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• Where the Wilde things are

  
  will-self.com — Authority: 420
  “I wonder what Monsieur Vigneron, a commissaire général de la Société des Artistes Français no less, makes of it all, assuming that the comings and goings have rendered his shade unquiet. After all, in 1903, when he was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, at the reasonable, if not advanced, age of ...
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• Real Meals: The Indian Restaurant

  
  will-self.com — Authority: 420
  “I suppose I was looking for an archetype that no longer exists. A fusty realm of red flock wallpaper and piped sitar music. I was in search of that unreal establishment, the Indian restaurant – unreal because the vast majority are in fact run by Bangladeshis; but unreal also because, just as second- and ...
  4 days ago

• John Kampfner calls for changes to libel laws

  
  The Wire — Authority: 480
  Index on Censorship, the campaign group which fights for freedom of speech, will next week publish a report aimed at convincing politicians that current libel laws must be changed.John Kampfner, the former New Statesman editor turned chief executive of the campaigning group, said he would like to see the libel laws ...
  1 week ago

• New Statesman picks Jon Bernstein as deputy editor

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  John Bernstein, former multimedia editor of Channel 4 News, succeeds Emily Mann as deputy editor of New Statesman The New Statesman has appointed Jon Bernstein, the former multimedia editor for Channel 4 News, as its deputy editor. Bernstein will join the left-of-centre political weekly magazine on 12 November, ...
  1 week ago

• Up to a point, Chief Rabbi

  
  Next Left — Authority: 660
  The Jewish Chronicle reports the Polish Chief Rabbis latest statement on Michal Kaminskis controversial political history An email sent to the think-tank Policy Exchange, Rabbi Schudrich said: "There is no doubt that Kaminski is a strong friend of the State of Israel. He himself has spoken out against ...
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• Interview and Review: John Irving’s Latest – Last Night in Twisted River

  
  Book Case — Authority: 417
  There are a bunch of heavyweight novelists bringing out books in time for the Christmas rush this year: Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Orham Pamuk and now John Irving whose latest Last Night in Twisted River gets this lukewarm reception from the NYT’s Michiko Kakutani: “Last Night in Twisted River” ...
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• Yer actual Brit-fascist, or Roderick Spodes eternal return

  
  Richard T Kelly — Authority: 118
  Aryan fascism? My take on the subject is clear to me as the nose on my face, and Ive held said view for years, even though it probably only took me about five seconds to form it - as quickly, in other words, as it takes a racist to figure out his measure of a man based on the colour of the epidermis. Still - and yes, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nick Griffin to appear on ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’?

  
  People's Republic of South Devon The Peoples Republic of South Devon — Authority: 140
  Devon blogger and New Statesman satirical poet Bill Posters (Bill Greenwell to his mum) thinks that Nick Griffin appeared on the wrong BBC programme last week. In a post on his Bill Posters site, Bill suggests that the herky-smirky BNP slug (our words, not Bill’s) should’ve bypassed Question Time for Who Do ...
  2 weeks ago

• Boris Johnson and Michael Bloomberg contrasted in New Statesman

  
  UK news: Dave Hill's London blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 135
  Sophie Elmhirst at New Statesman: One consequence of the financial crisis is the opportunity it offered London and New York to reinvent themselves. Their leaders could seek to re-create the booming, finance-dependent cities of the past decade, or imagine a new kind of city shaped by different priorities. Johnson has ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Statesman review of Steve Pincus’ 1688:the First Modern Revolution

  
  Edward Vallance — Authority: 103
  My review – over here .
  2 weeks ago

• Mobile phones: The Stockholm syndrome

  
  will-self.com — Authority: 420
  “I vividly remember my first experience of hands-free mobile phones. It must have been around 1998 in Stockholm. I arrived by night, in the teeth of a blizzard, and distinctly shaken up by having flown from London sitting between the pilots of the SAS flight. I was, shamefully, on a press junket, and this was the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shinseki knew GI Bill "simply not executable"

  
  The Common Ills — Authority: 509
  "A plan was written, very quickly put together, uh, very short timelines," declared VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to the US House Veterans Affairs Committee yesterday as to why the VA had screwed up the payments for veterans attempting to pursue higher education. "Im looking at the certificates of eligibility uh being ...
  3 weeks ago

• KFC: More cluck for your buck

  
  will-self.com — Authority: 420
  “Chicken, chicken! Every place I go there is chicken, every step I take, wishbones and drumsticks crunch beneath my soles, while the blisters in battered old chicken skin crepitate eerily. If, as I do, you live in a large city, you’re never more than a few feet away from some disjointed portion of a poultry ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Lying Game: Drum-beating for War against Iran

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 551
  The Lying Game: Drum-beating for War against Iran How we are prepared for another war of aggression New Statesman – 2009-09-20 by John Pilger In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger compares the current drum-beating for war against Iran, based on a fake “nuclear threat”, with the ...
  5 weeks ago

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