Claire Provost

Articles by Claire Provost

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Wembley's tent city

  • 16 July 2008
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How a battle to save a football ground and stop an academy school prompted teachers and other citizens in London to make camp in Wembley

Spreading the word

  • 22 May 2008
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Observations on Esperanto

Is this what a police state looks like?

  • 03 May 2008
  • 21 comments

Claire Provost, reporting on a demonstration outside City Hall on the night of the London mayoral count, finds herself put in a pen in by police. A case of democracy in action?

Voices of the mind

  • 10 January 2008

The Amputated Memory Werewere Liking The Feminist Press, 445pp, £21.50

Myriad endings

  • 10 January 2008

Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black, and Other Stories Nadine Gordimer Bloomsbury, 192pp, £14.99

Why American students are hunger striking

  • 19 November 2007
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How a growing student movement in the US is resorting to radical tactics to make their voices heard including hunger strikes

My best friend's iPod

  • 15 November 2007

Observations on marketing

The metaphorical life

  • 09 November 2007

From anti-capitalist zombies to existentialist New Orleans, this week’s world of arts brings allegories a-plenty

From Emo to Indie

  • 05 November 2007

Such is art to be introspective, but how much is too much?

Repetition with variation

  • 26 October 2007

Adaptations: This week’s world of art brings us recycled ideas and re-packaged money-makers

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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