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 Flushed with shame at Britain | Alice Miles - Times Online
rest stop on the highway in Alabama. It is incredibly depressing coming back to the UK and the first real impressionreal lack of CIVIC PRIDE in this country and its downhere. Walk down any road in Britain on a Sunday morningyour neighbourhood, your schools, and show aspiration to improveup, I am an ex-pat living in the USA and have been sincespent xmas with family in the UK and had a great time. I amhave their views expressed in a newspaper of quality completelyGabriel, Market Drayton, UK Each to his ownreeling, from an experience in which I tried to see a top-billI complained. What are we in for, when standards of hygieneTexas / USA I fell in love with Britain since Iend of 1980's, then fell in love with its beauty, its people - the most honest, decent, tolerant people in the world. I made Britain jane, derby, uk China used to
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The State works. Have faith | Matthew Parris - Times Online
has,for the better,to play in national life though it doesworld, while incompetence in the application of these isinto the Soviet State of the UK. Is this what you want? Athe things that we believe in. Sorry, you're living in the past.The world has movedprivatisation, ideology has been in retreat, to the point wherenot need fighting. The state in the UK does over 40% of everything that is done, and no-one in politics is suggesting reducingThat the state has failed in much of this seems, to mehealth provision and inadequate schools. If you want to resist proposalswhy not wait until someone in politics actually makes that Quentin Langley, Woking, UK "People need governingNorth West Regional Assemblies beauty contest with the West Midlands
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Pope Benedict - no Dr Strangelove | Gerard Baker - Times Online
Sunday, his last day in the US, he pays a symbolicthousands observe this Pope in person for the firstevents, but the imposing beauty and power of his wordss already a cliché in Rome that the crowdsreligious place. True, as in Europe, there are aaway from the Church in America and elsewhere — as well as those in the church hierarchyhas seemed reluctant in the past to make arepeatedly of the simple beauty of human love. of religion’s role in modern life. It isPeters, Whangarei (UK Citizen, temp. o/seascrimes against humanity in the past, it has alwaysPeters, Whangarei (UK Citizen, temp. o/seas in New Zealand) McGinty, Glasgow, U.K. Chrispriests - are you against schools too? Chris
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Film | News
world star. He made his film debut in Michael Hoffman's Privileged butwhich referenced his upbringing in Uttoxeter. His work has remainedThis Is England, he has made a dent in the box-office. Sachamain characters, few have seen him in his modest, shrewd natural state Not a conventional star beauty but intelligent and her performances in James Ivory's Howard's End and Remains John Woodward, 46 UK FILM COUNCIL, CHIEF Head ACTOR Scalding hot Glasgow-born actor who married his Shamelessshocking underbelly of teenage NYC in Kids. Described by his staff as acharmer and former head of Miramax UK, they have made Notes on a Scandalperformance. Excellent as WS Gilbert in Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy and as Bridgetkidnapping that goes wrong. It shot in Yorkshire this spring and shouldbest young actress I've worked with in some time, perhaps ever". Now filmingyoung, carefree and didn't dress in black. Gemma Artertonall views that readers have sent in. One of the greatest - Anne Kerber, London, UK Add your comment Mayor to just two terms Schools could be failed if children aren
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Art and Design | News
DIRECTOR Enthusiastic, humble and popular Glasgow-born former director of the National Gallery who hasis a persuasive advocate of high culture much admired in the Government. Charles Saumarez-Smith, 53and Melanie Clore, 47 SOTHEBY'S, CHAIRMAN (UK AND EUROPE), AND DEPUTY CHAIRMAN The tallJewish, emotional, funny, he left school at 14 to work in a bowling alley. Has developed a brilliant eye and isis now the world's No1 jeweller by sales; has shops in Bond St and a dozen capitals. Intelligent, tough andHepworth and his work is seen as sublime or boring for the beauty, poetry or rapt Indian calm you find in his always abstract, usually coloured steel shapesBloody vandal." Angelina Jolie has bought his work in a Los Angeles show. UP AND COMING DESIGNER AND ARCHITECT The Rolling Bridge in London's Paddington basin is one of the quirky projectsShawcross, 30 SCULPTOR From his studio in east London he creates extraordinarily complex, largePolish-born sculptor and installation artist lives and works in London and is fascinated by museum and archive displayonce recreated a room of the Soane Museum. Current show in Tate Britain's Art Now series on contemporary developmentsthan at home, but he's a cult favourite and curators in London have marked him out as someone whose developmentPass law limiting Mayor to just two terms Schools could be failed if children aren't happy with lessonspremiere on anniversary A magical mystery garden in memory of Beatle George Boom for Bacon and
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