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Try to which one is expected the time and by to be a metrosexual the notion has it, mastered you’ve become — The this month be published later Marian Salzman by — of Men, Future (look: the metrosexual that suggests is Law) Jude example: well-groomed; (look: rugged; out and the ubersexual —please God,example no: Jamie is in. Ubersexuals aren’t Oliver) just clothes horses but can will — you find your multitask pleasur- ubersexual average while chang- his woman ing in- and conversing a nappy ing about the new telligently all It exhibition. Rubens fuss, cer- sounds a tremendous Nuts- average tainly for your slob. reading largely who, that’s Women, abne- because men have for self- responsibility gated and devolved imagining Nighty Night: “Desperately depressing. Made me think much less of its creator.” creator.” Made me think much less of its depressing. “Desperately Night: Nighty Antonio Pappano’s Tristan und Isolde, with Placido Domingo: “It’s really compelling to hear the sixtysomething compelling really “It’s Tristan und Isolde, with Placido Domingo: Pappano’s Antonio Stuart watched Stuart In a separate incident, eyebrow incident, In a separate about her was something There before I had been truly tested, Even is it in these circumstances, Perhaps This week This week to listened lover.” with the role of the doomed young tenor wrangling What sort of What I will father new my be to A daughter? 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Butdowhat you didthen;setyourself episode oftheschoolroom, My Little and Goat were introuble after 9/11; theunfortunate intheWhiteadvice House: MrPresident, we ing theAlmighty. Butyou canhearthemuttered again president ishimselfsincere aboutinvok- has swallowed NewOrleans.Nodoubttheborn- bobbing cadavers oil,that with andslickwith protector slidesinto theputridblacklagoon, bishop ofWashington even ashisaura aslord a blasphemy. to make it go away; make accountability seem feel thepricklyheat ofpolitics, summonahymn counts, how togovern ortocommand.Ifyou head inthemidstofdisaster butnot,whenit dent whoknows how tochuckleandbow the vacations) arethedefaultmodeforthispresi- ofHurricanevictims Katrina. Prayers (like disasters, says hurricane continued to mount. Thetwo anniversary of9/11 asanger over the America thisweekend marked thefourth Katrina isnot9/11 Sorry MrPresident, The Guardian 12.09.05 So thisweekendSo it waspredictablethat the Thus hasGeorge BushbecometheArch- pray for theunnumbered nities onwhichthenation will is to beafurtherday ofsolem- days later, onthe16th,there Bush hasdecreed that, five reverence for9/11, W George annual rituals ofsorrow and lipstreaming behindthe Simon Schama dictu bad news;treating hisfellow-citizens, astoundingly bullshit-free, unafraid ofbearing of theinferno; hisdailypress conferences safety to bewhere hehadto be,inthethick piled upandamayor disregarded hispersonal dering toxic crater. Bloodandfood donations mutualism asvolunteers poured into thesmoul- cultivate) showed insteadthefaceofAmerican of aggressive (afictionit individualism liked to forms themostbrutal supposedly abandonedto ralist depravity. democracywith Ahard-ass city eignness: theocratic nihilistswhoequated plu- had beencommitted by peoplewhodefinedfor- land values.Thiswasbecausethemassmurders dalously andnotoriouslyindifferent toHeart- ity, even America’s with Babylon, acity scan- generated anintense surge ofpatriotic solidar- its with government.trusted Thecarnage of9/11 about America,andespeciallythoseen- ferences between what thetwo calamities said now toreinforcethedif- terday onlyserve —will niversary ofwhichwasmarked inNewYork yes- As John Kerry foundtohiscost,unexamined ing reason for launching theinvasion ofIraq. whenever heinvoked 9/11 astheoverwhelm- dent any from kindofseriouspoliticalscrutiny national community that protected thepresi- ican character. It wasthisredeeming senseof this couldbemadeinto agood epicoftheAmer- trapped insidethetowers. For allthehorror, tales ofbravery andsacrificeamong those thecountless ruins; firemen amidtheGothic being American:theflag ofdefianceflown by stories that madethemselves feelgood about and, astoundingly, saw images andheard The rest of the country lookedThe restofthecountry at ZooYork , like grown-ups. , revealed mirabile they were needed.Instead ofactsmutual suc- eries, few ofwhichshowed upwhenandwhere broadcasting listofdeliv- adefensive laundry up, andthen,oncereturned to the White House, offeringLeviathan fly-by compassion, 30,000ft scent into aHobbesian state ofnature; with ity andcompassion,theyhave ade- witnessed the Third World. Insteadofinstinctive solidar- brutality, destitution, desperation andchaosof they saw, assomany ofthemhave said,wasthe TV tofindout. ground”. 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Fema him as the man who for vote to Americans asked obligation best fulfil the most essential would and vigilant the impartial proof government: of the the fraudulence Now citizens. tection of its him, not in Bagh- haunt claim has come back to of Louisiana. counties In dad but in the drowned and furythe recoil, disgust millions of felt by responsibility, of this abdication Americans at his comically — notwithstanding the president self-serving promise to lead an inquiry the into fiasco — willwhirlwind. reap the assuredly 9/11 attacks. But Katrina was the most antici- was the most Katrina But attacks. 