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| Poti: the Hottest Place in the New Cold War Luke Harding: The Black Sea town of Poti has been a port for 2,500 years. But now it has a new claim to fame |
Rage, Booze, Snot and a Lovely Moment Involving a Jug: is This the Most Russian Film Ever Made? William Leith went to see The Banishment and he was so absorbed his tea went cold before he had the chance to drink it |
| Unfortunate Headgear and Hot Sex: Old Stoners Have It Pretty Good Ben Kingsley does a Blake Fielder-Civil to play a drug-addled prof in The Wackness. Hadley Freeman isn't impressed |
Give the Social Care Minister Some Status David Brindle: According to a 'senior government source' ... care services minister Ivan Lewis needs to shut his trap |
| Foreigners Make the Best of the Food They Have. We Take Something Perfectly Good and Destroy It Michele Hanson: Almost the entire world cooks better than us, notably Soweto slum dwellers and the French |
Is the Bbc Anti-men? Jane Martinson: Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman claims 'The worst thing you can be in this industry is a middle-class... |
| Oh, Dave, You've Got It All So Wrong, Boyo Carole Cadwalladr: David Cameron's problem isn't with his reading of Gavin and Stacey, it's with his reading of everything... |
Who Deserves to Get a Slice of Bbc's Action? Peter Preston: Should the BBC keep all of the license fee billions? Will Channel Four get a £100m sliver of the action? |
| Jungle Fever Alice O'Keeffe meets the women from Farc's female troops who have given up the revolution |
Paint It Black In Tropic Thunder, Robert Downey Jr plays a white movie star playing a black soldier. John Patterson explains why racial... |
| Public Baths, Tiled Spittoons and How to Save Britannia's Waves Ian Jack: Once the English were the world's best swimmers, and the nation swimming-mad |
Why Edinburgh Looks Better in the Rain Simon Hoggart: There is something curiously satisfying about seeing a street mime with water streaming from his hair |
| Clash Over Plan to Save Tropical Forests Developing countries and human rights groups will clash today at a key UN climate change meeting intended to arrest the... |
Gary Glitter Has Served His Time. So is It Right That He Can Now Be Subjected to Any Degree of Persecution? Alexander Chancellor: The media will give him no peace. He may well decide that life in a Vietnamese prison was better |
| Overseas, Overpaying and Over Here International students don't just increase the bank balances of British universities, says John Sutherland - the exchange... |
TV Matters Mark Lawson: Viewers of the thrilling action pictures from the Beijing Olympics may not realize that they are part of the... |
| Analysis: the Baa Breakup Will breaking BAA up deliver better results? In the short term no one is expecting a magic wand to be waved and the various... |
Edinburgh Festival: Fantastic Four Vie for Comedy Prize Brian Logan: The if.comedy judges have nominated a cheery bunch of contenders for the coveted trophy. Surely Rhod Gilbert... |
| The Myth of the Oil Crisis An open discussion into the true about oil and the constant global need for it. |
Xinjiang Plays World Human Rights Stepchild to Rock Star Tibet While Tibet has played the role of China's "rock star" to human rights activists around the world, China's... |
| Conspiracy Dreary Secret History: Hitler of the Andes | EastEnders | Sublime Suburbia | Watching You |
Unto the Breach Forget Beckham, go for Shakespeare. |
| Novels That Caught the Spirit of Previous Eras Stuart Jeffries picks the books that defined an era |
Olympics: A Peek at the Medal Table Eases China's Pain Liu Xiang's withdrawal may give life to the endangered notion that sport is not only about winning, writes Jonathan Watts |
| Suits You, Steve Is there a relation between the quality of the threads Steve Carell sports and the quality of the film he's in? Probably not... |
Slightly Posh and Rather Brut Mary Archer: My Life with Jeffrey | Coronation Street |
| Bumpy Ride Ahead on Road to Power Analysis: Jason Burke on how Pakistan is poised in a post-Musharraf era |
The Kitchen Has Always Been the Epicentre of Turmoil and Relationship Breakdown. I Should Know Michele Hanson: There's usually only one person to argue with in the bedroom, but the whole world can come poking its nose... |
| All Holocaust Films Share One Major Stumbling Block: Fat Mark Herman gets most things right in his movie set in a Nazi concentration camp. There's one problem: he can't actually... |
With First Names, It's Always Better to Give Than to Receive Lucy Rock defends her daughter's name while Norman Lebrecht counts himself lucky |
