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Trend alert: puppets will be big in Hollywood this summer
What with Avatar and the ensuing 16 month wave of “tentpole” movies selling their flimsy plot premises on the back of hi-tech 3D jiggery-pokery, it’s comforting to report the imminent arrival of a fresh wave of Hollywood films designed to appeal to the committed luddites among us.
The puppet will be returning to cinemas in a [...]
The Real Experts on Eating Disorders
1.6 million people in the UK suffer from an Eating Disorder. That’s over half the population of Wales.
It’s also almost definitely a massive underestimation; secrecy comes hand in hand with living with an Eating Disorder so many cases go undetected. Many others slip through the net due to mis-diagnosis, naivity and quite simply, a huge [...]
By Ilona Burton | Health, Notebook | Monday, 18 April 2011 at 12:12 am
The real reason Russia lost the Cold War
Lovely trailer for Phil Craig’s The Secret History of Eurovision, on Channel 4, Saturday 7 May.
The Soviet Union’s attempt to imitate the Eurovision Song Contest, Intervision, was hampered by lack of technology. Because most Soviet citizens didn’t have a telephone, voting was done by asking viewers to switch on their lights when their favourite song [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 17 April 2011 at 6:03 pm
How not to die: My guide to safe cycling
The Independent and i have launched Save our Cyclists, a campaign to cut the number of deaths and accidents, particularly those caused in collisions with lorries.
While much can be done to improve safety, it’s easy to be put off by news of death and maiming. Yet, statistically speaking, cycling is safe and getting safer.
Meanwhile, there [...]
By Simon Usborne | Notebook | Sunday, 17 April 2011 at 1:21 pm
“The most worthless votes given for the most worthless candidates”
Just because we can, I thought you might like to read Winston Churchill’s contribution to the debate on the Alternative Vote in 1931, in which he said:
The decision of 100 or more constituencies, perhaps 200, is to be determined by the most worthless votes given for the most worthless candidates.
In The Independent on Sunday today, [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 17 April 2011 at 12:06 pm
Was Prince William a frog in a past life?
Number 587 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No was asked by Save the Frogs, and was also awarded a prize by The Independent on Sunday for the Most Spurious Use of the Royal Wedding in a Press Release:
“Was Prince William a frog in a past life?” asked Save the Frogs in [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 17 April 2011 at 11:21 am
“No” campaign extends lead to 6 points
Our ComRes poll in The Independent on Sunday and Sunday Mirror tomorrow shows the No vote opening up a six-point lead in the referendum campaign.
Since January we have asked the official question, as it will appear on the ballot paper on 5 May:
At present, the UK uses the “first past the post” system to elect [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 16 April 2011 at 7:30 pm
Did Marlene Dietrich plot to murder Hitler?
Now that the Daily Mail has professionalised its operation, its contribution this morning, number 586 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No, is as fine an example of the genre as one could hope to see.
And, as if to illustrate the flexibility of the device, it follows number 585, asked last [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 16 April 2011 at 10:50 am
Poll alert
We have a ComRes poll in tomorrow’s Independent on Sunday, shared with the Sunday Mirror, which has asked a lot of questions about the Coalition, one year on, the Alternative Vote referendum and the royal wedding.
In addition to voting intention in the theoretical general election that might occur tomorrow, and in the referendum on the [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 16 April 2011 at 10:06 am
Doctor Who – a threat to the political and social order?
Number 582 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No is asked by Jonathan Jones at The Guardian. (Christopher Eccleston, Ninth and Best Doctor, right.)
Number 583, as Norman Geras points out, manages both to be a QTWTAIN and to invoke Godwin’s Law in the space of a single headline.
France’s burqa ban: Has [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 16 April 2011 at 8:19 am
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