Let’s Talk About The Rain
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Jaoui plays the part of Agathe Villanova, a well-known feminist writer who, during an unseasonably rainy summer, travels to her native Lubéron in the south of France for a political…
2008
Gold Rush
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Mark Britten is a quietly spoken man with a soft smile and friendly handshake. We meet in a fashionable vegetarian restaurant where he drinks chai tea and discusses the property…
The Measure Of Success
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The criteria for measuring success There are expectations – family’s, society’s, our own – all of which change hugely over time. There are qualifications, the weight of which also…
The R Word
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The obscene sums of money being lavished on football teams and players by Arabs and Russians have upset much of the press, and make this small-town club supporter despair.…
Banking On The Sun
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As North Sea gas depletes and global-warming impacts snowball, the choices the world makes about energy economics are increasingly going to look like life-and-death decisions. The more we rely on Russian gas imports for electricity, the more homeowners are likely to have the lights turned off on them if their government displeases a resurgent Kremlin.
Eco Town Wars
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Many of the new towns and settlements commissioned in the UK since the successes of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City are having to have regeneration money poured into them, so…
Going Full Circle
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Roland Barthes says, that ‘The wearing of an item of clothing is fundamentally an act of meaning that goes beyond modesty, ornamentation and protection. It is an act of signification and therefore a profoundly social act right at the heart of the dialectic of society.’
The Rules Of The Road
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I’m working from the café on the corner, which has become my regular spot on ‘working from home’ days. Going out in the world gets me going – there are…
Fields Of Gold
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We have almost reached a tipping point in human history. If it hasn’t happened already, at some stage in the near future – probably in a developing country – a…
