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Thursday November 16 2006

The permalink icon for Tony Blair answers your questionsTony Blair answers your questionsBy Susan Smillie / Politics 05:02pmblairwillanne.jpgTony Blair talks to Will Hutton and Anne McElvoy. Photograph: pm.gov.ukYesterday we asked you to submit some questions for an interview with Tony Blair; Downing Street also took questions from the Number 10 website.Observer columnist Will Hutton and the Standard's Anne McElvoy selected some of those questions and put them to the Prime Minister, unearthing some revealing answers. Mr Blair declined to offer a formal endorsement of Gordon Brown as his successor - despite the fact that Hazel Blears just this afternoon told the BBC that Brown was the heavyweight Blair referred to yesterday. Que some more speculation. You can watch Blair's interview on the Downing Street website and Blears' interview on the BBC's, here. Read more...OPermalink | 0 comment(s)

Wednesday November 15 2006

The permalink icon for Submit a question for Tony BlairSubmit a question for Tony BlairBy Observer / UK news 03:43pmNow that you've had time to absorb the Queen's speech outlining the government's legislative programme for the year ahead, we want your questions for the prime minister.Observer columnist, Will Hutton, will select questions to put to him tomorrow morning, so we need them by 7pm tonight at the latest.Read more...OPermalink | 37 comment(s)

Sunday October 29 2006

The permalink icon for Why should individuals fight climate change?Why should individuals fight climate change?By Observer / Environment 09:04amThere really is no escaping climate change, especially this week. Every commercial organisation worth their salt wants to hold a screening of An Inconvenient Truth, George Monbiot does the TV rounds promoting his book Heat, full of apolcalyptic warnings, and tomorrow the government's Stern review focusing on the costs of combating (or indeed failing to combat) climate chaos is published. Even the Scissor Sisters' halloween concert next Tuesday night is a Global Cool affair, aiming to defeat climate change 'one by one, tonne by tonne', observes Lucy Siegle.But what fascinates me is the number of people who insist on taking a 'what's the point?' stance: 'What's the point if George Bush doesn't do anything/China keeps expanding?'. The argument expands to include: 'Well it's up to industry/new technology to sort this out'. Read more...OPermalink | 3 comment(s)

Wednesday October 18 2006

The permalink icon for What's the point of the mobile club?What's the point of the mobile club?By Observer / Arts/ Pendennis column 10:38amPart of my job as the paper's diary writer is to make sure I put myself where the action is during the week, writes Oliver Marre. But while it has always been easy enough to receive intelligence on where famous faces will be appearing, trendy gatherings of everyday folk (or, 'the men on the Clapham omnibus', as my French cousin terms them, delightfully archaically) have traditionally been harder to happen upon. The internet is changing that.Read more...OPermalink | 25 comment(s)

Sunday October 15 2006

The permalink icon for Podcast: Jarvis CockerPodcast: Jarvis CockerBy Caspar Llewellyn Smith / Music 01:45amjarvisgetty1.jpgJarvis arrives at the NME awards. Photo: Dave Benett/GettyThe guest editor of this month's Music Monthly magazine - that's Jarvis Cocker - has wanted to get to the bottom of a thorny question: music - what's that all about then?To answer it, he called on a handful of friends and associates who were with him in Dublin to perform a concert of songs by Leonard Cohen.So it was that a week last Wednesday - October 4 - in what was billed as the penthouse meeting room at the Clarence Hotel (really, it was a bit boxy, and the price of a plate of sandwiches!) the erstwhile singer of Pulp sat down next to his mate Anthony Genn from hot new band The Hours, who was next to Antony Hegarty from Antony and the Johnsons; he in turn sat beside Beth Orton, who was next to Nick Cave and the great Mary Margaret O'Hara (making a rare public appearance). The line-up was completed by OMM's own critic-at-large Paul Morley.Read more...OPermalink | 15 comment(s)

Saturday October 14 2006

The permalink icon for Britain's cultural explosionBritain's cultural explosionBy Observer / Review 01:56pmHave the arts ever been so healthy? Here on the Review desk we're calling it a cultural explosion and we sent Rachel Cooke out to as many events as she could manage in a 24-hour period, in an attempt to find out why this is happening now. In this piece, she ask if it can last or whether feast is inevitably followed by famine.But for now, it's there for the taking. For instance, this week's openings included Carsten Höller's amazing slides at Tate Modern; Cabaret on Shaftesbury Avenue starring Anna Maxwell Martin who was so good in BBC1s Bleak House, the reopening of the Young Vic, a show of David Hockney portraits. Read more...OPermalink | 1 comment(s)

Tuesday October 10 2006

The permalink icon for Slide away at the TateSlide away at the TateBy Observer / Arts/ Review 11:16amThis is a first for me - I have never attempted a weblog before, confesses Lynn Barber. But the Obs generously volunteered me to write an account of going down one of Carsten Höller's slides at the Tate's Turbine Hall. Not that it was a hardship - I was dying to do it - and I had the perfect opportunity yesterday lunchtime when I was asked to a VIP preview between press view and official opening. Read more...OPermalink | 1 comment(s)