9/11 history. American in modern catastrophe pated abject per- in Bush’s point lowest the Perhaps he claimed that was when last week formance in the the breach predicted have no one could after report levees, when report New Orleans a simu- mention him, not to by commissioned But precisely that. had done year, just last lation for main- appropriation he had cut the budget for nearly 50%, so that defences by flood taining Louisianathe first time in 37 years was unable to need in would knew it it supply the protection which Fema, Likewise of catastrophe. the event agency had been a cabinet level under Bill Clinton had under the president, to directly reporting a hiring turned into his successor been opportunity for behemoth the lumbering into and disappeared failed that was Fema It Security. of Homeland the secure which failed to the Gulf; Fema delivery of food, water, istorians ought not to be to not istorians ought busi- in the prophecy this ness but I’ll venture willone: Katrina be seen in the as a watershed life public and political has it because of the US, the play put back into For the most shocking difference between difference the most shocking For profound question of American government. profound gov- proclaimed that Reagan since Ronald Ever but the problem, was not the answer ernment conservatism service public has stigmatised as an anomaly in the unpatriotic, parasitically the For self-sufficiency of American life. robust been too supine, too have most part, Democrats back to fight and too inarticulate embarrassed of of the legitimacy defence with a coherent is their if ever, Now, government. democratic the New Deal not to revive or the Great moment; preserving Society unapologetically (though a be a start) but to stake might social security compe- delivers the party that claim to being the government, humane, responsive tent, party of public trust. been have might was in what and Katrina 9/11 all the For of disaster. in the aftermath expected was impossible to it soundings, intelligence of the much less the timing, predict the ferocity, of his speech to the UN (and by implication (and by the UN speech to of his with him who supplied those damning unreli- unbidden, his offering, and able intelligence), that meltdown for the institutional lament own The adminis- levee. the breach of the followed the and of as a turkey is already thought tration wheel. to vulturesturkey are starting H Only on Friday, in an attempt at damage con- damage at in an attempt Only on Friday, And instead of an urban community of every of an urban community And instead

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Republican suddenly the a coincidence that entirely is it Republicanism, black hope of moderate great is everywhere,Colin Powell, publicly repenting point from afar . . . ‘perhaps the lowest View when he was abject performance in Bush’s predicted the claimed no one could have when breach in the New Orleans levees, that’ report after report had done precisely Photograph: Jim Watson/Getty Images Watson/Getty Jim Photograph: Photograph: Salvatore C Di Marco Jr; Briefing illustration: Joe Magee Joe illustration: Briefing Jr; Marco Di C Salvatore Photograph: Yes. We’re at the molecular level of the molecular level at We’re Yes. Exactly. Yes, that’s right. Common sense on right. that’s Yes, No. I’m just trying the to explain I’m No. Is there a bottom line in micro- Is there a bottom It’s no secret that you are a Catholic. you that no secret It’s You’re obviously a biochemist who You’re And the baseline is irreducible MB: see, this is one You bacterial flagellum. 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Do you always wear lipstick? Yes, this colour is the one I have created with MAC. It's based on the bougainvillea flower, and it had to be matte because I'm a chain-smoker. The collaboration made sense — you do things that are part of you. It would be weird if I did shepherd's pies or something!

Tell me about your bag. It's by Murakami for Louis Vuitton. I was having lunch at Kensington Palace to celebrate Gianfranco Ferre's exhibition at the V&A museum. Prince Michael of Kent said: “What a beautiful bag, did you paint it yourself?" I wish I'd had the time to paint it. I'm thinking of using it as a lunch box. Apparently, Wallis Simpson, who's my style icon, used to take so long ordering things at the couturiers that she would take chicken sandwiches with her. Maybe I should do that when I go to see Alexander and Philip!

How big is your wardrobe? It's not huge — it's very select. I've lost so many clothes because I've lived in 29 different houses. I'm moving at the moment, so perhaps it's a good opportunity to do an inventory. I understand that ambassadors' wives always travel with a list, and in fact I'm doing a storyboard — a visual plan for each day — for my outfits at the shows. It takes away so much pressure. The Guardian 12.09.05 Do you ever dress down? Well, I own a pair of white jodhpurs and I've recently been spotted in a pair of blue and yellow Adidas jogging bottoms that belong to Detmar. They're repulsive — I don't think my new personal trainer was impressed •

Isabella Blow’s lipstick is available at MAC counters in Harvey Nichols nationwide, price £11. 27 Section:GDN TW PaGe:11 Edition Date:050912 Edition:01 Zone: Sent at 11/9/2005 17:32 cYanmaGentaYellowblack 11 The Guardian 12.09.05 12.09.05 The Guardian In fact, the murmurings of dissent among the among of dissent In fact, the murmurings ciousness of news cycles, or of westerners’ ciousness of news cycles, 8 largely Live way, spans. Either attention least. at vanished — from the public eye, History Poverty with Make associated charities aid actually insoon. The promised started they said; in debt relief, for cluded the figures not $25bn, would fact, only $12bn of new money, Bank was trying The World in 2006. be available condi- imposing the debt relief, down to water and Germany nations; tions on the recipient talks to Oliver Burkeman Oliver talks to Bob Geldof Then — immediately — came the London Then — immediately targeting the continent’s poorest nations, it was, it poorest nations, the continent’s targeting the at eyebrow a sceptical to raise for once, hard stars. rhetoric of rock a summer of bad news from by bombs, followed of Hurricane the devastation and then Iraq, hoped that Live An optimist might have Katrina. 8 had vanished from the headlines because the scored leaders had, as Geldof argued, summit out of 10” on aid and “8 “10 out of 10” on debt blamed the capri- have A cynic might relief.

