Time to take a bow Madonna
/ 25 August 2008

Time to take a bow Madonna

One would have to be a determined news avoider not to know that Madonna has turned 50. Never mind that life expectancies have risen in the developed world, and living to one’s half-century is not the achievement it once was; this is Madonna’s half-century, and attention must be paid. The interesting thing, however, is how […]

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/ 21 September 2007

Dyeing for the cause

There are days when even the World’s Most Wanted Man looks in the mirror and just feels like the world’s most unwanted man. He stares at his grey beard, sighs wearily at a FedEx-ed package of cave-floor carpet samples Mullah Omar wants him to pick between, and thinks: is there some sharia law loophole that means I could hang out with Scarlett Johansson for a few days, as long we just laugh at funny little Japanese people together and don’t get it on?