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MUSE. 06/11/12 A Grave Affair The Muse fashion shoot, to launch the Le Set A/W’13 collection Pen of Damascus Ali Ferzat talks about being Syria’s most infamous cartoonist The modern Sloane Peter York is elite society’s expert on all things posh M2 www.ey.com/uk/careers 06/11/12 Muse. M8 M20 M22 Features. Arts. Film. M4. The Sloane Ranger handbook darling, Pe- M18. Celia Scruby reveals what’s happening M22. Aesthetica Short Film Festival is happen- ter York speaks to Tom Witherow about what in York for Illuminating the city, and we look at ing in York this weekend. Elle Hoppe speaks to being posh really means. Leeds Art Gallery’s taking art home initiative. festival director on what to watch out for. M6. Syria’s most famous and most villified Fashion. Food & Drink. cartoonist Ali Ferzat tells Laura Hughes why he’s risked almost everything for the message. M16. Miranda Larbi looks at the controversy at M23. A real Polish stew is whipped up by Hana YSL, outerwear trends, and Ben Burns gives us Teraie-Wood. Plus, a James Bond cocktail and a M8. Did you know monks brew the best The Cold List. A Grave Affair photoshoot on M12. review of new restaurant, The Bline Swine. beer? Martin Spurr takes a trip to Ampleforth Monastry to discover their secrets. Music. Image Credits. M10. Leading criminologist, David Wilson M20. Skindred frontman speaks to Ally Cover: Natasha Wigoder. tells Alex Swadling about the need for penal Swadling about the pope. Plus the John Cage reform, and how to spot a serial killer.. festival here at the university. Would you vote for yourself? Sophie Rose Walker he American Election race has be the best man for the job. ever been more persuaded by the would vote for myself. so flipping genius, is the team itself. taught me two rather grown- For the average unqualified fact that ‘your campaign for being There are some things I am The team that are the President’s Tup, self-reflecting things. student, looking for a job, being the you’ must be consistent, honest and very good at, like wearing sensible staff, his right hand men, (and one Firstly, and contrary to what better man is the most you can hope footwear, for example, and I could hell of a woman – CJ), are the peo- they told you at school that ‘the tak- for, seeing as you certainly won’t be easily devise a campaign for men ple who really run the ship. Togeth- ing part’ is all that matters; it’s the the best. “My presidential and women everywhere to advocate er, they are perfectly balanced in winning that really bloody counts Of course for non-presidential the benefits of my footwear policy. wit, talent, strength and weakness, now. Obama will not be consoled by candidates, university is a perfect campaign would be I reckon it would be passed on the and perhaps that is the ultimate getting a yellow sports day sticker testing ground for all those cam- crap. I don’t like smil- Hill. But there are some things that campaign lesson; it’s not a one man and being told by Michelle that she’s paigns to be put to the test, because I am really not very good at, like be- show, because nobody can be per- “so proud of him” if he doesn’t win it’s the one place where people are ing with strangers, ing on time. I am very often late and fect, it’s the team that’s the impor- a second term this evening. Obvi- fairly apathetic as to whether you it could be conducive to some pretty tant thing. After all, to be the kind of ously, the importance of winning remain true to your manifesto once and I really don’t like awkward moments in the Situa- person who, in every respect, is un- is proportionate to the level of sac- ‘in office’. Indeed, if you didn’t get tion Room in the White House, like fallibly competent and reliable, in a rifice too, because they’ve probably re-elcted for a second term as Veg early mornings.” missing drone strikes. vast variety of situations is a pretty had to re-mortgage their homes 3 Soc chair, you could still run for I should point out at this stage preposterous ask. times to stop their campaigns from Scoop Food Cooperative president. more importantly, it must win. that everything I have ever learnt So, when you ask yourself going bankrupt. But it’s not a bad, Failures and second chances are the Unfortunately however, the about American politics is from the whether you’d vote for ‘you’, re- or mad, mantra to think about, after making of you I hear, so by gosh, be second thing I’ve learnt from Amer- West Wing, so all political refer- member this: your strengths are all if you’re the best man for the job grateful for them. ica’s great race is that my presiden- ences I make are potentially entirely your campaign, and it should win, and you’ve got the best ideas then I’m not a very competitive per- tial campaign would be crap. I don’t fictional. Yes, it’s a television series, but your true success is wholly de- you should be crowned the winner. son, and I am wholly convinced that like smiling with strangers, and I but it was perhaps the finest script pendent on your team, your mum, Unfortunately, although Oba- Lacrosse players have a problem, really don’t like early mornings. But writing a series has ever known. your dog, your boyfriend, your Chief ma is definitely the better man, nei- but, just as I ponder what life might more relevant than either of those Aside from the writing though, of Staff, your very own West Wing. ther Obama nor Romney appears to hold after university, never have I two things is that I just don’t think I the thing that makes the West Wing Now, go buy the box set. 06/11/12 www.ey.com/uk/careers M3 Controversial Cartoons The Lonely Smoker Ali Ferzat had his hands broken for drawing contentious political cartoons in his na- tive Syria. We look back at some of the funniest caricatures of dictators. Rose Troup Buchanan y friends and I are (and calming) hangover ciga- presently entering rette, I came to the conclusion Mwhat I have come to that it is not the attraction of endearingly call, the university those younger that is itself the midlife crisis. Predominantly, problem: it is the lengths that but by no means exclusively, we are prepared to go that’s the third years across campus are snag. waking up to the hideous re- After an amusing night out alisation they are old, and also I no longer wake up feeling rela- to the experience of waking up tively nubile and fresh, instead, with someone from the year be- I surface feeling akin to Jabba low lying beside them. the Hut after a binge, and with In an attempt to cling on a temperament to match. The Ultimate Parody of a Dictator: to our youth, we’ve become ra- This does not aid the study- Sacha Baron-Cohen’s most recent film pacious stalkers of the younger ing I am obliged to do as I haul Fidel Castro, Cuba. Survived 634 years, as if by osmosis close my still battered body into the assassination attempts, including proximity to such carefree indi- library. A hangover is signifi- 134 poisoned cigars. viduals will transport us back to cantly less amusing when con- the days when it was just about fronted by a intolerant tutor OK not to do your reading, it informing you that insufficient didn’t matter if your supervisor knowledge of the Indian mu- still hadn’t got a clue who you tiny of 1857 is, frankly, not ac- were, and you were blissfully ceptable. And she’s got her eyes ignorant of the existence of Key closed when she says this. Ter- Texts. rifying. Flailing merrily in one of The desire to close your York’s delightful establishments eyes and just let it all rush past the other night, I slipped briefly is a tempting one. We are daily out of my pleasantly inebriated confronted with the knowledge haze, only to clock that the num- we should be applying for jobs, ber of people I knew in the club careers, and some kind of sus- had diminished so significantly tainable employment in a few Hugo Chavez, President of that outside of my immediate short months. We’re unpre- housemates, (also contorting pared for such realities. And the Venezuela. His longest Sunday their bodies in variously undig- net result ain’t pretty. talk show was 8 hours. nified poses) there was no-one For a friend of mine, the in the place that I really knew. stress of it all was just too much. Muammar Gaddafi, Libya. Had What was this? Where were my After a spectacularly irrespon- 40 female virgin bodyguards, and friends? My drinking buddies, sible evening he provided the has a fear of heights. fellow flailers, and, most impor- piss-de-la-resistance by empty- tantly, my smoking comrades? ing his bladder on the floor of Gripping my cigarettes his own bedroom, before crum- like the undoubtedly poison- pling into a damp unconscious ous comfort they were, I headed heap. outside to locate people that I This was the University knew.