Talking About My Generation?
Date:
09-12-2011
Author:
Mark Sampson
Every now and again, a movie or album seems to convey something of the spirit of the age. A story is told in such a way that it...
Connecting with Culture: Arts
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Shaking Still
Date:
09-09-2011
Author:
Brian Draper
When PJ Harvey won her second Mercury Music Prize this week for her album Let England Shake - the first artist to win twice - an unsettling symmetry emerged.
Harry Potter & the Magic of Love
Date:
22-07-2011
Author:
Mark Greene
J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' novels were never primarily about magic. They were always primarily about sacrificial love...
The Godless Book
Date:
08-04-2011
Author:
Antony Billington
Ever wondered what a Bible without God would look like...? This week saw the publication of The Good Book: A Secular Bible (Bloomsbury), by A.C. Grayling, professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College, London. In an interview with The Guardian, Grayling refers to it as ‘a distillation of the best that has been thought and said by people who’ve...
In The Beginning Was... The Word
Date:
28-01-2011
Author:
Margaret Killingray
Human beings talk. The other day I was told to 'stop rabbiting on'. Rabbits don't talk, so where did that verb come from? Was it something to do with the way their noses twitch? I looked it up, and it's Cockney rhyming slang - 'rabbit and pork' equals 'talk'!
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