Poverty History, the charity coalition whose coalition the charity History, Poverty cause Geldof had more distributed adopted, wristbands, and persuaded than 6m white march on of thousands of people to hundreds of Chris Martin, the lead singer Edinburgh. that’s thing 8 “the greatest called Live Coldplay, in the historyprobably been organised ever of the world”; And a revolution. Madonna called it a the G8 leaders pledged later, days when, five along Africa $25bn a year, of aid to by doubling of debt relief programme with a wide-ranging Photograph: Dan Chung Dan Photograph:

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Isabella Blow Blow Isabella The close-up The Style The Guardian 12.09.05 The Guardian Interview by Interview Fox Imogen by Portrait Eamonn McCabe 26 Section:GDN TW PaGe:12 Edition Date:050912 Edition:01 Zone: Sent at 11/9/2005 17:33 cYanmaGentaYellowblack 12 idealistic anger, ontheone hand,andthedirty, cian isat theinterface ofavastupwelling of Guardian, heendedit. silence. Yesterday, the with inaninterview since Live has maintained 8, Geldof apublic AsthevolumeofdissentJohn hasgrown Bolton. ambassador, Washington’s controversial UN pledges anonslaught from ofhostility ledby in aneffort, asheseesit, to rescue theG8’s where theUnitedNations summitisbeing held, isduetofly thisweek,Later toNewYork, Geldof over are reaching Geldof amoment oftruth. arguments theanti-poverty within movement well away thedispute. from Butnow the one ofthemostimportant players —hasstayed Oxfam, for example — in its critique ofGeldof: thing’. It obliterated else.” everything the poorandwanting politicians to ‘do some- message beyond avaguenotionaboutcaringfor awallofcelebrities, “with andno History claims, “displaced” theeffortsofMake Poverty says inastatement. Live 8, theorganisation theWorld Development Movement strategy,” than thecampaignandwerepursuing theirown decidedthat theywere andBono biggerGeldof War onWant,Coventry, putsit. “It seemsthat of ishow John government, andhegot burned,” words “He for Geldof. got too closeto the at Gleneagles. leaders to signupto, intheirown handwriting, the obligations that Blairhadpersuadedallthe might prevent meeting themfrom constraints” Italy were letting it beknown that “budgetary ‘If we get The Guardian 12.09.05 His dilemmaiseasyto appreciate. Themusi- Make Poverty isby nomeansunited History But thedissenters reserved theirstrongest $25bn that wasn’t therebefore, where it comesfrom doesn’t matter’ Chris Martinperforming inHyde Park Gleneagles; Madonna’s Live 8turn; on MTV; with andKofi Bono Annanat andTonyTireless… fromtop, Geldof Blair of moneycanbe rapidly commandeeredwhen and anobjectlessoninhow massive amounts government standable distraction for theUS Katrina, whichconstitutes bothanunder- since July —notleastbecauseofHurricane He accepts,though,that muchhaschanged A changing agenda was always included.” thedebtisonly$1bnof$25bn.Butit Besides, “Everyone knewthat! That’s nothing new! and theaidmoneyare oneandthesame? Even ifthedebtmoney means ofgetting them.” there, theydidn’t exist, andnow we’ve got a doesn’tcome from fucking matter. Theyweren’t that wasn’t therebefore,wherethosemonies much got doneoragreedupon…Ifwe get $25bn international experts are justamazed that so “But outsidenarrow national politics… the hesays. continent. tobigit “I’m up,” nottrying professed aimofspurring development onthe founded by Tony Blairlastyear the with of theCommissionfor theinitiative Africa, to 50ofthenearly90points setoutinthereport Thesummit acommitment endedwith Africa”. Christian Aid,was“a sadday forpoorpeoplein the allegation that Gleneagles,inthewords of nomic justice.” process, you aren’t going toget political andeco- [But] unlessyou engage thepolitical with time, andthat’s partandparcel ofthegig… point andtherefore awhipping-boy at thesame ing wheretodraw theline:“You’re arallying other, engaged inanendlessprocess ofdecid- compromise-ridden world ofpower onthe In that context, isplainlyangered Geldof by

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Guardian Observer Financial Times Telegraph Sunday Telegraph Independent Times Sunday Times Overall Cinderella Man “No surprises, “Russell Crowe “A decent yarn “A pretty good “The boxing “It would take an “A boxing picture no subtleties, plays Jim Braddock about decent mainstream yarn” matches are both idiot not to mind that doesn’t Dir: Ron Howard 4 no unexpected 8 with simply 6 values decently 6 8 mesmerising 6 its complete lack 6 want to be a 6 reversals . . . It's dignity, as a man told” and viscerally of suspense” boxing picture” just feelgood without guile” disturbing” drama” Green Street “Charlie Hunman “A very silly film” “The characters “So consummately “ “Hard to know “A spectacularly “It has no idea how lurch between rubbish it's where to start its cockney thugs Dir: Lexi Alexander wins the Dick van misjudged 4 Dyke award for the 2 4 the vicious and 2 impossible to take 2 with this, but how 2 examination 1 should sound” 2 worst cockney the ridiculous” seriously . . . Do about Elijah ‘Frodo’ of football Film accent of the year” NOT PAY to see Wood as a football hooliganism” Green Street" hooligan?” The Aristocrats “A very funny, “A rude shaggy dog “Very lively — and “Smug and “Any joke told “A portrait of an “All filth and instructive and (in story is the basis staggeringly rude” overlong” repeatedly over no analysis” Dir: Paul Provenza, ultra-competitive 8 both the formal 6 for a series of 6 2 4 90 minutes soon 6 in-crowd and 3 5 Penn Jillette and informal variations, retold loses its lustre” their own personal senses of the word) and discussed by in-joke ” hysterical film” 70-odd comics" Julius Caesar “The best of Farr's “A cracker of “Far from being “It’s nothing “Farr sees Caesar “Comes across cutting-edge, it all particularly new as angry, sardonic Lyric Hammersmith, production lies a production” as a play about our 6 in its attention 8 5 feels like very stale 6 but it works” 6 own world's tussles 8 and tragic” 7 London to individual buns indeed” between tyranny character” and democracy”

A Few Good Men “While Sorkin's “No amount of “Ill-timed and “The play proves “This is a play that “Gripping enough" “The playwright ill-directed . . . thought-provoking has cleverly Theatre Royal play adroitly high-calibre thwacks you 6 rachets up the 4 delivery can rescue 4 this production 8 as well as hugely 10 between the eyes. 6 6 resisted the 6 Haymarket, London tension, it lacks a play past its comes as a big entertaining . . . a It is quick-fire, temptation the courage of its shoot-by date" disappointment" slick, fast-moving brutal, damning” to update” production”

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Harvest “Defies all the “The play “You could almost “For those tempted rules of modern unbalances smell the muck to farm, the moral Royal Court, 8 drama” 7 in its final, 8 and sweat” 6 is simple: don’t” 7 London sensational scene”

