Politics

Bad Men

Clive Stafford Smith

23 Apr 2007

POLITICAL ESSAY Clive Stafford Smith has been privy to some horrible maltreatments of human beings down the years. As a Cornishman with dual UK/US citizenship, he is seen as a saviour to the many Death Row prisoners he has tried to rescue from lethal…

Unconquered, The

Betts on two horses

29 Jan 2007

Steve Cramer Tell me a little about the origins of The Unconquered. The central character’s a girl, I understand, who is brutalised for standing up to reactionary forces?

Stop the War Scotland

Glasgow University, Sat 10 Feb

29 Jan 2007

CONFERENCE Rival MPs, senior citizens, human rights activists, students, artists, prisoners, religious leaders, journalists, aid workers, members of the Armed Forces and ordinary single mothers from Glasgow. The Stop the War Coalition has forged…

Avenge But One of My Two Eyes - DVD review

Avenge But One of My Two Eyes

29 Jan 2007

DOCUMENTARY Avi Mograbi’s tough-minded documentary on the horrors of today’s Israeli-Palestine conflict looks at events not from the point of view of Palestinian fanaticism and Israeli brutality, but chiefly from the long established fanaticism…

US Vs John Lennon, The - David Leaf profile

Profile

22 Nov 2006

Name David Leaf Born New Rochelle, New York Background Leaf began his career as a New York City based news and sports reporter, but moved to Los Angeles where he became an Emmy award-winning writer-producer-director of music culture shows for…

Tom Fool

Marcuse their words

13 Nov 2006

The idea that a compelling night of theatre can come from Herbert Marcuse’s ideas about the way in which capitalism impinges upon, and ultimately destroys the organic self, replacing it with an emotionally, socially and sexually dysfunctional reified…

Mark Kurlansky

Fight snub

11 Nov 2006

It’s the afternoon of the US midterm elections with writer and journalist Mark Kurlansky having already performed his democratic duty. As the repercussions have shown, the Republican defeat was seen as a massive vote of no-confidence in the…

Armando Ianucci

26 Jul 2006

A is for Armando Has Armando Iannucci actually been involved in every single great comedy moment on British television in the past 15 years? Rodger Evans chases down the improbable truth about A is for Armistice and Ah-ha! Memories of the…

Michelle Mone

25 Jul 2006

As part of the Politics festival, politicians will pitch their visions for the Scottish economy to three Scottish millionaire entrepreneurs, including the inventor of the Ultimo bra, Michelle Mone. David Pollock tells the uplifting story of Mone's…

George Alagiah

25 Jul 2006

It's oft been grumbled that today's television newsreaders lack the gravitas of their predecessors. With the unstoppable rise of the internet and the general dumbing down of broadcasting, the newscaster no longer presents the image of stern but…