Emma John

Emma John

Emma John is a sports journalist and deputy editor of Observer Sport Monthly magazine. She writes on the arts for The Guardian and is a former Time Out theatre critic.

Articles by Emma John

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Test of temperament

  • 02 August 2007

Playful banter and jelly beans cause a flap at Trent Bridge

Silly season

  • 19 July 2007

In a quiet period of humdrum coverage, Emma John ponders the meaning of sport

Ships in the night

  • 05 July 2007
  • 1 comment

The greatest regatta, the America's Cup, sails by unnoticed once more

Nice guys win, too

  • 21 June 2007

Some of tennis's most successful players are surprisingly humble

Racing to the bank

  • 07 June 2007

Fear of losing (money, that is) cripples the international sports bodies.

Local heroes

  • 16 April 2007
  • 1 comment

With new cuts to arts funding, small theatres will be the first to suffer. But their importance to communities has never been greater.

Testy feelings

  • 22 January 2007

The Australians' sense of humour failure shows their true character

Fouled!: How football hijacked our culture

  • 09 October 2006

Tens of millions of people in Britain have no interest at all in football. So, amid fresh allegations about bungs, international corporate crime and sexual excess, should we call time on our obsession with the once beautiful game?

Singing our own tune

  • 25 September 2006
  • 1 comment

The West End is full of American musicals . . . but where is all the British talent?

Un-American beauties

  • 07 August 2006

With Broadway theatres afraid to mention child-killers, politics, Aids or 9/11, radical playwrights from the US are flocking to Soho, Battersea and Edinburgh

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

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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Should we build new nuclear power plants?

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