Sunday October 8 2006

The permalink icon for Why are parents so neurotic these days?Why are parents so neurotic these days?By Observer / UK news 05:43pmHow did family life get to be so complicated? Suddenly 'parenting' has been raised to the level of a science and become as modish as 'incentivising' and 'down-shifting', write Annie Ashworth and Meg Sanders, authors of The Madness of Modern Families. And it's a subject on which many claim expertise.Read more...OPermalink | 0 comment(s)The permalink icon for Best books of the last 25 yearsBest books of the last 25 yearsBy Observer / Books/ Review 09:38amLast May the New York Times sent a ripple through the international book world when it announced that its Sunday Book Review had polled a bunch of American writers and come up with the 'best book of 1980-2005'. The answer? Beloved by Toni Morrison, observes Robert McCrum.This got us thinking that it would be interesting - in the run-up to the 2006 Booker Prize - to do something similar for British and Commonwealth fiction 1980-2005. So we sent off letters to about 175 writers from Julian Barnes to Zadie Smith, and awaited their replies. About 120 responded - and in today's Review we publish the result. Read more...OPermalink | 155 comment(s)

Saturday October 7 2006

The permalink icon for Anna Politkovskaya: a tributeAnna Politkovskaya: a tributeBy Observer / International/ Media 04:07pmJust a few hours ago, I wrote that a record number of journalists - 75 - had already been killed in 2006. This morning, two more - both German reporters - were found murdered in Afghanistan, writes Peter Preston.And now one of the bravest, most garlanded correspondents in the world, Anna Politkovskaya, is dead; a melancholy 78th in line.Anna was already a legend wherever journalists met to praise the bravest and the best for her coverage of Chechnya. Read more...OPermalink | 6 comment(s)

Friday October 6 2006

The permalink icon for Something changedSomething changedBy Luke Bainbridge / Music 08:16pmAs previously mentioned, Jarvis Cocker is guest editing the next issue of Observer Music Monthly (out on 15 October). Jarvis was in Ireland this week, to perform at Hal Willner's 'Came So Far For Beauty: An Evening Of Leonard Cohen Songs', part of Dublin Theatre Festival. So OMM nipped over with a bunch of proofs for him to cast his eye over...Read more...OPermalink | 0 comment(s)The permalink icon for Awight now?Awight now?By Observer / Observer Magazine 04:52pmThis Sunday's Observer Magazine features an interview with Michael Barrymore, still recovering from the effects of drink, divorce and despair. But, as he tells Chrissy Iley, he's back, he thinks, from the brink and about to publish a book, Awight Now. Read an extract of the interview below.Read more...OPermalink | 1 comment(s)The permalink icon for Name your favourite footie filmName your favourite footie filmBy Observer / Arts/ Film/ Review/ Sport 02:50pmBack in May, in a report from the Cannes Film Festival for the Observer Review, I wrote that Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait was 'the greatest film about football ever made'. I knew I was putting myself on the line. Movie fans are passionate - try arguing with one about the greatest Scorsese movie, for example. The zeal is clearly doubled for a football-loving cinephile, writes Jason Solomons.And indeed, I've had an extraordinary response to my championing of the Zidane movie. People tell me it shouldn't be in cinemas, that it is an art installation, that it's boring and how dare the people who made it (artists Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno) claim to make a football movie that doesn't even show the goals? But I love the film and I stand by my statement that it's the finest football movie, being almost entirely about football for its 92 minute running time.Read more...OPermalink | 37 comment(s)

Friday September 29 2006

The permalink icon for Jarvis Cocker wants scary song suggestionsJarvis Cocker wants scary song suggestionsBy Observer / Music 10:09amThe next Observer Music Monthly has been taken over by Jarvis Cocker, the erstwhile singer with Pulp who's been causing a stir in the music industry before the imminent release of his fabulous debut solo album, Jarvis. We're not mincing our words over this record, which may very well be the greatest ever made (see the issue on 15 October for Jon Savage's verdict). You may have heard the single that precedes it on the radio, but then again, possibly not, considering the chorus of 'Running The World' has it that 'c**ts are still running the world.' A good point, excellently made. Which made us think he should have a go at running OMM, as guest editor.The planning started some time back, and the week before we go to press, the new Ed is firing off emails, revising proofs, coining silly notions, and generally getting his hands as mucky as possible. Jarvis now lives in Paris, so after initial meetings in London, OMM later jumped on the Eurostar to finesse some of the layouts of the magazine with the man over a café au lait.Each month on the Observer blog, we ask you, the readers, to recommend songs that touch on a certain topic. This month, Jarvis has picked the subject, and writes:Read more...OPermalink | 661 comment(s)

Thursday September 28 2006

The permalink icon for Road rage over speeding storiesRoad rage over speeding storiesBy Stephen Pritchard / Readers response 06:48pmReaders have been rattling their keyboards this week over the subject of speed on our roads. Last week, we reported on the reopening of the debate over the punishment of dangerous drivers as new figures show that deaths on the road are rising. In the same issue we also carried stories on a campaign to challenge speed cameras and the progress of Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond, after his 300mph crash.The irony that all these subjects should appear in the same paper wasn't lost on our letter writers. Read more...OPermalink | 11 comment(s)An RSS feed for this siteRead the newspaperSpecial report: the new-look ObserverSubscribe to the Digital EditionThe Observer blog home7 DaysArtsBooksBusinessCommentEnvironmentFilmFoodHealthInternationalInternetmadnessMediaMusicObserver MagazineObserver ReviewPendennis columnPodcastsPoliticsReaders responseReviewScienceShameless promotionShiny and newSportTittle-tattleTravelUK newsWomanAbout this blogOur bloggerOur webfeedsElection BlogNews blogEditors BlogGamesblogTechnology blogCultureVultureAudio reportsSpecial reportsEmail us           Advertisement

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