Anna Chen – 10 March 2011, Niall Ferguson Niall Ferguson “Killer Apps” episode, Civilisation Channel 4 Review by Anna Chen 10 March 2011 ‘Dominate, dominate, dominate.’ No, not an S&M dalek, but Niall Ferguson on the telly. I lost count of how many times this word, or variations thereof, came up in the first five […]
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I can’t be sure, but I think I heard cartoonist Martin Rowson refer to the late Labour MP Tom Driberg, in one of his anecdotes last night, as a ‘fellationist’. He might have said ‘fallacionist’ but as it’s Rowson doing the telling, I’m assuming it was the former. It takes a special kind of genius
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Well, I saw this coming a mile off. I knew that Ferdinand Mount was a novelist, Sunday Times columnist, Thatcher-era Tory grandee and former TLS editor when I heard him deliver his talk on ‘Orwell and the Oligarchs’ last night at the annual George Orwell Memorial Lecture hosted by Birkbeck. However, I had no idea
Anna Chen – Wednesday, 17 November 2010 Hungry GhostsWritten and directed by Tim Luscombe10 Nov – 11 Dec 2010Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond Director/playwright Tim Luscombe sets out his agenda in the programme for Hungry Ghosts, his new play about human rights in China. “We should remember that China’s current leadership is in power only because
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I finally saw the Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) exhibition at the Tate Modern yesterday and, yep, it had more breasts than a Bernard Matthews turkey farm. It’s an interesting look at a former impressionist who predates Matisse in his use of colour and the surface plane of the canvas. Murkier than the great colourist or even
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SPOILER ALERT Having missed the curtain-raiser of the Sherlock series last week, boo-hooing over the rave reviews, and tonight’s show — The Blind Banker — promising to be more Second Coming than second episode, Loved One and I settled in to watch, even forsaking our TV pals over at Channel 4 in the Big Brother
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