Issue 12 Gold – Sublime

Let’s Talk About The Rain

laurasan — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:01:01 +0000

Jaoui plays the part of Agathe Villanova, a well-known feminist writer who, during an unseasonably rainy summer, travels to her native Lubéron in the south of France for a political rally and to help her fragile younger sister (played by Pascale Arbillot) sort out their recently deceased mother’s belongings. A local downbeat film-maker, Michel Ronsard...

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Gold Rush

Stephen Armstrong — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Mark Britten is a quietly spoken man with a soft smile and friendly handshake. We meet in a fashionable vegetarian restaurant where he drinks chai tea and discusses the property portfolio he’s currently building up. The working capital to start this little nest egg came from a couple of years in the Middle East working...

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The Measure Of Success

laurasan — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:00:00 +0000

The criteria for measuring success There are expectations – family’s, society’s, our own – all of which change hugely over time. There are qualifications, the weight of which also change over time. But essentially there’s the dawning realisation that, for a nice middle-class girl like me with the world as my oyster and the...

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The R Word

Wayne Hemingway — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:00:00 +0000

The obscene sums of money being lavished on football teams and players by Arabs and Russians have upset much of the press, and make this small-town club supporter despair. But maybe we should be looking at this as ‘The Great Football Swindle’, whereby millions are being brought into the game that would otherwise be...

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Banking On The Sun

Jeremy Leggett — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:00:00 +0000

As North Sea gas depletes and global-warming impacts snowball, the choices the world makes about energy economics are increasingly going to look like life-and-death decisions. The more we rely on Russian gas imports for electricity, the more homeowners are likely to have the lights turned off on them if their government displeases a resurgent Kremlin.

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Mondongo, Telling Tales

laurasan — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

‘There are many ways in which the thing I am trying in vain to say may be tried in vain to be said’ Samuel Beckett: Three Dialogues When I first heard the word ‘Mondongo’ it seemed to me like an image for all that’s indigestible in Argentina, an immensity of mess, flatulence and slaughter. But...

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