Caitlin Moran on The Voice
The Voice (BBC One) Britain’s Got Talent (ITV1) Man alive, The Voice has been a long time coming. There have been tabloid stories running on it for beyond an age — I feel like I’ve been reading about “The BBC’s hot new talent show, The Voice”, since Ted Heath was Prime Minister. Wasn’t he going [...]
Mark Steel on The Libyan Crises
Isn’t it marvellous that all these governments are determined to do “something” about Colonel Gaddafi? For example Hillary Clinton said she supported military action once the Arab League – made up of countries such as Bahrain, Syria, Yemen and Saudi Arabia – backed the air strikes. And it is encouraging that the policy of not [...]
The Lost Generation
Baby boomers took all the good jobs, the free education and the cheap housing and left their kids with nothing but the credit crunch and the bill for their pensions.
Our parents had free education, fat pensions, and second homes. We’ve got student debt and a property ladder with rotten rungs. Thanks very much, says Andrew Hankinson.
AA Gill on The Arctic Circle
Cold. We spend our lives getting out of it, away from it; our whole human history has been spent avoiding it, wrapping up against it, fighting and escaping it. Cold shoulders, cold stares; vengeance is cold, corpses are cold. Who wants to be cold? Hot is good: hot bodies, hot dinners, hot sex and holidays. [...]
Rod Liddle on Dubai
Construction halted, westerners jailed for adultery – but prostitutes do well Andrew Blair says he will pick me up from outside my sleaze-bucket of a hotel, give it 20 minutes or so, got some work to finish off. He has a job again, contracts apparently “coming out of his ears”, which is good, because until [...]
Choice by David Foster Wallace
I am 33 now and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster each day. Day to day I have to make all sorts of choices about what is good and important and fun, and then i have to live with the forfeiture of all the other options those choices [...]
David Foster Wallace
I have seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have smelled what suntan lotion smells like spread over 21000 pounds of hot flesh. I have been addressed as “Mon” in three different nations. I have watched 500 upscale Americans dance the Electric [...]
Russell Brand on Football
The incessant adjustments at the top of English football’s hierarchical pantheon means it’s currently impossible to presume supremacy.Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea hourly herald new dawns of never-ending glory then are superseded by a rival, endlessly erecting monuments to Ozymandias, King of Kings only for them to be smashed into irrelevance before the inscription has dried. “We are Manchester [...]
