters of Brian Gumbs, reader in Non-smoking studies at Soup Hales University...

Michael Wharton is truly conservative and in consequence he finds the world in equal measure horrifying and hilarious. He can say things which most journalists would be too cowardly to write, even though most would think them. He has a marvelous eye for the absurd as in his creation of Harry and Janet Nodule, the well know traffic-jam fans of Turgis Hill in South London; or the letters of Brian Gumbs, reader in Non-smoking studies at Soup Hales University... See less