The unrest that began in 2011 will go on. From Istanbul to Rio, it’s about the nature of the state.
Putin may have more serious critics, but Pussy Riot have shown the west how artistic dissent can still make a difference
He turns 70 this month and yet Bob Dylan remains
a mystery.
It’s hard not to agree with the argument that digital media is making us stupid, writes <strong>John Harris</strong>.
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/ 21 November 2009
Unless they end in promises, and a treaty within months, British energy secretary Ed Miliband believes the Copenhagen talks will be a disaster.
According to <i>Vanity Fair</i> magazine, he is "the man of the hour" — photographed by Annie Leibovitz at Iceland’s Jökulsárlón glacier and pictured on the cover. Leonardo DiCaprio is the Upper West Side’s new green poster boy, and in the ensuing pictorial portfolio his fellow "global citizens" line up behind him: ex-<i>Seinfeld</i> star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alanis Morissette and Jack Johnson.
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/ 23 December 2005
November saw the launch of an initiative, Open Bethlehem — intended to help rescue this town, at least, among all the towns on the West Bank facing isolation and collapse. By spreading word of Bethlehem’s surprising calm and the endlessly hospitable spirit that has made pilgrims welcome for centuries, the campaigners hope to encourage visitors to return.
Charity singles improve the world in many ways — but not when they’re pure torture to listen to, writes John Harris in London.
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/ 21 January 2005
Before we get too misty-eyed with Live Aid nostalgia, remember what Queen got up to just months before. In 1985 they broke the United Nations’s cultural boycott and played gigs in apartheid South Africa, writes John Harris.