Soul Bird
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Some Place Simple is an unusual album. It contains only a handful of new songs; the rest are new versions of songs from her previous albums Quixotic (2003) and The…
Art & Culture
Mathieu And The Machine
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Philosopher come anthropologist come artist come fill-in-the blank – yes, Mathieu really does seem capable of just about anything – has quite literally revolutionised the design market. The youngest of…
Music Review 21
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Villagers, Becoming a Jackal (Domino)Twenty years after the innovative peak of the 1980s, the decade that saw bands ranging from U2 to Stump, from Microdisney to That Petrol Emotion, the…
The Value of Nothing
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That the result of banking on the omniscience of the free market is not only the state that we are currently in, but that we now live in a society…
The Plundered Planet
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In The Plundered Planet, Collier attempts to reconcile economic and environmental interests by showing that they are not competing, but mutually dependent. With the bottom billion wary of environmentalism, cooperation…
Ill Fares The Land
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Judt argues that the pursuit of materialism has taken the place of a shared sense of common purpose, pointing out that we need a new kind of discourse, engaging in…
Burning Ice
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In 2008 a team of 45 scientists, artists, musicians, architects and performers set sail on a voyage into the Arctic with Cape Farewell, an organisation dedicated to raising awareness of…
The Spirit Level
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However, The Spirit Level, the collaborative result of over fifty years of research by Professors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, emphatically does not fall into that trap. The authors’ extensive…
Music Review 20
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Peter Gabriel, Scratch My Back (EMI)For decades the concept album, alongside patchouli, kaftans and beedis, has been left to rot in a drawer marked ‘1960s aberrations’. Of late, together with…
