Christina Patterson
Christina Patterson is a writer and columnist at The Independent. A former director of the Poetry Society, and literary programmer at the Southbank Centre, she writes on culture, society, politics, books, travel and the arts.
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Wednesday, 29 June 2011
No wonder people who don’t call an argument a ‘narrative’ are beginning to think that politics has little to do with them
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Saturday, 18 June 2011
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Wednesday, 15 June 2011
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Saturday, 11 June 2011
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Christina Patterson: Sex, and the feminist's new clothes
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Perhaps the women who say they are 'new feminists' could understand that everything you wear sends out a message
Christina Patterson: The care home that could have been mistaken for Abu Ghraib
Saturday, 4 June 2011
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Christina Patterson: Prejudice and the pursuit of 'cool'
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
I don't know if it's common for people in fashion to talk this way but I do know they're not the only ones in our society to be confused over race
Christina Patterson: Why can't intelligent writers talk sense about politics?
Saturday, 28 May 2011
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Now that's what I call special
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Christina Patterson: When Andrew Marr said the word 'chemistry', Barack Obama smiled. They were talking about the Queen.
Christina Patterson: Our young men are dying in a war, and it's not in Afghanistan
Saturday, 21 May 2011
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