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Am I a dwarf or a horseman?

  • 28 June 2007
  • 7 comments

It's an honour to be mentioned in the same breath as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris. We could become known as the Four Horsemen of the Counter-Apocalypse

Waheed Pepsi, s'il vous plaît

  • 21 June 2007

Watching the glamorous, polyglot Lebanese enjoy the sun, I thought what an attractively sybaritic race they are

Excuse me, who am I?

  • 14 June 2007

The birth pangs of a film. The smell of Mumbai at night. And the mother of the streets who provides the dispossessed with a home

How my future caught up with the past

  • 07 June 2007

Art has the power to disrupt our relationship with the everyday. So does having your first child - I now live in a permanent state of immanence

Don't call me a fraud, or a forehead

  • 04 June 2007

The shocking seven dwarfs, why authors should always wear wellies in Wales, and abstract conversation with Yoko Ono

False friends and old adversaries

  • 28 May 2007
  • 3 comments

How long will Kouchner stay in his post and at what price? Is his appointment just a move by Sarkozy to destabilise the left ahead of parliamentary elections?

On tour and off the road

  • 21 May 2007

Spider-Man, Incredible Shrinking Man, Doctor Octopus . . . at no point in any science-fiction superhero story does radioactivity cause anyone to die a slow, lingering death

Miliband is the next Clarkson (not)

  • 14 May 2007

Asking him if he was running for the leadership was a bit like asking Cameron if he'd taken cocaine. Seeing that I'd done that as well, it would have been an abnegation of duty not to

Blair: my part in his make-over

  • 07 May 2007

I was asked to do his 1997 election broadcast precisely because my films are natural. The project was then hamstrung by people trying to create an image that would please the focus groups

Elections and politricks, Nigeria-style

  • 30 April 2007
  • 4 comments

I've reported on a lot of elections in my time, all the way from Iran to Zimbabwe, but I've never before interviewed a self-confessed vote buyer

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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