2008 – Sublime

Let’s Talk About The Rain

laurasan — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:01:01 +0000

Jaoui plays the part of Agathe Villanova, a well-known feminist writer who, during an unseasonably rainy summer, travels to her native Lubéron in the south of France for a political rally and to help her fragile younger sister (played by Pascale Arbillot) sort out their recently deceased mother’s belongings. A local downbeat film-maker, Michel Ronsard...

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Gold Rush

Stephen Armstrong — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Mark Britten is a quietly spoken man with a soft smile and friendly handshake. We meet in a fashionable vegetarian restaurant where he drinks chai tea and discusses the property portfolio he’s currently building up. The working capital to start this little nest egg came from a couple of years in the Middle East working...

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The Measure Of Success

laurasan — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:00:00 +0000

The criteria for measuring success There are expectations – family’s, society’s, our own – all of which change hugely over time. There are qualifications, the weight of which also change over time. But essentially there’s the dawning realisation that, for a nice middle-class girl like me with the world as my oyster and the...

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The R Word

Wayne Hemingway — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:00:00 +0000

The obscene sums of money being lavished on football teams and players by Arabs and Russians have upset much of the press, and make this small-town club supporter despair. But maybe we should be looking at this as ‘The Great Football Swindle’, whereby millions are being brought into the game that would otherwise be...

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Banking On The Sun

Jeremy Leggett — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:00:00 +0000

As North Sea gas depletes and global-warming impacts snowball, the choices the world makes about energy economics are increasingly going to look like life-and-death decisions. The more we rely on Russian gas imports for electricity, the more homeowners are likely to have the lights turned off on them if their government displeases a resurgent Kremlin.

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The Rules Of The Road

laurasan — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:00:00 +0000

I’m working from the café on the corner, which has become my regular spot on ‘working from home’ days. Going out in the world gets me going – there are other people around being busy. All of the boxes are ticked here – the music’s not too loud, most other people are working too (all...

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Fields Of Gold

laurasan — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:00:00 +0000

We have almost reached a tipping point in human history. If it hasn’t happened already, at some stage in the near future – probably in a developing country – a family will leave their rural life behind and travel to a nearby town or city seeking a brighter future. At that moment, more than half...

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The Heart Of Spain

laurasan — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Spain’s reputation for merrymaking with sand, sangria and bullfighting amid humid temperatures precedes her. Add in high-rise hotel developments that rob her of tranquil coastline and unused land for local benefit, and you have a cocktail of environmental and social issues. With the focus firmly on cheap holiday packages, rituals passed down the generations...

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Eco Town Wars

Wayne Hemingway — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Many of the new towns and settlements commissioned in the UK since the successes of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City are having to have regeneration money poured into them, so it’s no wonder that the public are being so vocal and bombarding me and other members of the Panel with what can loosely be described...

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Going Full Circle

Frances Corner — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Roland Barthes says, that ‘The wearing of an item of clothing is fundamentally an act of meaning that goes beyond modesty, ornamentation and protection. It is an act of signification and therefore a profoundly social act right at the heart of the dialectic of society.’

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