Grim realities
It was somewhat weird that Pina Bausch’s Palermo Palermo opened on the same night as Spain’s victory over Italy in…
From our own correspondent
‘Interviewing Afghan warlords is always something of a delicate dance,’ writes roving BBC reporter Nick Bryant in Confessions from Correspondentland…
Wild life
Laikipia My new pride and joy is a pedigree Boran bull named Woragus 317. We know him as Ollie. Sired…
New world order
When World Cities 2012 — better known as the current Pina Bausch season — was first presented, questions were raised…
Bookends: Arkansas tales
Stranger men have become stars than Billy Bob Thornton, but not many. His obsessive-compulsive disorder encompasses a bizarre list of…
Latham’s Law -30 June 2012
First, an important update. In September I reported on the new system by which the memory of journalists would be…
Bookends: One for the road
Jay McInerney is best known for his first novel, Bright Lights, Big City (1984), which winningly combined sophistication and naivety.…
Latham’s law
Nothing excites journalists more than a debate about the future of journalism. While this is not unusual among professional groups,…
Tales of the city
Last Wednesday two of the three live pooches that appeared in Pina Bausch’s Viktor did onstage what most dogs do…
Bookends: Un poco goes a lang Weg
Here esse un curiosité, and kein mistake. Diego Marani (above) esse eine Italianse writer and EU officialisto livingante in Brussels,…
New build
The Bauhaus was a sort of university of design, whose progressive ideas eventually fell foul of the Nazis. But as…
Unconditional love
Not many dance-makers have had their art celebrated in major, award-winning feature films. Pina Bausch has. Wim Wenders’s 2011 Pina…
New build
The Bauhaus was a sort of university of design, whose progressive ideas eventually fell foul of the Nazis. But as…
Bookends: The Queen’s message
It is a sad fact that most ‘self-help’ books end up helping no one, other than the people who wrote…
Monsieur Hollande and Madame Bovary
François Hollande has had it with austerity. Well, fair enough — austerity is dull and painful. No wonder other European…
Monsieur Hollande and Madame Bovary
François Hollande has had it with austerity. Well, fair enough — austerity is dull and painful. No wonder other European…
Wild life
Juba After an all-night rainstorm in Juba I woke to see the mosquito that bit me in the dark. Now,…
Me and my shadows
Shadows and reflections have always triggered all sorts of fantasies. Theatre itself, in the words of many playwrights and theorists,…
Bookends: Shady people in the sun
Carla McKay’s The Folly of French Kissing (Gibson Square, £7.99) is a very funny, cynical tale about British expatriates in…
Latham’s law
For those who study the succession to the throne, last Friday was a red-letter day. Britain’s Prince Charles gave a…
Bookends: Prep-school passions
In his introductory eulogy, Peter Parker calls In the Making: The Story of a Childhood (Penguin, £8.99) G. F. Green’s…
Latham’s law
In the 1980s classic Ghostbusters, Ray Parker Jr’s theme music gave rise to an enduring catchcry: Who you gonna call?…
Brideshead re-elected
David Cameron and George Osborne have been repeatedly accused by a fellow Conservative of being ‘posh boys who don’t know…
Brideshead re-elected
David Cameron and George Osborne have been repeatedly accused by a fellow Conservative of being ‘posh boys who don’t know…
Latham’s law
Parliamentary service confers on its participants a wide range of life skills. One of these is an unerring ability to…
