Saturday 6 September 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency suggests


The Week

The Spectator on intervening in Zimbabwe

Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody

Tamzin Lightwater's unique take on the week

Mind Your Language

Dot Wordsworth continues her look at BBC booklets on pronunciation published in the 1930s

Make your excuses and go

The Spectator on the difficulties engulfing the Government

Diary

Tony Parsons visits Tokyo

Arts

Marriage lines

Marriage lines

The Archers Omnibus (BBC Radio 4); Sunday Worship (BBC Radio 4); The Reunion (BBC Radio 4)

Creative differences

Marcus Berkmann on Walter Becker's new album

Books

Life and Letters

Breaking the rules

Brave new writing

Brave new writing

Fifty years ago, Alan Sillitoe’s first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, changed the history of English fiction. Richard Bradford explains how.

Style & Travel

Meet the real Donna

Meet the real Donna

Charlotte Metcalf finds a friend on the Mamma Mia! island

The skinny on sportswear

The skinny on sportswear

James Sherwood seeks suitable jogging attire

In this week's issue

Labour’s punishment freaks are hounding honest citizens

Ross Clark says that far from keeping our streets safer or cleaner, the government’s new force of amateur policemen are ignoring the worst offenders and pursuing law-abiding innocents instead

Ross Clark

‘Whoever killed Benazir wants to kill me’

Christina Lamb interviews the husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari, who hopes to be named President of Pakistan this Saturday

Christina Lamb

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