Tyrannosaur
Director: Paddy Considine
Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Director: Morgan Spurlock
Footloose
Director: Craig Brewer
Archive for October, 2011
Monster study of violence and redemption
By Patrick Mulcahy /Sunday, October 16th, 2011Spirited mix of psychology and exploitation
By Aleks Sierz /Sunday, October 16th, 2011The Veil
National Theatre, London
Winds of change in southern Africa
By David Winnick /Sunday, October 16th, 2011Sharpeville by Tom Lodge
Oxford University Press, £20
Ethical foreign policy meets political gravity
By David Mathieson /Sunday, October 16th, 2011Why Kosovo Still Matters
by Denis MacShane
Haus Publishing, £8.99
Playing snakes and ladders: the sneaky little lies of free market economics
By Glyn Ford /Sunday, October 16th, 2011Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
by Ha-Joon Chang
Anthem Press, £14.99
Candle in the wind for the health service while Glover gives the Tories a hand
By Ian Aitken /Saturday, October 15th, 2011I sometimes like to imagine that the great and the good in the Labour Party actually read what I write, and the sacking of John Healey as the party’s spokesman on the National Health Service led me to think that perhaps they do. I have more than once suggested in this column that Healey was [...]
Out of touch Government and do nothing ministers
By Ed Balls /Friday, October 14th, 2011The Tory austerity plan is hurting but not working
Emporer’s clothes go missing as Ed scores over Cameron and Clegg
By Kevin Maguire /Friday, October 14th, 2011Ed Miliband scored one triumph over David Cameron and Nick Clegg during the conference season: the Labour leader spoke to a full hall. To go to all the autumn political jamborees is a dirty job, but somebody has to do it – and that person is me. Both Cameron and Clegg delivered perorations to auditoriums [...]
As Hu prepares to leave Chinese presidency, he holds out an olive branch to Taiwan
By Bernard Purcell /Friday, October 14th, 2011China’s President Hu Jintao, who is due to hand over to a successor next year, held out the possibility of extending the “two systems, one rule” dispensation applied to Hong Kong to Taiwan as he urged Taipei to work more closely with Beijing towards eventual reunification.
Putin proposes a new federation that would resemble the old Soviet Union
By Marcus Papadopoulos /Friday, October 14th, 2011Vladimir Putin, Russia’s powerful Prime Minister, has proposed the creation of a new union between Russia and other post-Soviet states which could lead to a new federation resembling the old Soviet Union. Mr Putin, who is set to regain the Russian presidency next year, which would see him overtake Joseph Stalin as Russia’s longest serving [...]