2007-02-22 07:11:25
Only a surrealist novelist ? or a British TV company ? could have thought of creating a swish new restaurant in the grounds of an abattoir, with large picture windows overlooking the scene of slaughter. So here we are, a...
2007-02-20 07:10:43
Glibness ? if it had a texture, it would be somewhere between treacle and baby oil. And we ? friends ? have just endured a monsoon season of glibness. The coming together of the Unicef report on childhood and a...
2007-02-17 07:58:39
An UnAmerican Life: The Case of Whittaker Chambers by Sam Tanenhaus Old Street, £25 What's Left: How Liberals Lost their Way by Nick Cohen Fourth Estate, £12.99AS A RED-DIAPER BABY, born in the mid1950s, the great causes in the foreground...
2007-02-16 10:18:23
I have been sent this pro-road pricing petition address by some enterprising people http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/yes2roadpricing/ It may go some tiny way to counter the support of the Telegraph, Mail, Mirror and so on for the hugely popular, misleading and myopic petition...
2007-02-13 19:09:33
All of a sudden David Miliband is everywhere, and the moment is full of hazards for him. First, let us designate him, for the purposes of this argument, as representing the future of Labour in government ? what with his...