Friday, 23 November 2012
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Danny Boyle says Government cuts are ruining the arts, but where are the statistics to prove it?Saturday, 24 November 2012
Championing the arts to government usually takes one of two forms. The importance is stressed of the arts either as a nurturing force for the population, giving education, enlightenment and understanding both of society and of oneself; or as an econo...
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With Sandy Island finally off the map, who's to say any of us are really hereSaturday, 24 November 2012
Only, it wasn't. It seems this invisibility issue could just be the result of an initial human error, which was then repeated down the years. Really? Some map maker decides to have a sandwich at his desk, spills some HP sauce on his work, so an isl...
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Letters: The new BBC – just as irrelevant as it was beforeFriday, 23 November 2012
No wonder the appointment was greeted with such approval by David Dimbleby who, along with his brother Jonathan, has followed their father, Richard, into the corporation. All Hall needs now is the similar public support of Dan and Peter Snow.Part of ...
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Editorial: Everyone's a winner in BrusselsFriday, 23 November 2012
That summit, of course, was about saving the euro, and not about the EU budget. And this makes a difference. Here, the 27 are on familiar territory, and there is no question of anyone – net donor or beneficiary – opting out. Each country's interests ...
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Editorial: Bravo, Ken Loach – please accept our medal insteadFriday, 23 November 2012
He has caused a bit of a fuss by turning down a premier award at the Turin Film Festival after learning of wage and staff cuts at the event's chief sponsor, the National Museum of Cinema. The festival retaliated by cancelling its screening of his lat...
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Editorial: Egypt's President has taken a big step backFriday, 23 November 2012
Within hours, all those hopes were dashed – and not because the truce had failed. For all its fragility, it was holding, to the relief of those on both sides of the Israel-Gaza border. No, the reason why such widespread optimism had turned so quickly...
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Morsi's power grab in Egypt is no surprise, but there will be social and political costsFriday, 23 November 2012
Since winning June's presidential election – when he was welcomed into office by tens of thousands of Egyptians celebrating in the centre of the country's Arab Spring uprisings, Cairo's Tahrir Square – he has achieved little to address Egypt's econom...
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Diary: There's a hole in our budget, dear Philip, dear Philip...Friday, 23 November 2012
There is an exercise under way to look into possible alternatives to Trident, as demanded by the Liberal Democrats. How much is that costing, the former Labour Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth enquired, in a Commons written question. The question was ...
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I'm a Celebrity has proved what we already knew; there's one law of the jungle for men...Friday, 23 November 2012
We don’t mind the men who do it: most of the time we vote for them and they win and then we all say, “Oh, worra decent bloke”, and wipe away a tear. But the women are harpies, “mentalists”, strident and unpleasant ball-busters with an agenda, an eye ...
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The case of Denise Milani and the British scientist proves – set a honeytrap and men fall in every timeFriday, 23 November 2012
So persuaded was he by the reality of this link that he flew to Bolivia to meet her for an assignation – and in his imagination, no doubt, a bit of slap and tickle – but ended up smuggling drugs for a cartel that had used Milani’s picture as a honeyt...
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Amazon should be paying more tax, so let's boycott them until they doFriday, 23 November 2012
It’s good to be reminded. Especially at a time when people are starting to boycott companies like Amazon and Starbucks, who avoid paying hundreds of millions of pounds of tax into the British economy – it’s tempting to give up shopping altogether. Ex...
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Tourism is one of our biggest industries, so why does it employ so few Brits?Friday, 23 November 2012
Yet in the UK, it never seems to be the case. At stays in hotels this year in Birmingham, Newcastle, Cardiff, Bristol and Bath, nearly all the staff seem to have been from Eastern Europe. Charming, efficient, helpful to a person. I have no desire to ...
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I went to France as a student. Now I’d choose KolkataFriday, 23 November 2012
Now that undergraduate fees in the UK are at £9,000 a year, it’s understandable that prospective students are looking around for alternatives. American universities are still more expensive, but a lot of people are thinking about European degrees. Th...
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As Catalans call for independence, you can feel it in the air: Spain is once more heading for break-upFriday, 23 November 2012
It’s no wonder that observers are drawing parallels between Spain in 2012 and the situation in 1936, on the eve of the civil war. Back then, the infant republic proved too weak to deal with the problems afflicting the country, both external and inter...
