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Can we trust big business?
On the eve of taking on the top job at BP, Bob D...
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Should fashion ignore or celebrate ethical values?
Even if it may not be your choice of attire at t...
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British language - we're going through changes
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How Journalism Works
How Journalism Works: another case study for my forthcoming book (forthcoming in the sense that I have no intention of writing it).
Rupert Murdoch visited Julia Gillard, prime minister of Australia, in Canberra on Thursday.
Julia Gillard wrote a by-lined article for The Sun, “Why we all must stay the course in Afghanistan”, today.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 30 October 2010 at 3:42 pm
All the hallmarks of verbiage
The weekly treat from Guy Keleny in his Errors & Omissions column in The Independent includes this item:
A story on Monday about the architect Le Corbusier included this: “But now the level of demand for such works means that even the most mundane items…are fetching thousands of pounds.” “The level of” is one of those [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 30 October 2010 at 12:24 pm
Historical fundamentalism
Quotation of the day from Jill Lepore via David Aaronovitch’s review of her book, The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History, in The Times (pay wall), in which she attacks
Historical fundamentalism, which is to history what astrology is to astronomy, what alchemy is to chemistry, what creationism is [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 30 October 2010 at 10:40 am
Can we trust big business?
On the eve of taking on the top job at BP, Bob Dudley, the new chief executive, emphasised his priority as being the introduction of extensive measures to ramp up safety in exploration projects and refineries.
By Para Mullan | Battle of Ideas, Eagle Eye | Saturday, 30 October 2010 at 6:00 am
Origins of a tasteless metaphor
Polly Toynbee has apologised for using the phrase “final solution” to describe the coalition’s welfare benefits cuts. But she stood by the use of “social cleansing” to describe the possible movement, as a result of housing benefit changes, of claimants from expensive parts of cities to the banlieues on the outskirts.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 29 October 2010 at 6:31 pm
Why Doha turned out to be a lot more than we bargained for
There is an ever-flowing constant in this particular decade of women’s tennis – fans and philosophers discussing the fact that the game is weaker as a result of the Williams sisters, that, by their dominance, the sisters have prevented a healthy state of competition in the female form of the game. And yet, when the sisters are injured, or awol, or just don’t feel like it, their absence is bemoaned, denounced, and renders any event that happens without them effectively meaningless.
By Alexandra Willis | Sport | Friday, 29 October 2010 at 5:35 pm
Has Belfast film-maker found time travel evidence?
Number 411 of my Questions to Which the Answer is No is asked by BBC Northern Ireland. Something about Charlie Chaplin using a mobile phone.
Next.
Thanks to Benjamin.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 29 October 2010 at 10:36 am
Games news in brief: How to enter our ‘Legendary’ Halo: Reach competition; When games go bump in the night; No I in BAFTA as social gaming awarded
A weekly look at the videogames stories making the headlines, this week featuring: The Independent’s very own Halo: Reach “Legendary” edition giveaway; a look at the games to be playing this Halloween and how BAFTA is set to award social gaming.
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Friday, 29 October 2010 at 9:00 am
Should fashion ignore or celebrate ethical values?
Even if it may not be your choice of attire at this year’s office Xmas party, style icon Lady Gaga’s notorious decision to wear a “meat dress” last month certainly made her stand out from the fashion herd at the VMAs. It offered a momentary break from, possibly even a reaction to, an ethical aesthetic vogue currently dominating – some say suffocating – fashion innovation.
By Tessa Mayes | Battle of Ideas, Eagle Eye | Friday, 29 October 2010 at 6:00 am
A revealing speech by Sir John Sawers
MI6 didn’t torture Binyam Mohamed but they did, allegedly, feed questions to his torturers. Sir John Sawers says MI6 will do nothing that “will lead to torture taking place”. But that does not preclude extracting information if the abuse was going to happen anyway.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 8:39 pm
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