Christina Patterson
Christina Patterson joined The Independent in 2003 as deputy literary editor and is now a full-time writer and columnist. A former director of the Poetry Society, and literary programmer at the Southbank Centre, she writes on culture, politics, books, travel and the arts and does the weekly "big interview" for the Arts & Books section. Interviewees have included Martin Amis, Alastair Campbell, Werner Herzog, David Starkey and Bryn Terfel.
Christina Patterson: The big problem with the NHS isn't funding
I won’t bore you with the mammogram that turned out to be an X-ray of an ankle
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Christina Patterson: Predicting the perils of predictive text
Thursday, 13 August 2009
At a packed audience at a London theatre last year, Seamus Heaney announced that he was a big fan of predictive text. The Nobel laureate who has, for nearly 50 years, been "digging" (according to his most famous poem) with his "squat pen" now, it seems, taps away at his handset like a bored teenage boy. C u 2moro! GBT! 4Q m8! Well, perhaps not that.
Christina Patterson: The price of this war keeps going up
Thursday, 6 August 2009
Fighting on the frontline is tricky, of course, but if you want real stress, try working for the MoD. Actually, if you want real stress, just try speaking to them. When I last phoned them up, about casualty figures in Iraq, I thought I was going to explode.
Christina Patterson: The hangover that women can't shake off
Saturday, 1 August 2009
Yes, we need cheaper childcare, but the real question for women is ‘Are you hot?’
Christina Patterson: Oh, the delights – and dangers – of charm
Thursday, 30 July 2009
On Monday night, a contemporary sex symbol celebrated the life and loves of a spiritual brother. Byron, said Rupert Everett in a Channel 4 film, In Search of Byron, was "the first modern sex symbol", the "first international celebrity" and "one of the earliest practitioners of PR". He was also a rather good poet, but the poetry, it soon became clear, was not Everett's chief concern.
Christina Patterson: Thank God for the Church of England
Saturday, 25 July 2009
I like the fact that it’s mature enough to recognise doubt – and that it is calm
Christina Patterson: What Americans want is not what they need
Thursday, 23 July 2009
It had to happen. Barack Obama has been ousted by Susan Boyle. Let me say that again. The President of the world's only hyperpower has been pushed from the TV schedules by a plump Scottish spinster with quite a nice voice.
Christina Patterson: Self-help books don't work, but I love them anyway
Saturday, 18 July 2009
Don’t you just love the exclamation marks? I love the perkiness. I love the confidence
Christina Patterson: Tips on parenting from the dad of a 'stupid kid'
Thursday, 16 July 2009
Just occasionally, in the litany of bad news about the economy, and bad news about the government, and bad news about the environment, and bad news about the general collapse of everything all the time, you hear something that makes you want to cheer. For me that moment came yesterday morning when I was brushing my teeth. I was listening to an interview with a man called Richard Cass, whose son, Jamie Neale, had just been found after 12 days lost in the Australian bush.
Christina Patterson: Here's why nice work pays much better
Saturday, 11 July 2009
Recruiting bankers is, apparently, as tricky as getting pandas to mate
Christina Patterson: Here's how we know our feelings are real
Thursday, 9 July 2009
I was in a monastery in Syria when I heard that Michael Jackson had died. "What a shame!" I thought. "What a sad life!" And then I went back to looking at icons. (The kind of icons that feature a Madonna and child, I mean a real Madonna and child, a Madonna-looking-good-at-1,500, not just at 50, and a child that wasn't "rescued" from the other side of the world.)
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