Lebanese protestors demand secularism. Thai PM rejects protestors’ offer as counter-movements gain strength. Clashes in south Sudan kill 58. Al-Qaeda confirms death of top leaders. Iran tests new missiles in annual military manoeuvers. All this and more, in today's security update.
HEALTH WARNING This is an article from the Guardian, Friday 26 Aug 1988 (very slightly corrected) published as part of an archive of essays on Henry Moore, including from Art
An archive article published in Art Monthly in November 1986)
This is a review article published in the Time Literary Supplement of 5-11 August 1988
History teaching has fallen victim to politics in Russia. Educational standards are falling and children are not being taught to think. They learn that Russia is great, but not the reasons why. Could this be because it is easier to run a nation of naïve, illiterate people who do not know their his
If you wanted to raise the issue of water privatisation and its effect on the human right to water, you might turn to animation. Particularly if you needed to emphasise the role we all play as consumers in the water crisis
Ron Jones responds to criticism of the Welsh broadcaster S4C with an analysis of its prospects
The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski’s latest movie is a well-crafted and well-acted thriller adapted from a book by Robert Harris, with a political twist that might even give Gordon Brown an extra shiver on the eve of the general election
The Liberal Democrat leader wrote this article for the Guardian in 2002. It is now being used against him by a hysterically melancholic tabloid press in Britain. We are proud to republish it.
Sunder Katwala calls for the BBC to broadcast the second general election debate
This handy summary of the today's newspaper coverage from Conservative Home' reported straightforwardly as: "Fleet Street mounts an operation to burst Clegg's bubble"