Simon Taylor

I was reading Norman Manea’s A Hooligan’s Return, about the exiled writer’s return to Romania. His book On Clowns remains my favourite. In fact, I quoted from it extensively in a letter advocating state patronage of the arts to Helen Clark in her first term as Prime

In the 1920s, youth were a rising force throughout Europe. Besides, according to Klaus Mann, “the European generation that had grown up during the First World War” was highly sensitive to the existing “moral and social crisis,” the general crisis of European values. The war and the national revolutions it

NATIONAL: 2008: Arts, Culture & Heritage Policy by Christopher Finlayson, Arts, Culture and Heritage 15 July 2008 ARTS, CULTURE & HERITAGE ENCOURAGING THE ARTS – ENCOURAGING OUR ARTISTS – Was Weist der Aisel von Mord, Attila Richard Lukacs, 1988 National values arts, culture, and heritage. We value them equally. We value the

– cover art for eponymously titled album, flipside

There’s something to be said for a country of approximately 4 million people who want to hold a national election as if it were a US presidential race – to which at times it actually referred. Prime Minister Helen Clark in her concession speech played the ‘gracious in defeat’ role

* Labour + Greens = a short step to communism * Helen Clark has been in too long = it’s time for a change * a coalition headed by Helen Clark = a five-headed monster => a Clark government = a monster * Kyoto = NZ loses in the race for global trade * Labour’s foreign policy = no FTA