BLASTS FROM THE PAST

This movie having no age restriction, parents - and one could surmise, grandparents - might be tempted to take the little 'uns for some safe immersion, daubing and wallowing in a huge bubble-bath of "safe" pop music ...

NORTHERN LIGHTS
By Katy Chance
As a secular being, perhaps I'm not fully qualified to say this, but what the hell: Christmas belongs to the northern hemisphere. There's something about crisply cold, if sunny, afternoons - which rudely become night at 4 pm in a Europ...

BEHIND THE HEADLINES
By Richard Steyn
George Orwell, the most influential political writer of the previous century, wrote that "during times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act". Timothy Garton Ash, Oxford and Stanford don and veteran pra...

SEARCH FOR QUALITY
By JUSTICE MALALA
The problem with looking forward to the New Year is that you start worrying that it will be a bit like January 2008. You know, rolling blackouts, denials that anything is wrong and, of course, one's neighbours quietly sneaking off to Aus...