Archive for May, 2009

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Model Behaviour

Charlotte Hogarth-Jones meets the UK’s oldest model Daphne Selfe over tea and cake

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Global Focus

Join the Nouse politics team for the monthly roundup of all the happenings in the political world.

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Inside the Israeli Defence Force

The IDF is one of the world’s most controversial militaries, with one of the worst reputations. Jim Bulley travels to Palestine to meet the team trying to change this.

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Prove me right Labour; arrest an MP: Davis on civil liberties

The Damien Green affair is just one area where David Davis has found himself involved heavily in the public eye since resigning his seat in Parliament over the government’s proposed 42 day detention bill last year.

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Vote on Europe: The parties Debate

Conservatives/Labour/Liberal Democrats…who should get your vote? Students make a case for each party and why they deserve your support in the European Parliamentary Elections.

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Moment of Zen

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Refugees flee Pakistan after ceasefire ends

Pakistan is undergoing one of the largest exoduses in its history following Pakistani attacks on Taliban strongholds in the Swat Valley region. Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain estimates that over 500,000 will flee the region now that a large scale offensive has been launched in Mingora, the region’s largest city – a figure amounting to one quarter of the region’s population.

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Could Iran’s election be the most important of the year?

Following decades of tense foreign relations between Iran and the rest of the world, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last month declared that the Iranian nation was at last “a true and real superpower” at the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Islamic Revolution.

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The Maccabees

The Maccabees found their name by flicking through the bible and picking out a random word.

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Political Edge

Gordon Brown promised me that the recession would be over by 2011.

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Ed Banger Records

For every genre that becomes mainstream, or influences the mainstream, there has to be an odder, less straightforward artistic force in the background.

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Nouse Playlist

Deliciously simple, and yet completely insane. There’s little musical ingenuity going on here, just an over-an-over synth riff laced with splashes of repetitive lyrics which are, unsurprisingly, all about shoes.

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Pulled Apart By Horses

Pulled Apart By Horses are the most insane, life-affirming band to come out of England, let alone Leeds, for a long while

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Two Tongues

A more fitting opening to this eponymous debut would in fact be the album’s ‘Interlude’, in which a female vocalist tells of the chance meeting of two guys who bond late on a Saturday night over ‘movies made about outer space’.

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In the Loop

Alastair Campbell, Director of Communications for most of the Blair years, recently insisted his portrayal as a fierce and manipulative spinmeister in In The Loop did not offend him

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