Those three words have gone from being somewhere in the depths of my subconscious to centre-stage for me lately in...
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Politics and culture Articles
No 30-year rule here – political leaders in the age of hyper-reality
I can't remember exactly who said it but it's bound to be some American clever clogs or other who quipped that the...
Report from Number 10 Eid reception
It may not quite have been on the scale of the mystery glamorous couple who inveigled their way into Obama's White...
The Bangladeshi elections offer reasons to be cheerful
In a week set to be dominated by the Obama inauguration, spare a thought for a long-awaited election in a different...
Pop will eat itself?
“Sex’n’drugs’n’roll,” sang cheeky chappie Ian Dury three decades ago. It’s...
The Ross/Brand furore points to a wider set of issues around youth culture
At a moment where celeb stories have preoccupied the tabloids – including Kerry Katona slurring her words on...
Rusholme Ruffians – take to your trams!
When I was doing my growing up in suburban west London, Manchester neighbourhoods like Whalley Range and Rusholme -...
Well done Davisville! Winner of the hotly contested electoral meaninglessness prize
Arriving via the old-fashioned medium of snail-mail, rather than pinging my into-box, I got an invite the other day...
Academia is no longer a sleepy backwater. The quantification ethic means that lecturers are evaluated to death
Surbiton’s premier seat of learning and place of my day-job, Kingston University doesn’t normally hit the...
Politicians ignore the school gate at their peril
In the US, political strategists uncovered the significance of the soccer moms - a category of the electorate who chat...
Bangladeshi democracy is still a work in progress
My parents left what was known as East Pakistan in the early sixties and although I was born in the UK a decade on, my...
More than just token gestures are needed to stop the BNP
Attending Unite Against Fascism's (UAF) national conference the first Saturday of March turned out to be an...