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By Alice-Azania Jarvis | Digital Digest | Monday, 10 January 2011 at 2:22 pm
A few thoughts on bankers’ bonuses
A few thoughts on bankers’ bonuses. We don’t seem to be able to make our collective minds up about whether this is a technical debate about how to make the banks safer – or a wider question about inequality and fairness.
By Sean O'Grady | Econoblog | Monday, 10 January 2011 at 1:07 pm
Wilson’s Hollywood rhapsodising
You know you’re in the presence of a serious buff when a cue from the frightful remake of Mutiny on the Bounty pops up on a programme of classic Hollywood movie music. John Wilson must be in a small minority of enthusiasts (myself included) who would have found room for estimable Bronislaw Kaper on this [...]
By Edward Seckerson | Arts | Monday, 10 January 2011 at 10:29 am
Pro-ana versus Anti Pro-ana: Battling over Twitter
No names here. I don’t wish to give him the satisfaction. An ex-Big Brother housemate who pretty much nobody has ever heard of, nevermind recognise, has displayed over the last week what can only be described as a sickening desperation for attention.
By Catherine | Notebook | Monday, 10 January 2011 at 9:21 am
Labour’s False Dawn in Oldham
Two polls carried out in Oldham East and Saddleworth were published today, too late for me fully to update my article for The Independent on Sunday, in which I predict a Labour win.
That looks pretty likely if not, perhaps, “nailed on”, as I described it, although it looks unlikely that the Liberal Democrats will come [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 9 January 2011 at 8:56 pm
John Prescott Recants Brownism
Senator Prescott* said some interesting things in a talk on a cruise on Queen Mary 2 (right). The former Deputy Prime Minister was accused by Tony Blair in A Journey of helping Gordon Brown to succeed him:
It’s not that John was ever personally disloyal – he wasn’t – but Gordon pitched his own position on [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 9 January 2011 at 1:49 pm
The Legend of “Tony Blair”
For many people, Tony Blair has now become an legendary figure, in the sense that he is based on a historical person, but he is used to mean something to make sense of people’s own worlds.
Exhibit 1.
Here’s Deborah Meaden, a judge on the BBC’s business talent show Dragons’ Den, talking about her politics to New [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 9 January 2011 at 10:38 am
Hit the Spot
Truly sophisticated entertainment:
Howard Jacobson, a thing of beauty and a joy for ever on a most unpromising subject. Genius.
Sarah Ellison, at Vanity Fair, reports on Julian Assange’s falling out with The Guardian, in the course of which he said that he “owned the information and had a financial interest in how and when it was [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 8 January 2011 at 7:15 pm
Like a Huge-Scale Skyrocket on Acid
Further to piece and package, my correspondents also want to add to the Banned List:
Skyrocket (is it supposed to distinguish from underground or underwater rockets or rockets that operate only in outer space?) Amol Rajan.
“Like x on acid [/other substance]” Soho Politico; for example, “Terry and June on acid” Mitchell Stirling.
And I need to issue [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 8 January 2011 at 5:56 pm
The Moon on a Stick and Free Ponies for All
As an addition to my comment on Martin Kettle’s article, and as a partial reply to a comment on my comment, I also commend to you Phil Collins in The Times today (pay wall) and Hopi Sen on what I still call A Blog From the Back Room.
Collins argues that Ed Miliband has made a [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 7 January 2011 at 11:05 pm
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