Concluding her article in today’s Guardian – What\’s the nicest thing a man can do for a woman? - Suzanne Moore writes – “Anyway, what does a feminist man look like? How about Kurt Cobain, Peter Tatchell, Baaba Maal, Antony Hegarty, Bill Bailey, David Steele and Barak Obama as my team’s starter for 10 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Guardian’
This Is What A Feminist Looks Like
Posted in Cricket, Media, Newspapers, Sport, This England, tagged Brian Close, Cricket, David Steele, Feminism, Guardian, Suzanne Moore on February 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A Bus Queue in Northampton
Posted in Arts, Media, Music, Newspapers, Politics, This England, tagged Decca Aitkenhead, Guardian, Liberal Democrats, Record Labels, Wombles on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From Decca Aitkenhead in today’s Drainaug – “If all the Lib Dem banners in Liverpool this week had been stripped away, I wonder how long it would have taken a visitor to work out why so many people were there, or who they might be. A very long time, would be my guess. I kept studying [...]
Amused by its presumption 2
Posted in Drink, Media, Newspapers, tagged Guardian, Victoria Moore, Wine on July 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Some more highlights from this week’s column from the Guardian’s wine correspondent, Victoria Moore, who, I feel, is shaping up to become one of our leading humourists. “This summer, my freezer has never been without a good stock of ice cubes filled with leftover Moka espresso” - (well, whose has?). The Blind River Sauvignon Blanc 2009 (£12.99) [...]
Born Yesterday, forgotten today : Judy Holliday
Posted in Arts, Films, Media, Newspapers, Politics, Smoking, tagged Born Yesterday, Comedies, Films, George Cukor, Guardian, Judy Holliday, McCarthyism, Tanya Gold on February 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Due to a slight hiccup in East Midlands Trains’ normally reliable services today (and yesterday, and the day before and the day before that) * I’ve had even more time than usual to spend studying my MG, and I have to report that there was an article in it today that frankly got my goat. It was [...]
Nancy Banks-Smith
Posted in Arts, Media, Newspapers, Radio, TV, tagged Birthdays, Guardian, Nancy Banks-Smith, Newspapers on February 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A brief – and belated – doff of the hat to the woman I’d say has consistently been the best writer for the national press for more years than I care to remember* : a happy 80th birthday to Nancy Banks-Smith, TV and sometimes Radio critic for the Guardian. I was pleased to see that the dear old [...]
The Uses of Literacy-ah
Posted in Arts, Music, Newspapers, Pubs, This England, tagged Guardian, Lynsey Hansley, Mark E. Smith, Music, Richard Hoggart, The Fall, Uses of literacy, Working Mens' Clubs on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A rewarding piece, I thought, in today’s Guardian, by Lynsey Hanley, about the decline of Working Mens’ Clubs, and the style of amateur singer to whom they used to provide a home (it’s here – Tonight\’s special turn ). In it, she quotes from Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy : “Hoggart termed it the [...]
These foolish things remind me of … the Gestapo
Posted in History, Media, Memory, Newspapers, Politics, tagged Gestapo, Guardian, Norman Gash, Nostalgia, Obituaries, Sir Robert Peel on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From today’s obituary in The Guardian of Tory historian and Peel* biographer Norman Gash – Norman Gash - “He must have been one of the last British people to have attended a Hitler rally. When the second world war came, he was working in University College London under Sir John Neale. Gash joined the army and [...]
England’s new football kit – featuring Kim Cattrall, Wayne Rooney, David Beckham, Marina Hyde and – most importantly – Alf Common
Posted in Clothes, Football, History, Media, Newspapers, Sport, tagged Alf Common, Brylcreem, Clothes, David Beckham, Football, Guardian, Kim Cattrall, Marina Hyde, Wayne Rooney on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While I’m on a sartorial tip, have been watching England v the Netherlands at association football on the television this evening (I’m not really in the mood for an outbreak of weeping, so can’t quite face Kim Cattrall on Who Do You think You Are?). Pleased to see that young Rooney has resorted to the use [...]
Yours truly, Angry Mob – or Mr. Pooter joins the commentariat (reprinted)
Posted in Blogging, Media, Newspapers, Politics, This England, tagged Alexander Chancellor, Blogging, Comment is Free, English politics, Guardian, Mobs, Newspapers, Polly Toynbee, Stephen Fry, Twitter on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s hot topic in the quality prints and elsewhere seems to have been mobs – hashmobs, flashmobs, hatemobs, lynch mobs. You can take your pick of the articles, though Dominic Sandbrook, writing in the New Statesman, offered a historical perspective - Mob rule. I threw in my two pennorth last week – Gately, Moir & Fry. (I [...]
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