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Tom Sutcliffe: Some people can live without the internet
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Social Studies: When I asked him whether he had email he replied, in affable tones, "Don't be daft"
Tom Sutcliffe: Throw the book at clichéd blurbs
Friday, 9 July 2010
People have been having fun at the expense of a novelist called Nicole Krauss, who recently supplied a jacket blurb for the proof copy of David Grossman's latest novel and – by some distance – overshot the target all collegiate blurb writers must aim for, which is to deliver a sense of plausible enthusiasm while staying well on this side of outright hysteria. "Very rarely, a few times in a lifetime," Ms Krauss began, "you open a book and when you close it again nothing can ever be the same." And after that she took the brakes off: not only is David Grossman possibly the "most gifted writer I've ever read" (this may have come as a blow to Ms Krauss's husband Jonathan Safran Foer) but he is – in startlingly direct fashion – what Stalin called an engineer of the human soul. "To read it," Ms Krauss said of his book, "is to have yourself taken apart, undone, touched at the place of your own essence; it is to be turned back, as if after a long absence, into a human being." The perfect read then, if you're feeling in need of the spiritual equivalent of a 50,000-mile service.
Tom Sutcliffe: Hitchens baffles the godly – again
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Social Studies: I imagine Hitchens needs a laugh – and that these reactions will give him one
Thomas Sutcliffe: Sport in school isn't all fun and games
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Social Studies: I hope that nobody gets too carried away by the idea that competitive sports are necessarily good for children
Tom Sutcliffe: The littering that junk mail forces on us
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Social Studies: Does a leaflet actually have to hit the floor before the subtle legal transformation between advertising and litter takes place?
Tom Sutcliffe: Let the snoopers be snooped upon
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Social Studies: If the state feels entitled to film us, we should be entitled to film it
Tom Sutcliffe: What a Carrie on: will we ever agree?
Friday, 4 June 2010
Another week, another cinematic misogyny row.
Tom Sutcliffe: Open societies need not let prisoners vote
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
We all have an interest in making the route back to the straight and narrow as broad and attractive as possible
Tom Sutcliffe: All together in the same train carriage
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Social Studies: First-class travel isn't a perk – they insist – it's an aid to operating efficiency
Tom Sutcliffe: What a rich man's car says about him
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Social Studies: Chris Evans can have his million pound car. But he has to attach licence plates reading "1D10T"
Tom Sutcliffe: Isn't mere beauty enough?
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Social Studies: You might say that high fashion isn't ready to take its Aborigines neat
Tom Sutcliffe: It should never be OK to hit children
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Being hit by a hand you know doesn't hurt less than being hit by a hand you don't
Clegg grows into a man with the confidence to interrupt first
Friday, 23 April 2010
Tom Sutcliffe: The terms of political trade were altered dramatically in the first debate. Last night did nothing to restore the old order
Tom Sutcliffe: Prejudices that don't run so deep
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Social Studies: Proximity rubs the labels off strangers and lets you see they're not that strange after all
Tom Sutcliffe: If it was a job interview in front of the nation, the vacancy's still open
Friday, 16 April 2010
"It will disappoint you and it will disappoint many people but we have come to the end of our debating time," said Alastair Stewart, wrapping up Britain's first television leader's debate.
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• Peter Popham: A cathedral turns its back on the people
This week the people who run St Paul's Cathedral gave us a lesson in what it's not for.
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Guns first, then with indecent haste, the deals
As the regime fell, victory turned to vendetta and voyeurism.
• Mary Ann Sieghart: Cameron picks a fight when he doesn't need to
Let's play a game of fantasy headlines – or rather nightmare headlines.
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7 Steve Richards: The Sceptics' rage over Europe is a proxy battle
8 Paul Vallely: God knows why Dawkins won't show
10 Leading article: Tunisia and Libya – two faces of the Arab Spring
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