Christina Patterson
Christina Patterson joined The Independent in 2003 as deputy literary editor and is now a full-time writer and columnist. A former director of the Poetry Society, and literary programmer at the Southbank Centre, she writes on culture, politics, books, travel and the arts and does the weekly "big interview" for the Arts & Books section. Interviewees have included Martin Amis, Alastair Campbell, Werner Herzog, David Starkey and Bryn Terfel.
Christina Patterson: Thanks, Nick, but more choice is not what some parents need
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Christina Patterson: Heaven knows we're miserable now
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Where we used to get a prescription for cold showers or a tonic, now we get one for drugs that kick-start the synapses, drugs which alter the very chemistry of the brain
Christina Patterson: Rarer than a rhino: a woman with true self-confidence
Saturday, 12 June 2010
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Christina Patterson: Here's one saving right in Downing St
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Andy Coulson's salary on recruitment was widely reported to be 'in the region of' £475,000. When I asked No 10 for a firm figure, they refused to give it
Why we are shamed by Robert Boyle's pursuit of knowledge
Saturday, 5 June 2010
Christina Patterson: If you want to get anything done, you need to set some goals. I make lists of them all the time.
Christina Patterson: Give us back our private lives
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
How brave David Laws was to attempt to impose an idea of propriety on our compulsively confessional culture. And how mad he was to think that he could
Christina Patterson: At least this time what you hear is what you get
Saturday, 29 May 2010
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Christina Patterson: We're more stressed than ever, and they've only just begun
Saturday, 22 May 2010
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Christina Patterson: The smile that says you're better off relieved of power
Saturday, 15 May 2010
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Christina Patterson: Cameron & Clegg - consensual, civilised... depressing
Thursday, 13 May 2010
So here we have it. The New Politics. Young, smart, male, white, rich and nearly all privately educated. What more could they have in common?
Christina Patterson: Thanks to the politicians, we're all 'hard-working' now
Saturday, 8 May 2010
The Saturday Column
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