Archive for November, 2010

Bart Simpson, Gordon Gekko’s greed and collateralised debt: ‘See you sucker!’

By Keith Richmond /Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester
Penguin, £9.99

Rupa Huq

By Rupa Huq /Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

View from the margins and reasons for Labour errors

Obama’s sun sets in the sunshine state

By Dave Roberts /Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

Dave Roberts, who worked for the Democrats in Florida, gives his
verdict on America’s 2010 mid-term elections

Spectacular victory after a dreadful defeat or just Victorian spin?

By Nigel Nelson /Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

Zulu Rising: The Epic Story of iSandlwana and Rorke’s Drift by Ian Knight
Sidgwick & Jackson, £20

I could be the catalyst that sparks the revolution I could be an inmate in a long term institution What a waste! What a waste…

By Stephen Pound /Monday, November 15th, 2010

Trio: Inside the Blair, Brown, Mandelson Project by Giles Radice
IB Tauris, £20

Kevin Maguire

By Kevin Maguire /Monday, November 15th, 2010

Unions helped to make Ed, he must not help to break them

The cuts conundrum

By Peter Bolton /Monday, November 15th, 2010

Peter Bolton argues the coalition’s approach to the deficit has less support than its cheerleaders would have us believe

Masculinity in crisis – and they mean it, man

By Aleks Sierz /Monday, November 15th, 2010

Red Bud
Royal Court, London

Still good reasons to be mad about the ad men

By Stephen Kelly /Sunday, November 14th, 2010

Mad Men
BBC 4

Sowing seeds to provoke contemplation

By Emmanuel Cooper /Sunday, November 14th, 2010

The Unilever Series –
Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds
Tate Modern, London