Archive for May, 2009
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Model Behaviour
By Charlotte Hogarth-Jones — May 12, 2009
Charlotte Hogarth-Jones meets the UK’s oldest model Daphne Selfe over tea and cake
Global Focus
By Nouse — May 12, 2009
Join the Nouse politics team for the monthly roundup of all the happenings in the political world.
Inside the Israeli Defence Force
By Jim Bulley — May 12, 2009
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.
Prove me right Labour; arrest an MP: Davis on civil liberties
By Peter Campbell — May 12, 2009
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.
Vote on Europe: The parties Debate
By David Levene and Craig Martin — May 12, 2009
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.
Refugees flee Pakistan after ceasefire ends
By Peter Young — May 12, 2009
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.
Could Iran’s election be the most important of the year?
By Clive Pullman — May 12, 2009
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.
The Maccabees
By Laura Hulley — May 12, 2009
The Maccabees found their name by flicking through the bible and picking out a random word.
Political Edge
By Camilla Jenkins — May 12, 2009
Gordon Brown promised me that the recession would be over by 2011.
Ed Banger Records
By Isaac Hewlings — May 12, 2009
For every genre that becomes mainstream, or influences the mainstream, there has to be an odder, less straightforward artistic force in the background.
Nouse Playlist
By Nouse — May 12, 2009
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.
Pulled Apart By Horses
By Tom Killingbeck — May 12, 2009
Pulled Apart By Horses are the most insane, life-affirming band to come out of England, let alone Leeds, for a long while
Two Tongues
By Guy Rimay-Muranyi — May 12, 2009
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’.
In the Loop
By Duncan Pelham — May 12, 2009
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



