Tag Archive for ‘May/June 2010’
Good Hair makes a point but only tells half the story
A daughter once asked her father a question so bemusing it moved him to make a documentary about it.
“Daddy, why don’t I have good hair?”
Chris Rock, a modern stand-up legend, stands at the forefront of American comedy. He is not uninformed about the black experience and I doubt this is a question that surprised him [...]
Young people are not in education, employment or training and New Labour has done nothing about it
Val is 25 years old. His parents came from Sierra-Leone. He was raised on a rough, white, working class estate in North London. I know it’s rough because the flat-roofed pubs in the area have stained and tatty Union Jacks hanging outside – they’ve probably been hanging there since the 70s.
When I first met Val [...]
Britain’s identity crisis is business as usual
Stuart Hall once asked, ‘Who needs identity?’ It’s a good question and the immediate answer could be ‘all of us’. But identity as a need implies self-definition as a necessity.
Let’s start with the basics. There are many ways to define oneself. We can define ourselves by where we live, or have lived, otherwise known as politics [...]
Nick Clegg and the televised orange revolution
The future’s uncertain, the future’s…orange? Pol Rochester finds out what the prospect of a mix of red and yellow on the nation’s political palette means for Liberal Democrat activists on the London council election campaign trail.
Are us Brits all soft?
Stopped by snow, stranded by ash. Paul Knipe questions modern British metal and asks if the stiff upper lip has gone or if it’s merely hidden by the media.
Reflections on an election
Britain isn’t entirely broken, argues Sylvia Arthur, but the election exposes parts that need tinkering
A stitch in time
The last few years have seen a resurgence of all kinds of crafts, accompanied by a rise in groups where women gather to practise them. Lucy Graham braces herself for a public display of sociable knitting.
A Woman of Conviction? Ayaan Hirsi Ali
As Time magazine publishes its annual list of the 100 most influential people of the year, Sylvia Arthur talks to former Time 100 alum Ayaan Hirsi Ali about Islam, feminism and living in exile
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