| The Race to Be the Fourth Party Matters More Than You Think Rafael Behr: Westminster is not about to be taken over by environmentalists or fascists, but the Greens versus BNP is of... |
The Gold for Hypocrisy Goes to the Bbc Carole Cadwalladr: Is it just coincidence that of the 437 BBC staff members dispatched to Beijing, Gabby Logan was the only... |
| Chancellor Doesn't Seem Overly Unsettled By the Chill in the Air Heather Stewart: Weather forecasts are notoriously unreliable, but Mervyn King and Alistair Darling seem to be living in... |
From the Mouths of Morons in the Media Ben Goldacre: There's not exactly a whole bunch of news going on right now |
| Industrial Miracle of a Scottish Wasteland Given Up for Dead Ian Jack: Steel parts now come in boxes like Ikea furniture, but the shipyards are coming back to life |
Nothing Ruder Than a Tudor Nancy Banks-Smith on The Tudors | EastEnders |
| Royal Rebel Ros Coward: Do Prince Charles's views deserve to be derided as green-ink ravings, or is he a green hero for our times? |
Cops and Bombers Duncan Campbell: Could Hugh Orde, the Northern Ireland police chief denounced for advocating talks with terrorists, soon be... |
| Our Economy's Crumbling. We Need to Spend Our Way Out Will Hutton: Brown's and New Labour's greatest asset - their reputation for economic competence - is taking a beating |
As a Father, Why I Fear for My Son and My Community Akin Ojumu: David Cameron was criticized for talking about the role of black fathers but there was truth in what he said |
| Intervention in Triplicate Michael White: It isn't the best of weeks to be publishing another youth crime action plan. But then, it never is |
What Have We Learned? Max Mosley Isn't a Nazi - and Britain Has Had a Privacy Law All Along Alexander Chancellor: If it had been true, even Nazi fantasies aren't inimical to efficient formula one management |
| A Little Bit of Sex Education Never Hurt Anyone Barbara Ellen: If you really want to depress yourself, try spying on your teenage daughter's Facebook page |
Is This the Last Gasp for Big Screen Smoking? Films that feature cigarettes look set to come with a health warning. But a clutch of recent releases have puffed away... |
| Outburst Makes Matters Worse Simon Tisdall: Long-suppressed British anger over international community's failure to curb Mugabe bursts into the open |
Despite Mugabe's Hatred of British Colonialism, the Road He Lives in is Still Named After My Grandfather Alexander Chancellor: I don't like having even the most tenuous family association with a man who spends his time starving... |
| Keep Your Donkey Punches. I Like a Nice French Kiss Good food, arty chat, hesitant driving, a nice vase. If only all films were as dull as Summer Hours |
Cigarettes Might Be Disgusting, But These Days They Are a Great Way to Bond With Other People Alexander Chancellor: Nowadays smokers gravitate instinctively to each other for they feel at ease in each other's company |
| Hoping to Hit Lib Dems Hard in Henley Michael White: Mayor Johnson's departure formally starts a brisk, three-week by election battle to inherit his idyllic patch |
Getting Away With Birth Baby Mama is a parade of cliches but, like its central character, let someone else take the load and just relax into its... |
| Central Issues at Heart of Mounting All Black Pressure An under-pressure coach and a misfiring midfield has heaped problems on New Zealand's Tri Nations campaign, writes Paul Rees |
In Defeat, in Denial Leader: Allegedly 'in shock' over election results, Mugabe's government deliberates over how to keep the opposition from... |
| Kicking Out a King Leader: Nepal's remarkable, unstoppable transition to republican democracy |
Put This in Your Pipe and Smoke It John Patterson on film : Pineapple Express knows the essential truth about pothead movies: if you have to be stoned to... |
| Hail, Hail, Rock'n'roll Laura Barton: Van Morrison's TB Sheets doesn't so much play as ooze. It's monstrously powerful. I can't think of a more... |
As Economic Troubles Bite, Italian Holidaymakers Are Turning Against the Super-rich. It's About Time Alexander Chancellor: Most Italians are already feeling the squeeze; and not only their own squeeze, but other people's as... |
| Pick of the Day Phil Daoust on This Is a True Story |
At Long Last, Ea Gives Us Reasons to Be Cheerful Keith Stuart: Electronic Arts now sees its studios as autonomous city-states, allowing them to retain creative freedom |
| Is the Kindle Ebook Reader Becoming Amazon's Ipod? Jack Schofield: Replacing a printed newspaper could be the key to success for the bestselling electronic reader |
Public Bodies Will Have to Watch Their It Spending Michael Cross: The people allocating £13bn to IT have a special duty to demonstrate publicly that they're acting wisely |
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