Stephen Smith
Articles by Stephen Smith
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Arts & Culture
Scanning the century
- 16 July 2001
Photography special - Bill Gates plans to deep-freeze the Bettmann Archive 200 feet below ground. But, asks Stephen Smith, what is the point of preserving 17 million photographs if nobody can see them?
Politics
Living up to Somerset Maugham
- 02 July 2001
They drink beer, not gin, and their women are now executives. Otherwise, the expats in Papua New Guinea are a blast from the past. By Stephen Smith
Arts & Culture
Fu fighters
- 04 June 2001
Martial arts - Stephen Smith gets a kick out of a kung fu video retrospective
Arts & Culture
King Henry
- 14 May 2001
Lounge music - Stephen Smith takes the score of the man who brought jazz to the movies
Politics
A rumble in the jungle
- 26 February 2001
World Wide Fund for Nature is proud of its eco-friendly forestry in Papua New Guinea. But the loggers are chopping down the wrong trees
Arts & Culture
Death becomes us
- 05 February 2001
Corpses - Stephen Smith lifts the lid on our squeamishness at the sight of dead bodies
Politics
Beyond the sentries of hell
- 29 January 2001
"Addicted to drink and women." More than 35 years ago, that was Che Guevara's verdict on Laurent Kabila and, with the Congo president now dead, Stephen Smithfinds it as fitting an epitaph as any
Society
A gong for Elton?
- 29 January 2001
Profile - Stephen Smith wonders why an old lefty is now singing for the Republicans
Politics
Always alone with a British passport
- 06 November 2000
In the novels of Graham Greene, Britons in trouble abroad could rely on Foreign Office help. Now, as several recent cases show, things are a little different
Arts & Culture
The end of the pier
- 16 October 2000
Entertainment - Stephen Smith laments the decline of a British institution
