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The Way I See It

The shipyard painter, political activist and razor-sharp cartoonist Bob Starrett has just written a new book The Way I See It on his eventful life and times. Below we reprint one of his stories and review an essential read

From kitchen to harbour, sometimes I wonder at where I end up

LIKE I say, I get around. Sometimes, though, I even surprise myself.

La Boheme

ENO's production of La Boheme is a triumph,

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Would you like fraus with that?

Thursday 20 August 2009

The Time Traveler's Wife makes you wonder: "What wife?" Could they mean Clare Abshire, with a fraction the screen time of her chrono-challenged hubby? Makes you wonder why they kept the book's title.

The laugh's still on us

Wednesday 05 August 2009

Lock up your sons! It's the Revenge of the Women!

Making public enemies

Wednesday 08 July 2009

"I'm bad," sang Michael Jackson as millions swooned.

Feeling thirsty? Beware!

Tuesday 23 June 2009

The End Of The Line, Robert Murray's cinematic call to arms about our dying oceans, ironically opened on World Ocean Day.

I'm so mad I could spit!

Wednesday 03 June 2009

Koppel's stunning Sleep Furiously urges us to connect the dots

Expressing experience

Monday 18 May 2009

What it means to feel human emotion in a cinematic context

When we stood united

Tuesday 05 May 2009

The underlying themes in John Crowley's Is Anybody There?

So who needs to know?

Tuesday 21 April 2009

Iannucci's In The Loop questions the raison d'etre of democracy

Trouble with God

Monday 06 April 2009

Power isn't in the heavens - it lies closer to home

The pack senses blood

Monday 23 March 2009

How capitalism's fall is influencing Hollywood storylines