Christina Patterson
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Christina Patterson: We should be celebrating this literary triumph
Friday, 11 July 2008
From the first stroke of midnight, I was hooked. It wasn't midnight, actually. It was just after lunch in a garden in Italy, and the Italian family I was staying with were shuttered inside, asleep. As a sun-starved teenager from Guildford, I wasn't going to waste a wave of sunshine nor a single moment, because the clock had struck, and a character, and a nation, and a passion had been born.
Christina Patterson: Stop making excuses, it's time to get tough
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
Last autumn, in a primary school in Yorkshire, I made a little boy cry. "You need to get a move on," I told him, when presented with the single sentence he had written instead of the entire story I was expecting. "Come on, now, I'm sure you can do a bit better!"
Christina Patterson: There's more to life than irony...
Saturday, 5 July 2008
A generation brought up on Chaucer made sure the next would be brought up on Coleen
Christina Patterson: A sorry tale of sex and the single songbird
Wednesday, 2 July 2008
They're yelling to be heard above the cacophony around them. They're crumbling under the stress of urban life. They're nervous, knackered and incoherent. Yes, this is the urban male in 2008. The urban male songbird. "By trying to sing over the sound of the city, birds are risking vocal injury," said Dr Sue Anne Zollinger from the University of St Andrews. "This could have serious implications on how fit and attractive they're perceived to be by females."
Christina Patterson: Equal opportunities? That's so public sector
Saturday, 28 June 2008
As always, the Government has caved in. We didn't mean you. This is just for the kids
Christina Patterson: Ancient words clash with living cultures
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
The trouble with targets, as headteachers, hospitals and Gordon Brown could tell you, is that they're quite hard to hit. For the truly determined, however, there's always a way. Don't register patients until you're sure you can see them in the allocated time frame. Make A-levels easier. Cut the hurdles and fast-track.
Christina Patterson: Ah, Italy - sunshine, olive oil, blatant racism
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Headlines in the local and national papers screamed about the crime wave unleashed by the 'immigranti'
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