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Observer Profile: John le Carré: A man of great intelligence

For le Carré, who enjoyed his 78th birthday last month, the time has come to consider his legacy – there are 21 titles on the backlist – and where it will be best presented. With all respect to Hodder, it's not hard to see why a writer who is concerned ...

From ANDREW ANTHONY, Guardian Unlimited,  31 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Graham Greene,  MI5,  Philip Roth,  Kim Philby,  Timothy Garton Ash

Can we teach children not to be racist?

The impending appearance this week of the BNP leader Nick Griffin on BBC's Question Time has raised once more the spectre of racism and its continuing role in British society. But while Griffin may personify an overt form of prejudice, the kind that ...

From ANDREW ANTHONY, Guardian Unlimited,  17 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Nick Griffin,  BBC,  Enoch Powell,  Johnny Carson,  White House

Goodbye from Melvyn's one-man show

When The South Bank Show first started back in 1978, the prime minister at the time was a former chancellor who had inherited the post without fighting an election, and a battle-weary Labour government was struggling through its last year in power. ...

From ANDREW ANTHONY, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Sep 2009
Related Topics: William Trevor,  BBC,  Melvyn Bragg (politician),  Michael Grade,  Ken Russell

Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen | Book review

If you can remember the 60s, the saying goes, then you weren't there. The problem is the reverse with the 70s. It's the decade that no one who lived through can seem to forget. The era of three-day weeks, Abba and skyjacking has become a myth-decorated ...

From ANDREW ANTHONY, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Francis Wheen,  Kim Il-sung,  Richard Nixon,  Margaret Thatcher,  Harold Wilson

The boy who never stood a chance

Tracey Connelly, the mother of Baby P. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA The semi-detached house in which Peter Connelly spent the last hours of his brief life is bland and unremarkable. A slightly shabby prewar slice of suburbia, with bay windows and ...

From ANDREW ANTHONY, Guardian Unlimited,  15 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Tottenham Hotspur

Audi TTS Coupé TFSI S tronic

Can a car be too orange? This is not just an idle consumer-choice question, along the lines of whether or not a rug comes in burgundy. Rather, it is a philosophical inquiry that seeks to determine the chromatic limits of human desire in relation to the ...

From ANDREW ANTHONY, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Audi,  John Travolta,  Samuel L. Jackson

The Candy Machine by Tom Feiling | Book review

Like it or not, there is something about cocaine that excites the imagination. Not so much its chemical effect, which invariably leads to blabbering self-absorption, but more its social legend. Whereas other drugs enjoy fleeting periods of fashion, ...

From ANDREW ANTHONY, Guardian Unlimited,  8 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Abraham Lincoln

On the road: Lexus IS 220d

For some years now Lexus has been American for luxury. It doesn't matter that the car is Japanese – part of Toyota – because it's a brand that has had a major cultural impact in the States. If you'd been an American novelist in the last decade or so ...

From ANDREW ANTHONY, Guardian Unlimited,  24 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Lexus,  Don DeLillo,  Philip Roth,  BMW,  Audi

King of the track, lord of the rings

The single quality of Britishness most obviously lacking in Sebastian Coe is a sense of "can't do". Doubt, cynicism and irony, those character traits in which we remain a gold medallist nation, seem to play no part in his personality. Instead, he is a ...

From ANDREW ANTHONY, Guardian Unlimited,  18 Jul 2009
Related Topics: William Hague,  House of Commons,  Zaha Hadid,  Steve Ovett,  Ken Livingstone

Ford Ka 1.2 Style+

For all its obvious modesty, the original Ford Ka was self-consciously set on world domination. The clue to the size of its ambitions lay in its name. It sought nothing less than synonymy with the means of private road transport. The Ka didn't just ...

From ANDREW ANTHONY, Guardian Unlimited,  10 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Fiat,  Ford Motor Company

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