TORTOISE ON A LEAD

In 19th-century Paris, flaneurs - or wanderers - would stroll through the city streets with a tortoise on a lead. It helped them slow down, take stock and appreciate. Journalism today could do with a tortoise.

Tuesday, 19 February 2008

REVIEW - The Dybbuk at the King's Head Theatre

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Sickly blue light illuminates a spitting, crying, salivating face in the area behind the audience, before the scene shifts to the convention...
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008

Running free - the urban craze of parkour takes off

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A few years ago, parkour was an underground training method practised by a handful of teenagers. Now it ia a worldwide phenomenon that featu...
Monday, 28 January 2008

IN MY WORDS - Oxford Union president Luke Tryl

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When Oxford Union president Luke Tryl, 20, invited BNP leader Nick Griffin and Holocaust denier David Irving to debate at a free speech foru...
Tuesday, 22 January 2008

Bending the rules - a gay man in a lads' mag world

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A doctor and Oxford graduate became the first openly gay columnist for top lads' mag FHM. I talked to him about how it felt to stick out...
Monday, 14 January 2008

An ideal journalist? Revealing confidential sources

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In Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband (1895), the disgraced MP Sir Robert Chiltern tells his friend Lord Arthur Goring: “Weak? Do you really thi...
Thursday, 1 November 2007

The End of the Reporter?

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David Leigh, Guardian assistant editor, gave the Anthony Sampson Chair in Reporting Inaugural Lecture on this subject tonight. The lecture w...
Wednesday, 10 October 2007

Women Writing War

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The Women Writing War debate at the Guardian Newsroom last night got off to a bad start. Anne Sebba, biographer and former Reuters foreign c...
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