Christina Patterson
Christina Patterson joined The Independent's comment desk as an associate editor and contributor in 2007. Formerly a director of the Poetry Society, a literary programmer at the Royal Festival Hall and deputy literary editor of The Independent, she writes on cultural issues, books, politics and the arts.
Christina Patterson: Don't be vague, just go to The Hague
There is nothing like some music and art and good writing to lift the spirit.
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Christina Patterson: You can tell a lot about people by their friends
Saturday, 15 November 2008
Wouldn’t it be nice to return to a time when friends were not just names to be dropped?
Christina Patterson: A war of terror, not security
Saturday, 8 November 2008
In Britain and America we treat the men and women we expect to die for us appallingly
Christina Patterson: One thing Britain does well is religion
Saturday, 1 November 2008
Our state religion has been unobtrusive to the point of anaemic
Christina Patterson: Let's call a ceasefire in the battle of the sexes
Saturday, 25 October 2008
A revolutionary assumption has lain dormant: men and women are the same
Christina Patterson: Soup for us, canapés for the fat cats
Saturday, 18 October 2008
Was this the moment when we all stopped being relaxed about the filthy rich?
Christina Patterson: Art for art's sake (when the bubble bursts)
Saturday, 11 October 2008
Our mad market-led art culture has distorted judgements of what is good, or beautiful
Christina Patterson: Can we all please stop talking about sex?
Saturday, 4 October 2008
We vacillate wildly, from the coy to the clinical to the double entendre
Christina Patterson: Shandy Hall must be preserved
Saturday, 27 September 2008
Like so many writers’ homes, the house has survived on a wing and a prayer
Christina Patterson: Let's hail the women who buck the fashion
Saturday, 20 September 2008
That’s what we all do: respond to the world as we find it. Most of us, when it comes down to it, follow our tribe
Christina Patterson: Crazy for God... Sarah Palin, the devil and me
Saturday, 13 September 2008
We were going to spend eternity with the Lord. Most people were not, which was unfortunate
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• Steve Richards: Damian Green will soon be forgotten
Cameron’s speech, though good, was upstaged by Brown’s mortgage coup.
• Matthew Norman: A written constitution is the answer
Jacqui Smith is Brown’s lightning rod when it’s the PM we should be frazzling
• John Rentoul: Thanks Queen, but it's about the Budget
The Queen's Speech never has a theme, New Labour has never fabricated one.
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5 Mark Steel: Never mind the baby, just get back to work
6 Leading Article: Statistical improbability
7 John Rentoul: Thanks, Your Majesty, but it's all about the Budget
8 Robert Fisk's World: The British should not forget the massive debt they owe the Irish
9 Leading article: We can give Zimbabwe hope
10 Leading article: Now is the time to tackle the abuses of our welfare system
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