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Last week's big questions: Should the CofE disestablish? Europe: in or out?Friday, 23 November 2012
The current crisis in the Middle East requires everyone to take a big step back. It’s clearly unacceptable for Israeli civilians to have rockets fired into their midst. Equally, air strikes on Gaza that disproportionately affect civilians are unaccep...
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One of Israel's great leftist warriors wants peace with Hamas and Gaza - but does the Knesset?Friday, 23 November 2012
He’s still the same guy I last came across 30 years ago, playing chess with Yasser Arafat in the ruins of Beirut. White hair and white beard now, and roaring his words – he’s a wee bit deaf these days – with the same rage and humour as ever. I ask Av...
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Errors and Omissions: Many Blairs, but which one's Tony? Plus: not waving but waivingFriday, 23 November 2012
This isn’t Latin, you know. In English, an uninflected language, word order is crucial to meaning, and there is a limit to how much you can mess about with the one without scrambling the other. In this case, the reader is left puzzling about retailer...
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It's a difficult question for any disabled person to answer: would I want to be cured?Friday, 23 November 2012
A parent of a five-year-old girl with Rett Syndrome, Catriona Moore, today responded to Dominic Lawson’s column. She said that while she loves her daughter the way she is "unquestionably" she also wants her to be cured "more than anything in the wo...
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This week's wackiest web stories: Crocodile Drunkdee, Taliban D'oh and the £1m tattooFriday, 23 November 2012
Happy thanksgivingChristmas turkey saved from chop after falling for peacock at Hopetoun farm. scotsman.comNot so MerryA Santa Claus was left dangling from the ceiling after his beard became trapped while abseiling inside a Reading shopping centre as...
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The House I Live In shows how America's drug war has failed. Now, Obama must do something about itFriday, 23 November 2012
Eugene Jarecki’s new documentary The House I Live In, which I worked on as Production Intern, powerfully illustrates the impact of the government's illegal drug policy on Americans and the sheer absurdity of the situation in prisons: between 1980 and...
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The scandal of British food poverty shames us allFriday, 23 November 2012
In 2008/9 26,000 people in the UK relied on emergency food aid from a foodbank; which was 26,000 too many. By 2015 that figure is set to reach the truly shocking figure of half a million. Last year the largest foodbank organisation The Trussell Trust...
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Debate: As Debrett's gives the go-ahead to eating with your fingers, are table manners no longer relevant?Friday, 23 November 2012
What's going on?Debrett's has been been the go-to guide for etiquette since the first guide was published in the mid-1900s. But standards might be slipping. Today it was reported Debrett's has given the go-ahead to eating with one's fingers; traditio...
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Questionable Time: Iain Duncan Smith is no quiet man, especially when confronted by Owen JonesFriday, 23 November 2012
Anyway, sky-high expectations aside, bitter experience has shown that a solid panel does not necessarily a good show make. Could this robust sounding blueprint for QT heaven deliver on its promise? Well let's just see about that...I think I'm one ste...
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Roman Abramovich may own the business of Chelsea, but the club remains outside his graspFriday, 23 November 2012
In the normal course of events, it's safe to say, we wouldn't have very much in common. But by an accident of birth, or other happenstance, we have a shared support for Manchester City football club, and he took time off from running the world's larg...
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Straight Men Respond to Gay Men: Please marry our girlfriendsBuzzfeed Friday, 23 November 2012
"What you don't think we could?" asks one man "Have you seen us? We are ripped! All of us are ripped!"Yesterday Buzzfeed posted a response video in which straight men essentially say "Fine, take them." But do these men actually have girlfriends? As w...
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Teach your dog to speak EnglishWired Friday, 23 November 2012
According to an article on wired.co.uk, scientists have discovered that while humans leans to associate words with objects by comparing objects visually, dogs are more likely to employ their other senses, specifically "bite size and felt texture were...
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Policeman volunteers to assassinate ObamaThe Florida-Times Union Friday, 23 November 2012
Kovisto told the Florida Times-Union it was a throwaway comment that had been taken out of context, but according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, the President is not the only victim of Koivisto's ire; referring to the victims of Hurricane Sand...
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Meet the United State's first transgender elected state legislatorhuffingtonpost.com Friday, 23 November 2012
"It was not vulgar," she told the Huffington Post. "It was the way I would like to see politics handled, in a positive manner. [My being transgender] was never an issue, and I was quite happy with that."Laughton, 28, was born and raised in Nashua, th...
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