Ten Cities: Viewing Africa from the dancefloor
The Goethe Institute in Kenya along with the Centre for Postcolonial Studies at the University of Naples have embarked on a project called Ten Cities. The idea? To look through cities in the...
View ArticleWhat kind of home do people really want?
If you’re in a four-bedroom, detached, Victorian house with a big garden and walk-in wardrobes in a village in the South West of England, then you’re living the dream according to new research by...
View ArticleMario Balotelli and the sports stars who make a greater impact on headlines...
Mario Balotelli appears set to return to Italy Thank God for Mario Balotelli. Without him, this window would’ve been so dull we wouldn’t have needed curtains. Until Monday, the overall newsworthiness...
View ArticleReview of Broadchurch – Series 1, episode 3
SPOILERS: Do not read this if you have not see series 1, episode 3 of ‘Broadchurch’ It’s been a week since Danny died and the police came close to finding a suspect in episode three, but not close...
View ArticleWhile Huhne is in jail, the Lords expenses fiddlers claim on
The troughers in ermine have been at it again. The House of Lords is the only workplace where someone can be caught fiddling expenses, go to prison, and then go back, all brass-necked, to carry on...
View ArticleChampions League success has become the top priority for Juergen...
Dortmund manager Juergen Klopp has been linked with Chelsea Roman Abramovich has suffered another setback. Yet another of Europe’s finest managers has sent a rebuffal into the heart of West London...
View ArticleGove’s “Liberation Theology” Speech
One reason Michael Gove will never be prime minister is that he cannot resist a good joke. His speech to the Social Market Foundation yesterday was a joy to read, partly because his mockery of...
View ArticleIraq 10 Years On: Was It Worth It?
The wheezing traction engine of Blair rage is being cranked into action again, as the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq (20 March) approaches. Each time, the arguments on the anti side become...
View ArticleFriday Book Design Blog: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
I wrote on this blog last week about permanence being central to our idea of the physical book. After all, the codex – a book of hinged pages, as opposed to the earlier scroll – has been around for...
View ArticleDish of the day: Chefs who get bored of cooking when they get home? I ...
Sitting at home, cold beer, it’s 2am. Having dealt with a breakfast rush, a brunch rush, and lunch rush and, er… a dinner rush, I realise I’ve not eaten all day. I know it’s bad, but when you are...
View ArticleTwo Faces of Nick Clegg
It is the blank-faced cynicism of Nick Clegg that we should fear the most. He has an article in The Independent on Sunday today reminding us that he was against the war in Iraq and saying that he is...
View ArticleGary Johnson has found the magic formula at Yeovil
Gary Johnson A seven-match winning streak is a remarkable achievement for any Football League club at the best of times but one assumes you’d have to trawl some way back through the history books to...
View ArticleChampionship Preview: Wolves and Bristol City prepare for relegation battle...
The bottom of the Championship is extremely tight with five points separating the bottom eight teams. Therefore Bristol City who are bottom and Wolves who are directly above them on goal difference...
View ArticleAston Villa boss Paul Lambert out on a limb
Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert It was on the back of an Aston Villa victory in August 1995 that Alan Hansen uttered one of football’s immortal quotes. Now, almost 20 years on, it’s Aston Villa...
View ArticleCyprus? There but for the grace of God goes Britain
There’s been a lot of head shaking in recent days about the size of Cyprus’ banking sector relative to its economy. And it is indeed grossly inflated with assets and liabilities at around €126bn, or...
View ArticleJon Cruddas and “belonging”
Jon Cruddas, Ed Miliband’s policy head, gave an interesting speech at the Resolution Foundation yesterday. It was entitled “Earning and Belonging”, which sounded ominous, and indeed there was a lot of...
View ArticleWhat if the internet broke?
Danny Hillis in a TED talk (video at Mashable) wondered what would happen if “bad and foolish people” sabotaged the internet: We’re setting ourselves up for a kind of disaster like the [one] we had...
View ArticleFreedom from torture at the Bath Literary Festival
(Getty Images) ‘What happened to me, the marks on my body, the memories, they are going to be my souvenirs.’ These words are those of a victim and survivor of torture recounting the horrific...
View ArticleSomething For The Weekend in London March 15-17
This weekend we’ve rounded up a pair of festivals, a homage to H2O, a photography workshop and a hip creperie in Shoreditch that could be the one for your Friday night (or anytime really; we hear they...
View ArticleCheltenham Festival – Day 3
(Getty Images) Dispatches from the front line of The Greatest Show On Turf – Thursday 14th March Thursday at the Festival used to offer significantly poorer fare than the other three days. Not now....
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