End of the line?
Poetry is dead. Well at least dying. The modern obsession with celebrity has finally knocked it from its perch and one of the great areas of literature is no longer loved or appreciated.
Features: Race to the White House
Put simply, last week's Democratic Primaries changed the nature of the 2004 presidential election.
Features: Matt Sellwood, National Campaigns Co-ordinator of the Young Greens, responds to the new government enquiry into the intelligence basis behind the Iraq war
The Hutton Report was a whitewash. Amazement has reigned across the political spectrum at the sheer gall of a Government that simply refuses to accept the scale and enormity of its own errors. As if Hutton was not insult enough to the collective intelligence of the country, the new inquiry into the "intelligence failures" before the war, led by Lord Butler, will not explore the only question with real importance: What were the real reasons for us entering a war that has so far cost over 10,000 innocent lives? ...
Features: Not your average Smith
A highly talented fashion designer with international acclaim isn't someone you would usually expect to be on the end of your internal phone. "Allo! It's Paul Smith!"
Features: The hype behind the headlines
The reaction to Janet Jackson's breast has once again proved the conservatism of the American media. For anyone who still hasn't seen Jackson's breast (complete with decorative pierced nipple shield), the story goes like this.
Features: Suicide is not the answer
Liberal Democrat MP Jenny Tonge was forced to stand down from the front bench last week for her comment to a pro-Palestinian lobby that "If I had to live in that situation - and I say that advisedly - I might just consider becoming one [a suicide bomber] myself."
Features: Better, down where it's wetter
It's official: wetsuits are the new black. Scuba-diving is in, say leading travel agents, who have noticed a dramatic increase in the popularity of dive holidays over the last three years. It doesn't take rocket science to see why: who wants to spend their winter holiday freezing their bits off on the piste, when you can get your thrills and tan your tummy at the same time? I can safely guarantee that if I can do it, you certainly can....
Features: Not the most punctual president
Having been scheduled to make a brief appearance at Rhodes House as a guest of the African society, Dr Bakili Muluzi, President of Malawi, arrived in Oxford late to address an impatient crowd.
Features: A pathetic generation?
It was certainly nothing if not surprising. One is now so used to Oxford students taking an apathetic view to all but the most pressing matters of self-interest that the occupation of the Examinations Schools on 27th January genuinely had to be seen to be believed. Yet there it was - student militancy, live and in the flesh....