Paul McCartney “An intriguing “The problem “Dear Lord, what “Has a fireside “He sounds diversion . . . It has is, as ever, his on earth is going glow to which determined to Chaos and Creation 8 a sense of purpose, 3 stomach-turning 2 on here? . . . 8 you’ll find yourself 8 let his eccentric 6 in the Back Yard lovely tunes sentimentality” The lyrics are returning” side loose again” (Parlophone) and charm” simply dire” Thomas Adès Violin “Marwood seemed “Musical “Undoubtedly a “Much of the “The work’s special “Anthony Marwood “A score of Music Concerto / Prom 69 to have mastered cleverness at the brilliant work, pleasure of Adès's achievement is . . . captivated a remarkable 8 its every detail” 5 expense of any 8 exquisitely crafted, 8 music comes from 8 that it wears its 10 large crowd” 8 cunning and 8 Royal Albert Hall, warmth, beauty dramatically taut its riskiness . . . seriousness complexity” The Guardian 12.09.05 London or feeling” and fun to hear” pure enchantment” lightly” Alvin Ailey Dance “You do get a “Dancers such as “Superb” “It would be nice to “Dancers of this “Their recipe “Full of vigorous, queasy sense see them delve a quality would Company these deserve is simple and jazzy, skittish 6 that its iconic 6 choreography that 8 8 little deeper into 6 entertain with an 8 direct, and it's 7 dances” 7 Sadler's Wells, status may be stretches them the art of which evening of Pilates unbelievably London overwhelming its beyond what they they are such fine exercises” successful” artistic energy” know already” practitioners” Dracula “You don't have “A crowd-pleaser, “The jack-in-the- “Altogether this is “It is difficult to

Dance to be a sucker West Yorkshire flawed, but not box tombs and a full-blooded, engage with most 6 for gothic excess 6 dull. If only it 6 coffins-on-castors 8 seductive show” 3 of the characters” 6 Playhouse, Leeds to feel its offered a little are distractingly dramatic bite” more to sink one's hyperactive” 25 teeth into” Section:GDN TW PaGe:13 Edition Date:050912 Edition:01 Zone: Sent at 11/9/2005 17:33 cYanmaGentaYellowblack 13 The Guardian 12.09.05 12.09.05 The Guardian But isn’t there a risk, for an idealism-fuelled there a risk, for But isn’t Geldof days, he has been busily says, In recent Poverty a campaign called Make Perhaps at deals several through 8 forced “Live in New York Nations The halls of the United Additional reporting by Laura Barton reporting by Laura Additional declarations. Blair “was Blair agreement complete in declarations. with it,” he says, group, lead the To says. he “what is a figure with is needed post-political The Com- type figure.” Clinton — a Bill authority Africamission for in for criticism has since come but organisations, from some development it supported Geldof groups those same says changed suddenly critics the “Either before. Africa… Commission for their mind about the of aid and tick the doubling for asked or we box!” fucking the campaigner such as Geldof, into catapulted grow one might that leaders, of world company to power? proximity by starry-eyed you “Once the know to get you definition by engage, doesn’t “ It he says. involved,” personalities I whether me one whit to matter them or know not. Some I He to.” indifferent some I’m like, it. sounds as if he means trying African to heads of state, telephoning a as united, impress on them the need to stay to force the in order this week bloc, in New York from away and focus on to the G8 commitments such as the priorities, but less urgent worthy of the United on the reform report Volcker course the UN “Of Nations. be reformed, needs to can’t We can happen later. “But that he says. this to be sidelined.” allow and a set of concerts with professed the History, in history mandate the largest aim of bringing men, were most powerful to bear on the planet’s of end in a certain amount bound to always european Buston, Oliver disappointment. Data, group, campaigining of Bono’s director accepts the imperfection of the G8 declarations. may direction, motion, in the right But forward anti-poverty hard-headed be as much as any to hope for. activist ought deal, Gleneagles, the aid deal and the debt were but which perfect of which were neither our wildest a dreams far beyond nevertheless “The and momen- says. Buston huge ago,” year has been agreed on what is that tous task now forward. is now The UN summit paper is driven for those deals.” test the litmus sounds of the opposing echoed to long have the utopianism and dogged, messy pragmatism; chance of being stand a better to tends latter outside the premises. Geldofheard — whatever of thou- hundreds before when on stage he says sands of rock fans — clearly plans to contribute “Look, you than the former. more of the latter stance to every- oppositional a totally can take might and there are various reasons you thing, can use the platforms you “Or he says. do that,” you.” people give that ‘The summit greatest ‘A great justice has great ‘A ‘A disaster for ‘A ‘It isn't all that everyone all that isn't ‘It ‘For the first time ‘For G8. . .differentG8. . views Annan Kofi for Africa ever’ Bob Geldof out of 10; . . . On aid, 10 been done out of 10 . . . on debt, eight frankly’Mission accomplished, Nigerian Olusegun Obasanjo, president call a I would what have we willbreakthrough of focussing on Africa’ Blair Tony real, is progress, it but wanted, achievable progress’ co-author, Paul Vallely, Commission for Africa report Gleneagles at was achieved ‘What commitments If its was historic. action, 13,000 into are translated died every have people who would will live’ day now Charles Abugre, Christian Aid ‘This history. will poverty not make Millions is vastly disappointing. It the world of campaigners all over been led to the top of the have and the view, shown mountain, frogmarched are being we now again’ down Demba Dembele, Moussa on Alternatives African Forum of what very are critical ‘We Bob the Geldof did during The objectives G8 Summit. 8 campaign of the whole Live to do with poverty had little reduction in Africa. was It Geldofa scheme to project and the rescue of to Blair as coming poor and helpless Africans’ Development The World Movement poor’ the world's “From the very get-go, everyone was aware the very get-go, “From Geldof is particularly scathing about the Geldofscathing is particularly item, agenda a central The issue was never required. “This natural disaster, this tragedy, disaster, “Thisrequired. natural the even upon by is remarked what highlights which States, to the United visitor most casual it, among and, poverty is the limitless-seeming of clearly visiblethe vast number poor,” he says. shocking its this, in all revealed has “Katrina reacted of course, Congress, seriousness. up go $50bn, which may releasing immediately, with endless the that Compare $200bn. to of the richest seven between negotiations an entire $25bn for find an extra to nations continent! Endless, endless.” Peter the WDM’s of in the words that, accusation on nothing “the G8 said absolutely Hardstaff, trade” impact of export the massive — to relieve activistssubsidies, which many is a far argue Africa than aid or for problem profound more address. can ever debt relief the next off until put being was Geldof — it says talks — Organisation Trade of the World round all demon- was discussed at it and the fact that the “From 