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14 September 2009

Columns
Features
- How is Britain coping with the recession?- Edinburgh
  RBS: helpful to otters
  By Alyssa McDonald
- How is Britain coping with the recession?- Middlesborough
  Smoggies steel themselves
  By Dan Hancox
- Vince Cable: Beneath the halo
  Vince Cable is hailed by right and left as a prophet who predicted the crisis. But is he quite the informed economist of repute? And what about his time at Shell?
  By Mehdi Hasan
Critics
- Seduction line
  “What a tremendous eye he has,” said David Bowie of the film-maker Nagisa Oshima after working with
  By Ryan Gilbey
- Uncivilisation: the Dark Mountain Manifesto
  We have, it seems, led the planet into the age of ecocide. Can civilisation survive the unavoidable?
  By John Gray
- The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
  Why make a drama out of a crisis when a documentary captures it better?
  By Rachel Cooke
- Fish Tank (15)
  A quirky drama finds unexpected poetry in the Essex badlands
  By Ryan Gilbey
- Mover and shaker
  Forget Russell Brand – the real rebel on Radio 2 is the man who championed skiffle.
  By Michael Hodges
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