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Frontline 6 V1.Pdf A BROADSHEET SPRING 2011 / £3 FRONTLINE PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEAN-JACQUES GONFIER. PAGES 07–10 I THE Frontline CLUB EVENTS B 13 NORFOLK PLACE, LonDON W2 1QJ N U +44 (0)20 7479 8950 / WWW.FRONTLINECLUB.COM F IS SILVIO S O H The Frontline Club Charitable Trust runs a programme april 12, On your doorstep,photography and poverty. of panel discussions and documentary screenings An eye-opening presentation of photographs will be CONTENTS that bring together leading international journalists, accompanied by a discussion with two respected photographers, filmmakers and video journalists. All photographers about their experiences of working in 03 ‘IL DUCE DOLCE’ B the events are open to the public, have an informal the UK, covering issues on their doorstep. John Hooper asks: Is Berlusconi losing his grip? atmosphere and end with a question and answer LOSING HIS GRIP? session. The discussion continues on our blogs and april 13, On the media: What does the future hold 05 BUSH & BLAIR L twitter feeds. We are also launching several new for the Arab state media. What is required in order Charles Glass on a very special relationship strands of events in our programme. All events are that a genuine revolution takes place in the media - A filmed, live broadcast on the internet and are available not only in Egypt but in other countries where autocrats 06 THe aRab aWakeninG as a video/audio archive on our website and podcast have used it to bolster their power? What happens in Enas Refaei on nuances of Spring across Arabia Caught WITH HIS POLLS DOWN, AND, MANY BELIEVE, HIS pants DOWN, on Itunes. countries such as Iran where control of the media I remains absolute? THE Italian PRIME MINISTER – DUE IN COURT IN APRIL ON SEX CHARGES – faces 07 INSECTS, PHotoessaY april 19, Zarghuna Kargar will be at the Frontline A universe in Hyde Park: Jean-Jacques Gonfier EVER-louDER HOWLS OF outrage AND CALLS to QUIT. HIS CONTROL OF R Club to discuss the stories of the hidden lives of women of Afghanistan that she heard while working 11 RUSSIAN LONDON THE MEDIA AND POPULIST touch have SEEN HIM THROUGH SIMILAR CRISES on the popular radio show, Afghan Woman’s Hour. Alex Dryden on the Russian bear in Britain BEFORE, BUT CAN HE ESCAPE THIS TIME? JOHN HOOPER IN ROME CHARTS SCReeninGS 12 info WaRS april 03, Armadillo. Followed by a Q&A with Director THE REMARKABLE CAREER OF THE MAN MANY italians FEEL IS STILL ‘ONE OF US’ B Janus Metz Pederson. Tense, guttural, and uniquely David Rieff calls ‘connectivity’s’ bluff. human, Winner of the International Critics’ prize at Marcus Gilroy-Ware on protest and the web. Cannes, Armadillo throws you into the experience of ILLUSTRATION BY CHRIS RIDDELL E war as a member of the troop itself. 14 A HOUSE DIVIDED Protest, technology and the end of fear Jenny Morgan on South Africa’s shackdwellers april 10, Gas Land. Oscar nominated GasLand The start of 2011 will be remembered as a period in R explores the tangled threads of the US’s search for which the barrier of fear fell across the Middle East 15 CALE FORCE natural energy production. and North Africa as people took to the streets Ed Vulliamy talks myth and movies in Wales demanding freedom from the tyrants who had L april 11, Sex, death and the Gods. Followed by Q&A governed for so long. 16 We Have loST... with director Beeban Kidron. The film examines the No one can predict where these momentous Derek Brown, a veteran’s veteran U devadasi, a group of Hindus who are married or events will lead and what the repercussions will be for dedicated to a god or temple in childhood only to be years to come. later sold as prostitutes. For this special event held at the The Royal S Institution of Great Britain the Frontline Club and BBC Issue 06/Spring 2011 © The Frontline Club april 17, Budrus. In an inspiring tale, Budrus follows Arabic Service will be bringing together some of the Designed by Sarah Douglas and Lee Belcher the struggle of a father and daughter team who fight key players, journalists and experts to discuss what C to save their village from imminent destruction at the has taken place so far and to try to gauge what the hands of the IDF’s Separation Barrier. future might hold. With those that were instrumental in organising O april 18, Blood in the mobile. Followed by a Q&A the uprisings we will be discussing the role that new with Director Frank Piasecki Poulsen. The film reveals technology has played; is social media simply a new the dark side of the mobile phone industry and the tool or has its role been more fundamental, changing N link between minerals mined in Eastern DR Congo. not only the way that