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- A wide Brown land shaking off its collective memory
In a country which periodically agonises its way through debates about its history and frets regularly about the quality of history teaching, it is remarkable how resistant we are to embedding notes and pointers on our past in the urban and rural landscapes.
Issue 19 : Published 23-Dec-2006
- Blind cricket tourist who sees the point of sport
Andy Gemmell, who is 54, is in Australia on a long holiday during which he’s going to the cricket and the races and catching up with friends he met through the Compton Arms in Islington, London. The main difference between Andy and other Ashes tourists is that Andy is blind.
Issue 19 : Published 23-Dec-2006
- Only books for politicians at Christmas
In the ideal world, the Christmas stockings of politicians would be filled with books. No bottles of single malt. No Tom Waits triple CD (alas). Only books.
Issue 19 : Published 23-Dec-2006
- Bodies and brains already merged with computer power
The animated family conversation was becoming louder. Looking for signs that it was disturbing the other passengers, there was no need to worry. On a tram which was two-thirds full, almost all were staring into space, plugged into their iPods.
Issue 18 : Published 11-Dec-2006
- A place where story and song make race and recrimination obsolete
No politician or poet from the Old World will lead us there. It will be someone from the new lands, who mills ideas into food and education and healing for thousands of people, who understands that power only matters, finally, when it is a verb.
Issue 17 : Published 13-Nov-2006
- A man of Middle Eastern appearance who dreams of peace
2:41 am. There was an luminescence in the room. I made one of those random, unaccountable mental connections that such occasions often evoke.
Issue 17 : Published 13-Nov-2006
- Care to remember?
We would normally expect outrage at this combination of evil doing and mendacity. Instead we find indifference.
Issue 8 : Published 16-Jun-2006
- Cable czars
I always did like the telly more than was good for me—but frequently as I churn the remote through umpty-five digital cable channels I find nothing that’s any good.
Issue 6 : Published 25-Apr-2006
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