Iraq’s WMD and the Test of Reasonableness
Cross-post by Mugwump. This 9,000-word article looks at why intelligence services around the world w...
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The collective day-to-day spending of all those other departments - Business, Home Office, Justice, ...
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27 October 2012 12:00 AM
I found myself wondering the other night whether a white actor will ever play Othello again. In the near future the answer to this question is obvious, I would have thought. Only last week the American playwright Bruce Norris withdrew permission for a German company to perform his play Clybourne Park, after learning that a white actress was going to play a black character.
08 September 2012 12:00 AM
A critical view
01 September 2012 12:00 AM
Readers of fiction, Howard Jacobson argued at a literary symposium recently, ought to be able to withstand the “expression of an ugly point of view”.
11 August 2012 12:00 AM
As with quite a lot of things these days I first read about the death of Robert Hughes on Twitter. I'd love to know what the old bruiser thought of this new medium and to hear how wittily he might encapsulate its follies. I have a suspicion that he would disapprove. But in one sense it did him proud when it came to instant commemoration.
04 August 2012 12:00 AM
I visited New York and found, to my great delight, that the city really did feature large chimneys funnelling steam out of the pavement.
28 July 2012 12:00 AM
"Are you an Antonioni fan?" This question, posed conversationally just before a screening of the BFI's restored version of The Red Desert, took me a little aback the other day. I paused for a moment and said "No", an answer which, in its turn, seemed to nonplus the person who'd asked in the first place.
27 July 2012 12:00 AM
'We' asked the guests to come and courtesy demands we don't make them feel bad
21 July 2012 12:00 AM
One of the commonest of all critical vices is reviewing the work you wish you'd experienced instead of the one you actually did. But it struck me this week that there are actually two versions of this vice – opposed to each other by almost 180 degrees.
07 July 2012 12:00 AM
I don't know how you would go about quantifying these things, but last week I found myself standing in front of what must certainly be a candidate for the worst painting ever produced by a significant artist.
23 June 2012 12:00 AM
A critical view
16 June 2012 12:00 AM
My question this week: which did Hogarth enjoy drawing more – Gin Lane or Beer Street? Or to put it a different way, which panel do you think he drew first?
02 June 2012 12:00 AM
I finally "got" Wes Anderson the other day. Which is not to say that I hadn't "got" him before – in the sense of liking his work and always being willing to substitute his vision of the world for mine for an hour or two. Though I'm not very fond of fey art-house whimsy (see references to Miranda July passim), there has always been something about.
19 May 2012 12:00 AM
A critical view
12 May 2012 12:00 AM
A critical view
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