Tag Archives: britain

Suddenly, everyone loves Michael Foot. Why?

One of the curses of age, it seems, is respectability.
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Off The Endz: estate life

You would not hesitate to slap him.
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Brit Insurance Designs of the Year: civilian applications

"Really simple stuff with objects looks like magic."
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European art & the financial crisis: yes, it matters

The supposedly decadent arts were co-opted into New Labour’s post-socialist agenda.
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Gerald Johnson’s “Tony”: sympathetic, terrifying, British

There is a reason your parents told you to avoid London arcades and certain Soho back alleys
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She Has Seen To It: an interview with Ellen Rogers

'Haunting' doesn't cover it – she is the image of sleeping death.
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I Am Yusuf and This Is My Brother: a conversation with Amir Nizar Zuabi

"If you ask me, Shakespeare is political, but not in the shallow sense of preaching or persuading you to think in one way."
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Andy Serkis is pure “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”

Serkis doesn’t so much inhabit the role but digs up the rocker’s body and controls it by necromancy.
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“44 Inch Chest”: secondhand embarrassment galore

This is more Harold Pinter’s comedy of menace than gangster flick.
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Paul Chambers: “privacy is dead, get over it” is not good enough

I have yet to hear of any terrorist quite stupid enough to announce his or her plans days in advance in an open forum such as Twitter.
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