Rob BlackhurstRainbow Blues
Observations on life in a suburb of Capetown as South Africa goes to the polls.
Tagged: New Statesman
Posted at 00:00 BST, 1st April 2009.
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FT: Speed The Plough - The Archers and Rural Life
Interview with the Graham Harvey, the Agricultural Storyline Editor of the Archers.
Tagged: Financial Times Reportage , Interviews for the Financial Times
Posted at 00:00 GMT, 1st March 2009.
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Financial Times: Our Man In South Ealing
he Eritrean Ambassador to the Court of St James's could be forgiven for suffering from bouts of Embassy envy.
Tagged: Financial Times Reportage
Posted at 00:00 BST, 1st October 2008.
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New Statesman Book Review: Reasons To Be Fearful
The World of Atomic Weaponry
Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger
Bloomsbury, 336pp, £12.99
Tagged: Book Reviews
Posted at 00:00 BST, 5th August 2008.
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FT Magazine Cover Story: A Rhapsody in Blue
How did the Young Conservatives Shake Off Their Tory Boy image?
Though the Watford Gap in Northamptonshire is famously the place where the north begins, it has been suggested that a more evocative frontier would be the Cheshire town of Crewe. Here, the foreboding skies, flat vowels and redbrick Victorian hotels are unmistakably the north of the imagination – a place where, traditionally, the Labour vote has been weighed rather than counted.
Tagged: Financial Times Reportage
Posted at 00:00 BST, 4th August 2008.
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New Statesman Book Review: Reasons to be Fearful
The spectre of atomic weapons has been replaced in the popular imagination by that of climate change - yet two defence analysts convincingly argue that another nuclear catastrophe is as likely as ever
the World of Atomic Weaponry
Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger
Bloomsbury, 336pp, £12.99
31 July 2008
Tagged: Book Reviews
Posted at 00:00 BST, 31st July 2008.
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Lunch with the FT Ronnie Wood
Wednesday 9 July 2008
The Saddle Room, The Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin
12 Clare Atlantic Oyster – 33.00
Sea Food Platter
½ lobster tail, 4 Jumbo Prawn, 4 Oysters and Lobsters and Crab Cocktail
– 44.00
3 Espresso – 13.50
Total due: £90.50
Tagged: Interviews for the Financial Times
Posted at 00:00 BST, 9th July 2008.
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FT Weekend Magazine: A Class Apart
It's 11 o'clock on Tuesday morning. Throughout Britain, school bells are ringing and corridors are pressed with shrieking teenagers on their way from geography to double science. Excuses are being formulated for late homework; gossip is being shared. But elsewhere, an alternative vision of contemporary British education can be seen. Across kitchen tables and on suburban sofas, in museums and parks, a growing tribe of home-schooled children is learning without whiteboards, timetables or uniforms.
Book Review: Cold Cream - My Early Life and Other Mistakes by Ferdinand Mount
Financial Times, May 2008
Tagged: Book Reviews
Posted at 00:00 BST, 11th May 2008.
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New Statesman: The Accidental Tourist
8th May 2008. Rob Blackhurst books a family break at a Portuguese resort - and finds himself babysitting in Praia da Luz
Tagged: New Statesman
Posted at 12:00 BST, 8th May 2008.
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