1st February 2010
Lucia Hodgson discusses the prospects of an economic revival with the Liberal Democrat’s deputy leader and Treasury spokesperson Official figures released this week show that the UK started to clamber its way out of a tiresome, messy recession at the end of 2009. But it is clear that Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson, ...
1st February 2010
James Maxwell talks to Johann Hari, The Independent’s award-winning columnist, about life on the front-line of political journalism In six years as a political commentator and columnist at The Independent, Johann Hari has assembled a list of enemies the length of the Thames. Peter Mandelson, the Dalai Lama, George Galloway, Daniel Craig, Hizb Ut Tahrir, ...
1st February 2010
Leon Weber As we slowly but surely approach the 23rd James Bond movie, I feel like I have actually been part of this monumental franchise. Unlike with the Die Hard, Alien or Rocky series, I was able to see a significant number of the Bond films on the big screen despite my tender age. I ...
1st February 2010
Tom Bonnick I never imagined that one day I’d be reading a book with “positive thinking” in the title — save for some unlikely gun-pointing-head scenario — and least of all that I would, a week later, be singing its praises. And yet, here we are. Barbara Ehrenreich has achieved both of these feats in ...
1st February 2010
Tom Bonnick Whatever terrible environmental or political apocalpyse this new decade — the teens? the tensies? I prefer, in the spirit of cultural critic Jody Rosen’s designation of the last decade as “the Beyonces”, to think of them as the Lady Gagas — will herald in, we will still always be able to find solid ...
