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The coach, the boxer and the gorilla
As a post I wrote on Monday suggests, last week�...
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Is President Obama actually a harbinger of the Apocalypse?
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Are we really this stupid?
I was extremely concerned (not to mention depres...
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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
Daniel Craig’s new job leaves James Bond in limbo
Today’s announcement that Daniel Craig is to star in a Hollywood film of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is great news for fans of Stieg Larsson. But it represents a rather less exciting development for those who prefer Craig’s other alter ego, James Bond.
By Guy Adams | Arts, The Foreign Desk | Tuesday, 27 July 2010 at 7:18 am
Calories Schmalories – Ignorance is Bliss
The trial that fell flat on its arse: the FSA’s attempt to raise awareness of the calorific nastiness present in eateries throughout the UK. A year on from it’s call for widespread trials which called for cafes and restaurants to clearly display calorie counts on all menus, it was revealed today that plans to extend [...]
Now we will take no lessons
Hear ye, hear ye. Two more additions to the Banned List.
35. Headlines beginning “Now”, as in “Now You Pay for Prison Parties.”
36. “We will take no lessons on x from y.” Tedious bit of parliamentary polyfilla. Jeremy Hunt’s first answer at Culture, Media and Sport questions today began, “I can confirm that we have no [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 26 July 2010 at 10:17 pm
The 1-2-3-4 Festival: Sinister bowler haircuts and other assorted oddities
It was the 1-2-3-4 Festival in Shoreditch Park on Saturday. A unique event in that it appeared that more people held VIP passes than the standard issue tickets. As someone who doesn’t like to miss out, I duly grabbed one for myself.
The event was about as Shoreditch as you could get as the one-upmanship of [...]
By Simon Rice | Notebook | Monday, 26 July 2010 at 7:39 pm
Can Labour afford to back the Ed Milibandwagon?
Notwithstanding the previous post, Max Atkinson, the rhetoric guru, asks number 376 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No, in a thoughtful analysis of the Labour leadership contest, in which he rephrases his headline question thus:
Now that Ed Miliband has won the backing of the big unions, whose support Ed Balls [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 26 July 2010 at 6:50 pm
Ed Miliband’s public email
Earlier today I wondered what was in Ed Miliband’s “private email” to members of the Unite political committee, which decided on Saturday that the union should nominate him for the Labour leadership. Well, I have now obtained a copy of the said document.
According to the Mail on Sunday, but since taken down, Ed Balls’s “backers [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 26 July 2010 at 6:32 pm
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