people communicate but also the way that they think and act? We will be discussing how and when the movements where formed, what I TalkS common ideas they share and how they see things april 06, First Wednesday. A public meeting hosted moving forward. by Paddy O’Connell of the Radio 4’s Broadcasting The discussion will be chaired by Paddy O’Connell of House with topic announced only the week before. BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting House To subscribe go to www.frontlineclub.com EDitorial WHY DO THE BRITISH Call for TAKE IT CANDIDates In 1994 Naples was probably cleaner than it has ever that revolved around Coca-Cola Light and, sometimes, Berlusconi is among the contemporary world’s most leader – not once, nor even twice, but three times – a been (certainly cleaner than it has ever been since). It a bit of karaoke. What remains to be seen is whether successful politicians. If a modern-day Machiavelli man widely regarded in the rest of the world as a LYING DOWN? had been spruced up for that year’s meeting of what evidence that has titillated newspaper readers far were casting around for a leader on whom to model buffoon, if not something altogether more sinister? was then the Group of Seven, when Bill Clinton and beyond Italy will be sufficient to obtain, first, an an updated Prince, he might well plump for the Those questions are particularly pertinent in other heads of state had come to solve the problems indictment and then a conviction. And, what is more, diminutive (and apparently scandal-proof) media view of Berlusconi’s utter failure to deliver on his of the world. Looked at now, the list of leaders invited even before they reach court the prosecutors will have billionaire politician. central pledge. At the 2001 election, which marked to talks in the old Royal Palace has a distinctly a number of obstacles to overcome: Berlusconi’s Berlusconi has been in power for eight of the last the beginning of what has since become the It has become an almost casually normal headline in the and the rest laugh all the way to the tax haven. The Bayeux-Calvados award for war historical look. François Mitterrand has been dead for lawyers argue that, for reasons of jurisdiction, their 10 years and during that time has stamped his Berlusconi decade, he promised his compatriots a national and local press: ‘Fury At Rail Fare Rise’, ‘Fury At Gas The oh-so-thrifty coalition proves itself impotent in correspondents rewards a report on 15 years. Helmut Kohl, John Major and Jacques client ought never to have been investigated by personality on Italy in a way that no other leader has new economic miracle to match the one that Price Rise’. Never the real story: ‘No Fury At Any Of This Extortion preventing a further bonus-guzzle by bankers, already bailed- Delors have all long since retired. In fact, none of the prosecutors based in Milan, and they say the case done since Mussolini. Unlike his more enduring transformed their country between the late 1950s a conflict situation, or its consequences leaders at the summit has been active in politics since should have been referred to a special court that predecessors, moreover – such as Alcide De Gasperi, and the early 1970s. Racket. People Queue Up To Pay Up, then Shut Up’. out by the taxpayer’s hard grind, having looted the economy. for civilian populations, or on a news It goes on an on. The price of a barrel of oil settles and The much-heralded ‘trickle-down effect’ that was supposed to 2003: with one exception – the host, Silvio Berlusconi, judges government ministers. Only one of the offences Aldo Moro, Giulio Andreotti and Bettino Craxi – he It could be argued at the time that this was not decreases, Britain’s privatised gas, water and electricity bills rise follow the prostituting of our country to the super-rich and item concerning the defence of individual who was by no means the youngest of those present, of which Berlusconi is suspected can normally be has built around himself a personality cult that is such a preposterous idea. Berlusconi, after all, had to record levels and British Gas announce record profits – while financial sector has not only failed to occur, it has become a freedoms and democracy. is still leading his country 17 years later. tried without the need for committal proceedings. quite unlike anything seen in a post-war western turned himself into Italy’s richest man. Was it so publicly-owned utilities in continental Europe keep steady, far ‘trickle-up’ – no, a waterfall-up, from the people to the fat-cats. Not for the first time his grip on power is looking The scene looks set for a protracted legal wrangling, European democracy.
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