Wednesday 9 July 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

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Style and Travel

Geordie Greig travels to an obscure Malaysian island to fulfil a child’s dream

Moving pictures

Moving pictures

John Torode watches his movie poster collection gain value

Celebrity haunts

Celebrity haunts

Lindy Woodhead feels the spirit in Jamaica

Scents and sensibility

Scents and sensibility

Juliet Nicolson says new super-smells make the perfect gift

Eyes wide shut

Eyes wide shut

James Delingpole meets a lifestyle guru who gets results

Arts

A world elsewhere

A world elsewhere

Henrietta Bredin visits Oslo's new opera house and finds it impressive, both inside and out

Distinctly lacklustre

Distinctly lacklustre

Radical light: Italy's Divisionist Painters 1891-1910
National Gallery, until 7 September, Sponsoered by Credit Suisse

Books

Getting to know the General

Carey Schofield reviews Mohammed Hanif's new book

All you need to know about Wales

Byron Rogers reviews an encyclopedia of Wales

Style & Travel

Autograph hound

Autograph hound

Bill Cashmore goes on a trip down memory lane

Midas touch

Roderick Gilchrist enjoys Venice

In this week's issue

A very English coup — and the end of our national church

On the eve of the General Synod and the Lambeth Conference, Theo Hobson says that the sleeping giant of evangelical and orthodox Anglicanism has been awoken by liberal agitation and Rowan Williams’s failed leadership. The church is damaged beyond repair

Theo Hobson

Brown’s security strategy is the worst of all worlds

It’s draconian, expensive and ineffective, says David Davis. All the evidence shows that the Prime Minister is eroding our civil liberties pointlessly

David Davis

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