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How to live a braver, wilder life

  • Rebecca Lenkiewicz
  • 04 September 2008

Having a production on always feels as if you've been in a boxing match. I'm beginning to care less about the critics' jabs, which implies I'm entering a state of either Zen or monomania

Carnival, the best time of the year

  • Alan Scholefield
  • 28 August 2008

It feels like we're obeying the command of some god who hovers over North Kensington and issues a bacchanalian order every August bank holiday. Don't work. Party

An idyllic setting for some extreme karaoke

  • Phill Jupitus
  • 21 August 2008

One of the more ludicrous modern clichés is that comedy is "the new rock'n'roll". But in my experience, if you put on a comedian at a rock gig, the crowd tend to react rather badly

From war zones to the perils of Old Street

  • Andrew Mueller
  • 14 August 2008

It's a shame that we never get to read headlines such as: "Essentially decent sort does his best, means no harm to anyone" - which is to say, stories about most people, in most places

Up close and personal

  • Paulo Coelho
  • 07 August 2008
  • 7 comments

Despite my being in this remote region, I wasn't alone: people were travelling with me through the words of my blog

The Tolpuddle Martyrs get the last laugh

  • Mark Steel
  • 31 July 2008
  • 7 comments

The front row of the socialist choir began: "There's a rumble in the air tonight," while the back row sang, "Oh no, it's an imperialist bomb"

Latitude, Leonard and the mob mind

  • Nikita Lalwani
  • 24 July 2008
  • 2 comments

"Get out of my country!" shouts a young man. A tidal swell of assent and applause fills the comedy tent. How quickly things turn

Less Demos, more lilo

  • Catherine Fieschi
  • 17 July 2008
  • 5 comments

Does harbouring a secret longing for an inept successor, possibly unpleasant, maybe even scarily unattractive, make me a terrible person?

Daily bread

  • Roger Alton
  • 10 July 2008
  • 2 comments

I'm a huge admirer of Tony Blair but I come in for a good ticking-off from colleagues for a headline on a story about his property woes

A short walk in Palestine - or is it Eretz Yisrael?

  • Raja Shehadeh
  • 03 July 2008
  • 4 comments

We stopped to eat our picnic breakfast of Nabulsi goat's cheese and tomatoes - which we had to eat whole because I could not risk being stopped on the road carrying a Swiss army knife

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