8. of Live power the lasting strates be no discus- would told there were we get-go, the for kept was being that that sion on trade, round,” Organisation Trade World Geldof says. a be possible to get might I did think it yet “And subsidies, which are export for the end of date on impacts immediately that a grotesquerie in the south and kills people, economic growth about it. to use emotional language want if you heads of to relevant So talked in Gleneagles we people held… What talks were and trade state, they used about trade the language is that ignore talking essentially You’re is so extradordinary. about free capitalist economies, saying trade, tools debt as bargaining use aid and they won’t their ‘liberalise’ these countries demand that to open them up to economies — in other words, of our the far superior strength by be ravaged goods.” trade v idealism Pragmatism the conceptual gulf these that like is in words It on War like Geldofbetween and organisations on War To becomes most clearly apparent. Want was simply a failure. the G8 declaration Want, was signed Geldof, was a success because it it To lip service can always pay up to; politicians to but they will, idealistic goals, he overarchingly cash for the promises they to pay insists, have save is to now Gleneagles. The fight made at from being compromise pragmatic that even of the 750 amendments buried under the weight the UN at the US by be proposed due to summit. up if no one’s of signing the point of this: what’s it?” to do going the start of the Geldof At says. 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Famously, she often great classicroles asiftheyhadbeen innocence: anability to treat even the great actress, however, isacalculated fuck ’em, fuck’em, fuck’em.” stitched themotto: with “Fuck ’em, anembroideredreaction, with cushion author, notoriouslyaware ofcritical Hare’s Amy’s View, shepresented its at its results. Whensheplayed inDavid work, theymight beslightly surprised to learnshehasapassionfor needle- Bywould bepleased and AsTimeGoes her inTVsitcoms like AFineRomance What Isuspectreally makes a Dench “Acting,” saidEdith Evans,“is ± The Guardian 12.09.05 23 Section:GDN TW PaGe:15 Edition Date:050912 Edition:01 Zone: Sent at 11/9/2005 15:17 cYanmaGentaYellowblack 15 ± The Guardian 12.09.05 12.09.05 The Guardian “I get the feeling she’s a bit chaotic,” I say. a bit she’s the feeling “I get then seems to looks pained, that remember He in with such flies 37, King, later, minutes Five stand as the in to When she was parachuted within the Labour Although politically, the election. 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which will the Labour be screened at party con- ference no idea if I will “I have this month. later again. I am parliament be back in British ever I on the assumption that working currently In the House not be back. I may probably . . . that career never of Commons, you find out that your hope you will, it or how expect you turns out how spend gift. I prefer to will. is in my it None of it and influence, I control that things time over my up a community or- setting I’m is why so that in that influence I can have I feel ’cos ganisation, politi- a fucking still I’m She pauses. “God, area.” I?” And bursts out laughing. cian, aren’t has changed. I ask if her position on Iraq graphs. is incredibly pened in Louisiana. it I think that grasp America has no that shows profound; it a rebuild needed to on the activity whatever in their do that And if they can’t city. destroyed they can’t obvious why then it’s country, own to war went we So that in Iraq. . . . I regret do it be to itself has shown with a country that incapable of the very basic actions required to reconstruction.”deal with post-conflict

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Asabonusthere areallthese important tothefuture ofschool that isreally money oneducation and government isgoing tospendalotof which isanewschool,becausethe Children’s Centre, Green, andCastle Iwant toseethe AbbeySure Start ing. the groundalreadyandwhat’s happen- Dagenham, A13-land,toseewhat’s on I want togo totheThames Gateway, Green,Castle Gale Street, RM9 Centre, North Street, Barking; Abbey Sure Start Children’s Piers Gough, CZWG Architects of that periodallaround theworld. be mentioned thebestbuildings with architect, Owen Williams. Thiscould quality peoplehere aswell, like this some sectionsofthepress. There were imported by foreigners,asreported in exist inthiscountry, andwasn’t It’s alsoproofthat functionalismdid ity ofthesurfaceare allextraordinary. The detailing, thecolourandqual- those materials, it’s amazing for1932. is classic;using that blackglassand it wassaved andrestored. Theoutside that period, andwe shouldbegladthat sentations ofBritish architecture of on my mind.It’s oneofthebestrepre- ing many, many years ago butit’s still I firstsaw theoldDailyExpress build- (ex-Daily Express), EC4 120 Fleet Street Jan Kaplicky, Future Systems you to rush first? opento thepublic.Whatwill should most unusual, secretive andiconicbuildings For oneweekend only, someofLondon’s Access allareas Steve Rose in it you canseethe tremendously catalogue ofthefurniture people,and Showroom.is theBeyon Ihave the I’ve chosentwo, bothconversions. One 20-21 Way, Bloomsbury WC1 EC1; theSwedenborg Society, Beyon Showroom, 8-14 Vine Hill, Eva Jiricna Feilden CleggBradley, hasdonethis. spaces. I’m sure that thisschool,by and integratin good communication between people, light andair, large spacesencouraging that modernarchitecture hasto offer: really take advantage ofallthethings arebuildingsSchools where you can replacing anearlieroneonthesite. It’s anewschool, over abigwall. past it you canonlyjustseeit poking near whereIlive, andwhenyou drive This schoolintrigues mebecauseit’s Road, NW1 Haverstock Crogsland School, Hopkins Architects Michael Hopkins, is completely timber-panelled. There’s Room, alsotheCaptains' which all theoriginalplaster decorations. bled Robert Adam room inside it, with people don’t know there’s areassem- a building hiddensecrets.Most with an almostbaroque appearance. It’s also There’s alevel ofintricacy that gives it common practice now. bescared?”everyone It's sortof the outsideofbuilding. 