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Life & Society
Warm, spontaneous and unstoppable
- 11 September 2006
What do those words conjure up for you? A catchy title for a radio programme . . . or something more embarrassing?
A fascist's guide to the Premiership
- 04 September 2006
The notion of being British has never been so devalued. Sport alone seems able to be the catalyst of significant social change. Could consumerism evolve into fascism?
No justice in Louisiana
- 28 August 2006
It is 100 degrees with 96 per cent humidity when I arrive in New Orleans. I have a gut feeling that the Angola Prison hearing, the reason I am here, is not going to go smoothly
What did I do to deserve this?
- 21 August 2006
Being publicly praised by MPs is like being outed. I wanted to tell my parents that I've been experimenting with reformism, but now the whole world knows
Where everyone's a work of art
- 14 August 2006
Was the man with the crown in the cast of a modern-dress Macbeth? Was he making a statement about how we are all kings? Or was he just unhinged?
Parish politics and the public toilet
- 07 August 2006
People who go to the Game Fair feel like a persecuted minority of hunter-gatherers. The trade stands offer doggy gourmet food. There is even a dog crèche
How to live to a hundred and twenty, Fidel-style
- 31 July 2006
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Cubans may still be denied such trifles as free elections, but they have perfect teeth, and there seems to be only one obese person in the whole of Havana
My baguette with Václav
- 24 July 2006
The ex-president, poet and playwright approaches, apologising profusely that he lifted my sunglasses from the brasserie table the previous day
I've become a bean-eating liberal
- 17 July 2006
There is growing concern that this president does not share our values. Oh, for The West Wing's Jed Bartlet in the White House
Life & Society
Beware the fork-wielding terrorist
- 10 July 2006
I mused on how history is rewritten by the victors. Even during the IRA bombing, we teenagers still had a lurking respect for them. Not my son
