Poetry Review Summer 2012 – Croft
Thomas Ovans reviews 1948 by Andy Croft
politics
The Passion of Pierre Clementi: European cinema’s christ-devil child
The Passion of Pierre Clémenti: European cinema’s christ-devil child. by Helen Donlon. “I hung out in St. Germain. Picking up cigarettes from the street. One day, a guy came up to me and said, ‘Come with me, we need you.’
Book Review: Where Happy Little Bluebirds Fly . . . by Kay Wilson
I must have had a review copy of this little book on my desk for a fortnight before I had the courage to pick it up and start reading. I wasn’t wrong to be afraid. However I hadn’t banked on the reward for facing its contents.
PAteRnOStER sQUARE
Small tents in Paternoster Square: Thomas Ovans goes to see what’s going on at St Paul’s
Picking through the bits
Thomas Ovans uses the internet to solve mysteries round an air crash fifty years ago … and also uncovers some more recent concerns
400 Women: an exhibition
400 Women: an exhibition by Tamsyn Challenger Curator: Gemma Rolls-Bentley
Anti-Capitalism and Occupy Protests, 2011.
See USA timeline and links to updates at end of this article. When New York’s Occupy Wall Street camp was cleared by police at 1 a.m. on 15 November 2011, protesters said they would simply set up camp elsewhere. 147 people were arrested.
Economy: Broonland
Michael Davenport reviews Broonland: the last days of Gordon Brown by Christopher Harvie.
Privacy, Surveillance and ID Cards
In the debate about the use of identity cards, educationalist Duncan Prowse, a card-carrying opponent of the proposition, puts his case for London Grip.
Mandela and Mbeki’s South Africa, 2008
The Poverty of Power
Politics & Society: My May 1968
Archive 2008 Londongrip . . . Politics & Society My May 1968
Politics & Society: Yemen. Woman on a Bus: 14 scenes by Gabriele vom Brück
Archive 2008 Politics & Society: Yemen. Woman on a Bus: 14 scenes by Gabriele vom Brück
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