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It have She it?” Should I leave looks horrible in photos. bag, then shrugs — the make-up over hesitates can turn a it She says in. — and dives it” “Sod all this self-consciousness; how, person weird, when she asks, can you not become a phoney people in the street whether to smile at have you as God,” she mutters, — “Oh sane or they are on us — “I know bears down another passer-by She misses a lot of things a nutter.” he’s this guy, miss this, office, but she doesn’t in about being all. of it insincerity cheek-aching the sheer, the election when she during was a point There I lose,” and it “I hope that in her diary, wrote of the vitriol because but threats, and the wasn’t normal with people. because she missed being had the difficult, when you’ve course it’s “Of debating the country’s into of walking privilege of view,’ ‘This point chamber and saying, is my not as difficult as out. But it’s to then be locked And that’s life. own out of your locked being the time.” She me most at was distressing what smile. “That — and the level a politician’s gives Hamlets.” in Tower of poverty Under police escort (above) with her constituency Livingstone. Ken (Below) Does that mean she regrets voting for the war? Does mean she regrets voting that When I voted the time, no. I — at “I think what Brick Lane. walk along yards Every five We shouts a happened?” could this have “How she says. democracy,” “That’s opinion,” no one’s take wouldn’t “She I have the photo. for She applies make-up the way I did, I never could have imagined that could have I did, I never the way be able to evacu- wouldn’t superpower the world America does all agree that We cities. own its ate doesn’t it know we in various ways; terrible things hearts and minds. to move needed what’s have move to has a basic ability imagine it But we is this wasn’t showed people. 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RSC TICKET HOTLINE BOOK ONLINE AS YOU AS YOU LIKE IT THE COMEDY OF ERRORS THE COMEDY TWELFTH NIGHT A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM The Guardian 12.09.05 The Guardian ‘DOMINIC COOKE’S STAGING ‘DOMINIC COOKE’S STAGING 20 Section:GDN TW PaGe:16 Edition Date:050912 Edition:01 Zone: Sent at 11/9/2005 15:15 cYanmaGentaYellowblack 16 mother’s sister istheagony aunt Miriam King’s Newcastle motherisJewish, from (her we have ahuge amount ofanti-semitism.” this country, andpossiblyasaresponsetothat else..” stereotypes ontopofeverything racial stereotypes andreligious andbigotry graft reasons forherunpopularity, too. “Whenyou him over thehead.” wouldn’t know aprincipledargument ifit hit myopponent possibly Having said that, principledarguments againstit. are many about what’s angry going oninIraq, andthere strong majority. “It’s rational to beincredibly which cutgreat swathes into her10,000- about hersupportforthewarinIraq,shesays, crowds.by angry Therewaslegitimate anger and Galloway were, at different times,attacked nastiness ofthecampaign,inwhichbothKing the next 15years”. not leave it “inthislifetime,by whichImean she iscommitted Green andwill to Bethnal and asked ifshewould considerstanding. But informally approachedby otherconstituencies been possible, andsheadmits shehas get outofthe would out ofborstal”. assumedshe It waswidely She compares leaving theCommonsto “getting feeling hasbeengratitude. It’s like aliberation.” whelmingly, “I have feltdevastation onoccasion.Butover- says, she wasgutted whenshelostherseat. adjust to life after parliament. Ofcourse,she past fourmonths to King hasbeentrying you always endupmaking atit ofyourself.” thisjobisthat,onewayoranother,problem with “The most hyper-normal. Shesays shecan’t win. so excessively normalastobe,inthecontext, al- mixer for herbirthday, it seems she wants aCD about how Americapissesheroff,orsays that as shedoestoday, orusesbadlanguage, ortalks want toappearhuman.Whenshewears Nikes, simulation employed by mostMPswhenthey Certainly King’s isnotthedismal “normality” ± political realm, asmore “real” thantheirpeers. The Guardian 12.09.05 “We have ahuge amount ofIslamophobiain What doesshemean,racial stereotypes? But shesays there were other, lesslegitimate The senseofreleasewasmagnifiedbythe The “thisjob” isananachronism. For the overwhelmingly borough asquickly , theprevalent spend my resources incontacting amuchwider oftencouldn’t vote. Icouldhave chosento who —refugees,with people thehomeless—“were says, sheworked hard butthepeoplesheworked a lacklustre anddisorganised campaign.No, she didn’t votes, hard that enoughtowin it was try asheropponent; thatshe wasnotasvisible she complaints King’s from own constituents that politics andrace politics, andit’s disastrous”. it.” Theelectionresult wasabout“factionalised larly being Jewish. Thoseare thethings that swung halalmeat, andit’s particu- tuition fees,it’s also you theelection.Ofcourseit’s Iraq, butit’s also 800 votes, any issuethat costsyou 800votes costs election? “Definitely. Ifyou loseanelection by she thinkanti-semitism might have cost herthe government hadnoplanstobanhalalmeat. Does Tonyfrom Blairinwhichheconfirmedthat the where rational debate ends.” army to bombthePalestinians.’Andthat’s onpaying theIsraeli salary her parliamentary ber ofparliament thinksit’s allright to spend Iraq, butwhatIcannotstomachisthatmy mem- ‘Is it Iraq?’ Andhesaid,‘No. I’m about angry very before, butIjustcan’t doit thistime.’Shesaid, gali manwhosaid,‘Ivoted for herbothtimes Muslim assistant knocked onthedoorofaBen- seriously. That wasconfirmedtomewhenmy realised that peoplewere taking it really, really funding well. usvery TheninthiselectionI sent peopleoutto nickstick-it notes, theyweren’t myused tolaughwith assistant that, given we spreadthat Iwasfundedbyrumours Mossad. I similar thing happenedin2001,whenthere were exaggerated Jewish conspiracy theories.A halal meat. “And thiswasontop oftheusual, during thecampaign,thatshewanted toban suddenly it wastheJewish partofme.” of methat attracted themostprejudice. And but inmy life it hadalways beentheblackpart shock me,becauseI’m aware ofits existence, during thecampaigninawaythat didn’t exactly that [anti-semitism] wasusedreally effectively 40 years forrefusing tofight inVietnam. “And for wasexiled hishomecountry from can who Stoppard), andherfather isanAfrican-Ameri- Mayoral elections team for theLondon Dobson’s campaign member ofFrank Mo Mowlam asa with Tony Blairand January 2000 (left); young OonaKing High flier Didn’t Galloway justwork harder? Ihave heard aroundaletter In theendshetooktocarrying She says that kept bizarre rumours surfacing, pictured in . the (right) in April 1999. nail bombattack Straw afterthe JackHome Secretary Green Touring Bethnal election up tothe2005 meeting intherun- Galloway at a with George with her best friend abouther electioncampaign herbestfriend with documentary writing anovel andhas made aTV calledtheBattle to Engage. Sheisalso search Policypamphlet fortheInstitute forPublic Re- young peopleinpolitics andhaswritten a either way. Shesays sheisinterested inengaging immediately bats away being without drawn asubjectwhich,ifraised, she seat intheLords, There have that shewould beenrumours like a she says, “all that smiling. You feelsocheesy.” emerging again,allsmiles.“It canget toomuch,” cuses herselfto go andstandintheloo, before people offering andsheex- theirgood wishes down, butyou canhelpyourself get up.” quoting Jesse Jackson —“You can’t helpbeing rightscan civil movement androunds offby ground andthelessonslearnedfrom theAmeri- Bangladeshis, aboutherown mixed-race back- me!” Shetalksaboutdiscrimination against Newham Welfare candosomething Trust for “I’m anunemployed personnow! Maybe and stony-faced Bangladeshi women. Shejokes, group oflocalcouncillors,community leaders, stands behindatrestle tablelooking outover a church hall,sheishandedamicrophoneand I’m here to help” —isoutofdate now. At the gali forjustsuchoccasions—“Hi,I’m your MP, of theseaweek.” but says shecanwing it. “Iusedto doabout10 munity findjobs. She hasn’t prepared anything, designed to helppeopleintheBangladeshi com- launch oftheNewhamWelfare agroup Trust, A give himallduecredit. He doesit brilliantly.” of hisgame,gamebeing rabble-rousing, I George Galloway isimmenselyclever. At thetop range ofpeopleandsendingthemglossyleaflets.” King notfinished inpolitics. isobviously When sheleaves, King issurrounded by Ben- The openershelearnedoffby heartin Of heropponent, shesays, “Imustadmitthat (left) with then (Right) , east London for the east London TownA13 toCanning in car andhare it down the cancelled. We get inthe meeting hasnotbeen out that her4o’clock bile rings andit turns t thispoint, King’s mo-

