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The Liberal Democrat outlook is not so bleak
If our commentariat were not so pickled in two-p...
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Nashville: My new spiritual home
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Daniel Craig’s new job leaves James Bond in limbo
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How to Be Prime Minister
That’s the parliamentary season done. Time to tidy up some of the stuff on my desktop. Never found time to comment on Tony Blair’s master class in How to Be Prime Minister at the Institute for Government last month.
A transcript, for which I am grateful to OutSec, is here.
There were a few polished aphorisms, which [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 27 July 2010 at 9:19 pm
How the internet can “dig down into the archives to understand”
C. W. Anderson notes on the Nieman Journalism Lab blog:
“To understand the world of Wikileaks, and what it means for journalism, you have to understand the world of geeks, of hackers, and of techno-dissidents.”
It’s important to keep that in mind when reading, for example, Archie Bland’s very readable demolition of The Telegraph’s Will Heaven’s [...]
By Jack Riley | Notebook | Tuesday, 27 July 2010 at 5:53 pm
Of course Julian Assange has an agenda. He has never claimed otherwise
It’s daft to give the Wikileaks founder a hard time for betraying principles of objectivity. Here’s why.
By Archie Bland | Eagle Eye, The Foreign Desk | Tuesday, 27 July 2010 at 2:18 pm
The Liberal Democrat outlook is not so bleak
If our commentariat were not so pickled in two-party thinking they would have given Clegg some credit formaking the right strategic choice for his party.
Must watch: Maybe the greatest goal celebration of all time
After writing a particularly fine article I’ve been known to run around the office, giving high-fives to fellow journalists before performing a forwards roll into the editor’s office and firing off imaginary guns ala Robbie Keane.
In short, we love a good celebration here at The Indy.
So when we saw this video on YouTube we had [...]
By Simon Rice | Sport | Tuesday, 27 July 2010 at 1:18 pm
Nashville: My new spiritual home
Last time I went to Nashville it was in the 1980s and I couldn’t see any way past the Randy Travis tea towels and the Dollywood-ification of the place. I never found the heart of the town and the experience lasted less than two days and was nearly enough to put me off my then [...]
By Simmy Richman | Arts | Tuesday, 27 July 2010 at 12:45 pm
Health Diary: Finish your cornflakes…
“I’m hoping Dennis Hopper dying will do for men, what Jade did for woman” she said, clearly not bothered in the slightest that I was ‘ready’ for her. “Everyone’s as nervous as hell, like the residents in New York after the 9/11 attacks” she continued.
By Chris Geiger | Notebook | Tuesday, 27 July 2010 at 12:42 pm
Japanese Judo champ joins the Olympic countdown
It’s two years until the start of the 2012 London Olympics. Various events are taking place today – American runner Michael Johnson will be running around the half-built Olympic Stadium and Sir Chris Hoy will be making use of the Velodrome.
Meanwhile the Foreign Office has begun a video series in which Olympic stars from abroad, [...]
By Simon Rice | Sport | Tuesday, 27 July 2010 at 12:37 pm
Evil and its returns
Of the many confidences broken by Peter Mandelson in his The Third Man, perhaps the most striking (not that I have finished reading it yet) is this quotation from a note from Cherie Blair after his first resignation, in which “the engine of my destruction was Gordon Brown”, from the Cabinet in December 1998:
I have [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 27 July 2010 at 11:38 am
Alan Lomax Archive lands on YouTube
For a PBS TV series folklorist Alan Lomax travelled through the south and southwest of America shooting 400 hours of footage of people performing blues and folk songs. Over the weekend a YouTube channel was launched for this material.
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Tuesday, 27 July 2010 at 10:27 am
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