Blame it on the girls
Meet Mika: a perfectly bi-lingual popstar with an interesting story to tell about his song "Blame it on the girls".
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Meet The Kooks
Meet British band "The Kooks" and discover their lyrics in French and English.
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Hipster Glasses
We no longer wear glasses to see better. We wear glasses to be seen in a certain way.
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Shakespeare in German
German theatres host more Shakespeare plays every year than British theatres. Why this affinity for Shakespeare in Germany?
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Finds in translation
Only three per cent of books published in the UK every year are originally written in another language. It's time the British publishing industry stopped ignoring the rest of the world.
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Philosophy in schools
British schools do not teach philosophy. Maybe that is about to change.
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French pop : English language
In the last three years there has been a rise in the number of French artists choosing to sing in English, despite quotas requiring at least 40% of music played on radio stations to be in French. It means English-language artists automatically compete with international acts for airplay.
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The Cost of 911
The Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks by al-Qaida were meant to harm the United States, and they did, but in ways that Osama Bin Laden probably never imagined. President George W. Bush's response to the attacks compromised America's basic principles, undermined its economy, and weakened its security.
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Books are dead
If you needed any more proof that the age of books is over, take a look at these alarming style changes at Ikea: the furniture manufacturer’s iconic BILLY bookcase is becoming deeper. Why? Because Ikea is noticing that customers no longer buy them for books.
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Thinktanks crush democracy
We know that to understand politics and the peddling of influence we must follow the money. So it's remarkable that the question of who funds the thinktanks has so seldom been asked
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Collaborations between artists and scientists
Science and art are often considered opposites – so what happens when top practitioners in each field collaborate? The results, finds Stuart Jeffries, can be seismic.
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VIDEO: Johnny Depp/Hunter S. Thompson Film
The Rum Diary is the second novel by Hunter S. Thompson. Written in the late 50s, but refused at the time by many publishers, it was not published until 1998. Today, it is a major film starring Johnny Depp.
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The decade’s biggest scam
The Los Angeles Timesexamines the staggering sums of moneyexpended on patently absurd domestic "homeland security" projects: $75 billion per year for things such as a Zodiac boat with side-scan sonar to respond to a potential attack on a lake in tiny Keith County, Nebraska, and hundreds of "9-ton BearCat armored vehicles, complete with turret" to guard against things like an attack on DreamWorks in Los Angeles.
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The Pentagon’s grip on Hollywood
Title of the article: New projects, including Kathryn Bigelow’s bin Laden film, show rising pressure on filmmakers to please the...
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The French government’s dark side
"The freedom of the press and the lie of the state." The headline Thursday in the influential newspaper Le Monde was bound to make a big splash.
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