Alice O'Keeffe
Articles by Alice O'Keeffe
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UK Politics
Their right to liberty
- 18 December 2008
The NS campaign against holding children in immigration detention centres has gathered powerful support, but reform is still needed
Music
Mouth and trousers
- 27 November 2008
- 1 comment
With or without the high heels, this show is hypnotic and hilarious
Eddie Izzard: Stripped
Lyric Theatre, London W1
Books
The making of a magician
- 27 November 2008
Gabriel García Márquez: a Life
Gerald Martin
Bloomsbury, 688pp, £25
UK Politics
We will get there
- 20 November 2008
The New Statesman’s campaign to free children locked up in UK detention centres has made progress
Art
Keeping it real
- 30 October 2008
- 1 comment
Steve Lazarides is Banksy's gallerist and the man responsible for the boom in street art. He hasn't sold out - he's just adapted
Arts & Culture
Queen of outrage
- 23 October 2008
America's favourite taboo-breaker is sharper on gender than she is on race
Sarah Silverman
Hammersmith Apollo, London W6
UK Politics
One step forward . . .
- 25 September 2008
- 1 comment
The government has announced a new commitment to equal rights for asylum-seeking children. Now they must put it into practice
Theatre
Treasure in them there hills
- 25 September 2008
A remarkable theatre company has created high art in an impoverished, conflict-battered Rio favela
No Place for Children campaign
- 04 September 2008
The New Statesman No Place for Children campaign calls on the government to end the detention of children for immigration reasons
Society
One step forward . . .
- 17 July 2008
- 1 comment
In opinion polls Uribe regularly gets upwards of 80 per cent support. Since the dark days the political landscape has changed completely, writes Alice O'Keeffe