CultureComment º a housethat canshutdown like acash fold upandmove placeto place, from at Paddington ahousethat Ican Basin, as Heatherwick's Folding Footbridge medium. ButIwant ahouseasclever inelegant, comfortless brutal, thought tobeanaustere, workaday, skeleton would beatank.Steelis is ashed.Adwelling asteel exo- with walls anddoors.Ifyou do, your house stone orstucco. You can't have steel but you have tohideit underbrick, my steel thanwhenIstarted. pavilion I'm nonearernow tocommissioning proof, termite-proof andtransparent. thing cheap, modular, versatile, fire- idea, andhewasn't thefirst.Some- that. BuckminsterFuller hadthesame steel.There'sfrom nothing newabout toget herselfasmarthousebuilt trying For five years, thislittle pig hasbeen public space,he'd have waited for ever. to beapermanent feature inacentral build 550tonnes ofsteel monument invitation amajorBritish from city to “Da Bean". IfKapoorhadwaited for an knownsteel as CloudGate, otherwise limity ofKapoor's polishedstainless and, ontheother, themonumental sub- stainless-steel curlsandparabolic trellis, of Gehry's bandshell,withits flying You canmake ahouseoutofsteel box oropenoutlike aflower, and but asculpture. could do it. Heatherwick has could doit. Heatherwick made a steel pavilion but, made asteelpavilion steel istheonlymaterial that alas forme,it's notahouse The Guardian 12.09.05 • 21 Section:GDN TW PaGe:15 Edition Date:050912 Edition:01 Zone: Sent at 11/9/2005 15:17 cYanmaGentaYellowblack 15 ± The Guardian 12.09.05 12.09.05 The Guardian “I get the feeling she’s a bit chaotic,” I say. a bit she’s the feeling “I get then seems to looks pained, that remember He in with such flies 37, King, later, minutes Five stand as the in to When she was parachuted within the Labour Although politically, the election. The Labour man says she isn’t in. the election. The Labour she isn’t man says “Exactly.” with her anymore. work he doesn’t left — she’s humour breezy and apologetic good to rush to a have home, she might her phone at been could have although it meeting, 4 o’clock frus- ever were you forget you cancelled — that was The big question about King with her. trated in war believe Did she is she for real? always: which (To move? a career or was it with Iraq popu- to her plunging point always she would “Some career move.”) and reply, rating larity to was her famed ability broadly, And, more person, a successor to Mo a regular like behave in this sense, authentic? Mowlam for BethnalLabour and Bow in Green candidate with much enthusi- she was not received 1997, from north London, a first- asm. A 29-year-old in a constituency a non-Muslim time candidate, like looked King voters, of almost 50% Muslim to seat a safe given of New Labour, the newest complain She could hardly her career. fast-track himself crash- Galloway later, years when, seven he was landed from to stand against her; outside in interest no accused, as she had been, of having they could do for his the locals beyond what from The Scottish MP had been expelled career. the Labour party to troops British after urging in Iraq. “illegal orders” he said were disobey what support for the war made her As King’s the unpopular — she only just won increasingly — so Galloway’s reselection automatic for battle rose. stock are as polarised as and Galloway spectrum, King a plainness of for known they could be, both are mark them out, in the appears to speech that ona King didn’t ever really ever didn’t ona King lose her think she would On Galloway. job to George after 6, of May the night campaign of the bitterest election, the last general was that fear her worst was an- when the result Definitely. There Definitely. Did anti-semitism Did It was the Portillo moment of the election, the moment was the Portillo It I am outside the door of later, months Four

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The Guardian 12.09.05 The Guardian J Love (winning an Oscar (winning for the latter), Love treated Americans in particular have she as if awe, her with a reverential family. of the royal an extension were other great marks her out from that When she theatre? dames of the British in the the Old Vic at actress was a young father 1950s, Alec McCowen’s late an It’s Atom”. dubbed her “the Mighty her formidable pins down that apt phrase “The about Judi,” thing nuclear energy. me, “is that told one of her sister-dames now, Even working.” stops she never the lush when she could be enjoying she is of semi-retirement, pastures an exhausting through midway Eyre’s shoot on Richard eight-week Notes novel, film of Zoe Heller’s up on a Scandal. means getting It off and going every morning five at in London’s location to and Belsize Park. Hornsey Dench, says “Heigh-ho,” life!” “the glamorous who blackmails a female teacher threatening friendship by colleague into it Isn’t her guilty secret. expose to names in British acting? acting? in British names What puts Judi Dench a rung above the other great the other great Dench above puts Judi rung a What ‘Please God, not retirement’ ‘Please God, not retirement’ 22 Section:GDN TW PaGe:14 Edition Date:050912 Edition:01 Zone: Sent at 11/9/2005 15:17 cYanmaGentaYellowblack 14 Portrait The Guardian 12.09.05 Dan Chung legion of Dench fanswho’velegion ofDench admired future son-in-law. Andalthoughthe seen tomake aflirtatious passat her She’s Bracknell I’ve theonlyLady ever herdesiretodogood. within devilry but thereisalsoastrong element of performance to offerspiritual solace; seat andshe’d aftertheinterval fled!” only problemwasthat we looked at her directed relentlessly towards her. The one-liner,every song every was gag, every our besttocheerherup. 