Author: KB
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Liverpool Nativity
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I just watched the Liverpool Nativity on BBC3 tonight, and it was quite brilliant. This was no cynical re-telling, but a contemporary, serious, politically aware take on the Christmas narrative, writ large as public spectacle. Thousands and thousands had turned out to the Dockside to join the spectacle, performed live throughout the city. What is…
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The World Can’t Wait For You, USA
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[Update: following extraordinary scenes where the US contingent were booed by the rest of the delegates when it was announced they would reject the compromised plan, they performed a dramatic U-turn and have agreed to adopt the ‘road-map’ (wouldn’t ‘path way’ be greener?!). A huge relief. Now we just need some non-automobile metaphors :-] Gore…
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God is a Londoner: Time Out
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The usually so-antagonistic-its-almost-funny Time Out seem to have mellowed this year. They gave Greenbelt a great write-up as the ‘best family festival’ and this week have an actually really good series of pieces on religious London: Muslim speed-dating, living in a London monastery, Kensington Temple and a trip behind the scenes at the stunning Shri…
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“cos, you know, you can treat them like shit”
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On the train to this little drinks thing for an education weekly I write some stuff for, just a couple of stops. Three guys sitting in seats across the aisle: “So, we go from the pub to the match, and then from there onto another pub, and I’m so wasted by now, and then we…
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Bethlehem Speaks in Many Tongues… ¦ Wi’am
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The wonderfully monickered Zoughbi Zoughbi, director of the fantastic Wi’am Palestinian Conflict Resolution Centre in Bethlehem just sent me this short meditation: Every homeless refugee, desperate for a bed for a night, understands the agony of Joseph of Bethlehem. Every frightened teenage girl, pregnant and lost, comprehends the bewilderment of Mary. Every executive, trying to…