On Being Faithfully Present in 2012
Date:
06-01-2012
Author:
Antony Billington
News junkies have been looking back at what made the headlines in 2011: the phone-hacking scandal; the Arab Spring...
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Date:
06-01-2012
Author:
Antony Billington
News junkies have been looking back at what made the headlines in 2011: the phone-hacking scandal; the Arab Spring...
Date:
25-11-2011
Author:
Jason Gardner
Civic duty has been in the spotlight this week, drawing into the debate a campaigner who has dubbed us the ‘walk on by society’...
Date:
23-09-2011
Author:
Helen Parry
To those of us who were taught other languages through traditional grammar, the dread word conjugate is the stuff of nightmares. Je suis, tu es, il est, we laboriously intoned. Far more entertaining is to play with the form and come up with sequences like I am firm; you are obstinate; she is pig-headed, or We are freedom fighters; you are guerrilla...
Date:
19-08-2011
Author:
Margaret Killingray
Two specific events have challenged me to rethink my ideas of justice. The first has been the recent riots. How do the police go about arresting people when so many are involved? Whom do they arrest and on what criteria, in the heat of the moment or on the basis of CCTV footage?
Date:
12-08-2011
Author:
Nigel Hopper
Making my way from LICC HQ to the London Palladium after work on Monday, I wondered whether Morrissey might see fit to include The Smiths' anthem 'Panic' in his set list for the evening...
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