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Friday 3 September 2010 Home
Rob Lyons
The Tarantino of food writing
Still raucous, hedonistic and BS-intolerant, author and celeb chef Anthony Bourdain serves up more scrumptious food stories in Medium Raw.
David Bowden
Farewell The Bill, south London will miss you
By introducing weekly gangland killings and bent coppers, The Bill thought it could become Croydon’s answer to The Wire.

Duleep Allirajah
A Pitbull signs up
for the Eagles

I know he’s 37 and his best days are behind him, but I’m stupidly excited that Palace have signed Edgar Davids.

Thursday 2 September 2010
Brendan O’Neill
Never mind the leadership contest — look at me!
That Blair has published his bitchy memoirs at a time when Labour is picking a new leader speaks volumes about the end of grown-up politics.

Tim Black
The US withdrew from Iraq a long time ago
The removal of US troops isn’t that significant. Politically and emotionally, Washington left Iraq some time around 2004.

Rob Lyons
What a misanthropic bunch of stunts
Greenpeace’s latest stunt in the Arctic suggests that what it really fears is human exploration and expansion.

Wednesday 1 September 2010
Mick Hume
Cheating? To be fair, it is cricket
There is nothing new nor alien about cricketing scandals; the sport of Empire has always been torn between high morals and low tactics.

Tim Black
This is a story of resilience, not despair
Why was the mental-health lobby so quick to diagnose depression in the 33 Chilean miners trapped underground?

Graham Barnfield
Not showing at a cinema near you
The BBFC’s effective banning of A Serbian Film shows that we still aren’t trusted to judge movies for ourselves.

Tuesday 31 August 2010
Brendan O’Neill
David vs Ed? It’s the end of politics as we knew it
Labour should be charged under the Trade Descriptions Act for describing this spat between flat-packed oligarchs as a ‘leadership contest’.

Nathalie Rothschild
Are Pentagon-paid goons crushing Wikileaks?
The idea that the molestation charges against Julian Assange were a dirty tricks campaign looks like pure political fantasy.

Ethan Epstein
First the flood, then the condescension
Five years after Hurricane Katrina struck, New Orleans now finds itself drowning under a deluge of liberal pity.

Friday 27 August 2010
Issue No.37
August 2010

Me human, you chimp
There is nothing remotely human about primates
by Tim Black

Welcome to August’s review of books
Editor's note
Could anybody bend it like Beckham?
by Mick Hume
Who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? Shakespeare did
by Francis Phillips
Mandelson’s comic tragedy
The return of China-bashing
The Tarantino of food writing
Playing the genocide card
Is it immoral to drive?
Thursday 26 August 2010
Brendan O’Neill
Après le deluge, the ghoulish opportunists
Everyone from anti-terror crusaders to end-of-the-world greens is exploiting the Pakistani floods to revive their own flagging careers.

Viral Shah
The Sex Pistols of the German football league
With anarchists and prostitutes among their smoking and drinking fans, FC St Pauli are the punk rockers of footie.

Patrick West
A televised escape from economic woe
A blend of Miss World and Mastermind, the Rose of Tralee’s appeal defies the snobbery of the Dublin 4 set.


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