August, 2010
Columns, Modern Times, Politics - Tuesday, August 31, 2010 12:43 - 12 Comments
Modern Times: On the REAL cricket scandal
The current media frenzy around the alleged cricket "match-fxing scandal" has been a predictable mix of sanctimonious glee and barely-concealed xenophobia. It seems that, as the far as the UK media is concerned, the crime has been identified and the criminal caught. As our political editor Omayr Ghani shows in a thorough and incisive analysis, the real story is a lot more complicated than that.
Politics, South of The Border - Monday, August 30, 2010 11:51 - 1 Comment
South of The Border: The view from Latin America
In the news this week in Latin America: Massacre in Mexico, Morales unhappy with Peru, Brazil awaits its first female president and much more. Ceasefire correspondent Tom Kavanagh delivers his weekly round up of what's been going on south of the border...
Features, Ideas, Music & Dance - Sunday, August 29, 2010 23:54 - 7 Comments
Formed a band? Made a record? Now what?
Every starting band knows the situation: you record something, spend more than you can afford on getting a few hundred professionally-printed copies made, and then you spend ages wait for sales that never come. As someone who's seen it all before, Alex Andrews shares top 5 tips on how to sell your record the clever way.
Arts & Culture, Features, Film & TV - Saturday, August 28, 2010 18:23 - 0 Comments
Film Review: The Infidel
The Infidel is a comedy whose subject matter includes Muslims, Jews, cultural identity, religious intolerance, clerical hypocrisy, political islamism, violent extremism, anti-semitism, media mendacity and plain old-fashioned racism. Upon its release on DVD earlier this month, Hicham Yezza reviews it.
Columns, Diary of a Domestic Extremist, Politics - Thursday, August 26, 2010 2:01 - 9 Comments
Diary of a Domestic Extremist – Carry on Camping?
The past week has seen the 5th Camp for Climate Action take place outside the Royal Bank of Scotland's headquarters in Edinburgh. In a passionately polemical column, Mikhail Goldman argues that the choice of target could have brought together a wide spectrum of greens and anti-capitalists, but that the timing was completely wrong. He concludes that although the climate camp movement has to be applauded for its considerable achievements, its prominence has come at a heavy price.
Arts & Culture, Books, Features - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 23:23 - 0 Comments
Book review – Kosovo: The Path to Contested Statehood in the Balkans
Kosovo's quest for independence throughout a turbulent 20th century is the subject of a book that aims to disentangle myths from realities. Omayr Ghani, Ceasefire's Political Editor, is impressed at the scholarship but sceptical of the analysis.
Columns, Modern Times - Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:40 - 2 Comments
Modern Times: Wolf in sheep’s clothing
The Roma community in and around Marseille is the latest group at the receiving end of the steamroller tactics of the French gendarmerie, who on Friday began to expel thousands said to be living illegally in France. But our own government’s approach to immigration is hardly more progressive. Corin Faife examines the British tradition of how to do your dirty work with a smiling face.Arts & Culture, Theatre - Monday, August 23, 2010 20:56 - 0 Comments
Theatre Review: The Great Game (Tricycle Theatre)
The Great Game is a mini-cycle of plays that is intense, powerful and evocative. As it enters the last week of its London run, before a move accross the Atlantic, Lucy Shaw went to see it.
Politics, South of The Border - Monday, August 23, 2010 18:05 - 0 Comments
South of The Border: The view from Latin America
In the news this week in Latin America: Protests in Honduras, police officers arrested in Mexico, Fidel Castro's new career as a columnist and much more. Ceasefire correspondent, Tom Kavanagh, gives his weekly report on what's been going on south of the border...
Arts & Culture, Theatre - Sunday, August 22, 2010 21:08 - 0 Comments
Theatre Review: All My Sons (Apollo Theatre)
The latest production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons is a "revival of a revival", by the same team that produced its previous National Theatre staging in 2000. It is a tale of two grieving parents (David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker) of a World War II pilot assumed dead in combat seven years previously, who have to face up to the truth of their past over the course of a single day. The production has received impressively unanimous critical acclaim. Gareth King went to see it and discovered why.