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Butshealsosendsup essential tomy life andwork”, without Quaker, shesays ofherfaith “it’s about its source.Brought upasastrict work, it isinteresting tospeculate Only Dench, youOnly Dench, feel,would usea “When we were doing Arbuzov’s If thereisamoral quality toDench’s about cutting away thedeadwood.” were indeedinthepresence ofevil. moment madeyou Dench believe you her skirts.For abrief,extraordinary as ifmalignforces were stirring beneath unsex mehere” sheunforgettably started you spirits that endonmortalthoughts, awareness. Whenshecried,“Come, a young woman shocked into self- not somebloodthirstyoldharridanbut Mwas Duncan.” Asaresult, herLady play andnotknow they’re going to kill cometoa lotofschoolchildren the will Macbeth: “We’ve got to remember that directed Stratford herlegendary Lady also recalls telling Trevor Nunn,who having read thecomplete play. She comes to afirstrehearsal without written yesterday. Famously, she often great classicroles asiftheyhadbeen innocence: anability to treat even the great actress, however, isacalculated fuck ’em, fuck’em, fuck’em.” stitched themotto: with “Fuck ’em, anembroideredreaction, with cushion author, notoriouslyaware ofcritical Hare’s Amy’s View, shepresented its at its results. Whensheplayed inDavid work, theymight beslightly surprised to learnshehasapassionfor needle- Bywould bepleased and AsTimeGoes her inTVsitcoms like AFineRomance What Isuspectreally makes a Dench “Acting,” saidEdith Evans,“is ± The Guardian 12.09.05 23 Section:GDN TW PaGe:13 Edition Date:050912 Edition:01 Zone: Sent at 11/9/2005 17:33 cYanmaGentaYellowblack 13 The Guardian 12.09.05 12.09.05 The Guardian But isn’t there a risk, for an idealism-fuelled there a risk, for But isn’t Geldof days, he has been busily says, In recent Poverty a campaign called Make Perhaps at deals several through 8 forced “Live in New York Nations The halls of the United Additional reporting by Laura Barton reporting by Laura Additional declarations. Blair “was Blair agreement complete in declarations. with it,” he says, group, lead the To says. he “what is a figure with is needed post-political The Com- type figure.” Clinton — a Bill authority Africamission for in for criticism has since come but organisations, from some development it supported Geldof groups those same says changed suddenly critics the “Either before. Africa… Commission for their mind about the of aid and tick the doubling for asked or we box!” fucking the campaigner such as Geldof, into catapulted grow one might that leaders, of world company to power? proximity by starry-eyed you “Once the know to get you definition by engage, doesn’t “ It he says. involved,” personalities I whether me one whit to matter them or know not. Some I He to.” indifferent some I’m like, it. sounds as if he means trying African to heads of state, telephoning a as united, impress on them the need to stay to force the in order this week bloc, in New York from away and focus on to the G8 commitments such as the priorities, but less urgent worthy of the United on the reform report Volcker course the UN “Of Nations. be reformed, needs to can’t We can happen later. “But that he says. this to be sidelined.” allow and a set of concerts with professed the History, in history mandate the largest aim of bringing men, were most powerful to bear on the planet’s of end in a certain amount bound to always european Buston, Oliver disappointment. Data, group, campaigining of Bono’s director accepts the imperfection of the G8 declarations. may direction, motion, in the right But forward anti-poverty hard-headed be as much as any to hope for. activist ought deal, Gleneagles, the aid deal and the debt were but which perfect of which were neither our wildest a dreams far beyond nevertheless “The and momen- says. Buston huge ago,” year has been agreed on what is that tous task now forward. is now The UN summit paper is driven for those deals.” test the litmus sounds of the opposing echoed to long have the utopianism and dogged, messy pragmatism; chance of being stand a better to tends latter outside the premises. Geldofheard — whatever of thou- hundreds before when on stage he says sands of rock fans — clearly plans to contribute “Look, you than the former. more of the latter stance to every- oppositional a totally can take might and there are various reasons you thing, can use the platforms you “Or he says. do that,” you.” people give that ‘The summit greatest ‘A great justice has great ‘A ‘A disaster for ‘A ‘It isn't all that everyone all that isn't ‘It ‘For the first time ‘For G8. . .differentG8. . views Annan Kofi for Africa ever’ Bob Geldof out of 10; . . . 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It the world of campaigners all over been led to the top of the have and the view, shown mountain, frogmarched are being we now again’ down Demba Dembele, Moussa on Alternatives African Forum of what very are critical ‘We Bob the Geldof did during The objectives G8 Summit. 8 campaign of the whole Live to do with poverty had little reduction in Africa. was It Geldofa scheme to project and the rescue of to Blair as coming poor and helpless Africans’ Development The World Movement poor’ the world's “From the very get-go, everyone was aware the very get-go, “From Geldof is particularly scathing about the Geldofscathing is particularly item, agenda a central The issue was never required. “This natural disaster, this tragedy, disaster, “Thisrequired. natural the even upon by is remarked what highlights which States, to the United visitor most casual it, among and, poverty is the limitless-seeming of clearly visiblethe vast number poor,” he says. shocking its this, in all revealed has “Katrina reacted of course, Congress, seriousness. up go $50bn, which may releasing immediately, with endless the that Compare $200bn. to of the richest seven between negotiations an entire $25bn for find an extra to nations continent! Endless, endless.” Peter the WDM’s of in the words that, accusation on nothing “the G8 said absolutely Hardstaff, trade” impact of export the massive — to relieve activistssubsidies, which many is a far argue Africa than aid or for problem profound more address. can ever debt relief the next off until put being was Geldof — it says talks — Organisation Trade of the World round all demon- was discussed at it and the fact that the “From 8. of Live power the lasting strates be no discus- would told there were we get-go, the for kept was being that that sion on trade, round,” Organisation Trade World Geldof says. a be possible to get might I did think it yet “And subsidies, which are export for the end of date on impacts immediately that a grotesquerie in the south and kills people, economic growth about it. to use emotional language want if you heads of to relevant So talked in Gleneagles we people held… What talks were and trade state, they used about trade the language is that ignore talking essentially You’re is so extradordinary. about free capitalist economies, saying trade, tools debt as bargaining use aid and they won’t their ‘liberalise’ these countries demand that to open them up to economies — in other words, of our the far superior strength by be ravaged goods.” trade v idealism Pragmatism the conceptual gulf these that like is in words It on War like Geldofbetween and organisations on War To becomes most clearly apparent. Want was simply a failure. the G8 declaration Want, was signed Geldof, was a success because it it To lip service can always pay up to; politicians to but they will, idealistic goals, he overarchingly cash for the promises they to pay insists, have save is to now Gleneagles. The fight made at from being compromise pragmatic that even of the 750 amendments buried under the weight the UN at the US by be proposed due to summit. up if no one’s of signing the point of this: what’s it?” to do going the start of the Geldof At says. 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