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Gilbey on Film: Rust belt
Jacques Audiard tosses his audience some bones.Reluctant as I am to rain on anyone’s parade, to cast a pall over the party before the sausage rolls have even cooled, I have a bone to pick with Rust and...
View ArticleThe Economist: austerity in 2010 "threatened recovery"
The coalition against austerity is overwhelming.It feels as though a rubicon has been somewhat crossed: it is now, undoubtedly, mainstream opinion that fiscal consolidation – austerity, to you or me –...
View ArticleHollywood comes out to bat for Obama: video round-up
Sarah Jessica Parker, Lena Dunham, and Lucas Gray have all produced videos in support of the president.Under two weeks to go until the US election, and the media world is going headfirst into its...
View ArticleDebate is raging - but the parties just seem to be drying up
People want ideas, they want to be heard, challenged and confirmed. But our political parties have little to offer them. Last Sunday, I got up early and trooped off to do a panel on "free will" at the...
View Article“Unless you know what the Olympic effect was you can't really say what this...
Business quote of the day.“Unless you know what the Olympic effect was you can't really say with any degree of accuracy about what this means for the overall recovery” Peter Dixon of Commerzbank, as...
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Beautiful comic illustrates ugliness of capitalism
John Riordan's "Capital City" reads like a child's fairytale, but looks like a fever dream.Artist (and, full disclosure, friend) John Riordan has produced a fantastic comic, inspired by Blake's...
View ArticleThe Friday Arts Diary
Our cultural picks for the week ahead.Festival The London Korean Film Festival, various venues, 22 October-3 November Across various London venues, comprising 33 events, the seventh London Korean Film...
View ArticleA publishing powerhouse
Could a merger between Penguin and Random House stop Amazon in its tracks?After the FT reported that talks had been held between two of the world’s “big six” publishers, Penguin and Random House, an...
View ArticleEDF announces 10.8 per cent hike in energy prices
EDF becomes fifth of the “Big Six” providers to raise tariff prices. From 7 December, three million UK customers will face a yearly increase of £122 on their energy bills after EDF Energy announced a...
View ArticleThe UK economy hasn't grown more than the US
The US has grown by 2.3 per cent in the last year, while the UK has remained flat. The final set of US growth figures before the presidential election were released today, showing that the economy grew...
View ArticleFive questions answered on Cynthia Carroll
CEO steps down. Cynthia Carroll today announced she would step down from mining giant Anglo American. We answer five questions on Carroll’s resignation. Why has Carroll stepped down at this time?...
View ArticleOn the campaign trail: Romney gets his facts wrong
Turns out Jeep isn't moving to China.There must be pool reporters covering the Romney campaign trail who by November 6 will have the Kid Rock song “Born Free” indelibly burned into their brains....
View ArticleThe Tories are still lying about "a million" new private sector jobs
The party still won't admit that Cameron is including 196,000 posts reclassified from the public sector. Earlier this week, I explained why David Cameron is misleading voters when he claims that "one...
View ArticleBritish ExxonMobil executive murdered in Belgium
His death has ignited suspicions of professional assassination. 60-year-old Nicholas Mockford, an Exxon-Mobil executive, was shot dead on October 14 as he left an Italian restaurant in a suburb of...
View ArticlePrivate sector greed didn't cause Winterbourne View abuse
A meaningful response from the left must consider how trade unions should or could have made a difference. So the Winterbourne View Eleven have been sentenced. Six are starting prison sentences, and...
View ArticleMorning Call: pick of the papers
Ten must-read comment pieces from this morning's papers1. The BBC's real crime was to act like the Catholic Church (Guardian) The Corporation's instincts when confronted with allegations of child abuse...
View ArticleThe economy: hurting, yes. Working, maybe - but for whom?
Growth that doesn't fix the squeeze on living standards poses a challenge to all parties.Ken Clarke, the cabinet minister with responsibility for giving mildly revealing interviews, has given a mildly...
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The politics of childcare are heating up. Here's why.
All parties are desperate for measures that will make life easier for hard-pressed families. Affordable childcare is an obvious candidate.Often an issue only gets the attention it deserves due to a...
View ArticleMorning Call: pick of the papers
Ten must-read pieces from this morning's papers.1. Cameron should beware the Australian master strategist (Sunday Telegraph) Peter Oborne sees weakness and panic in the plan to hire the architect of...
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