Recommended readings for Café Conversations
- Tristram Hunt Lest we forget Guardian 24 July 2006
- Naima Bouteldja and Stuart Hodkinson The contest for memory Guardian 17 May
- Chris Bickerton France's History Wars Le Monde Diplomatique February 2006
Further readings:
- History Matters - Pass it on
- Niall Ferguson The Myopia of Hindsight Los Angeles Times 21 August 2006
- Stephen Fry The future's in the past Observer 09 July 2006
- Fiachra Gibbons Musée des bogus arts Guardian 03 July 2006
- Alexandra Smith Children should study history until 16, Conservatives say Guardian 15 June 2006
- Felipe Fernández-Armesto The Spanish Civil War The Times Literary Supplement 31 May 2006
- Laszlo F. Földenyi An uprising twice suppressed Sign and Sight 23 January 2006
The Happiness Trap
- David Wearing The Politics of Happiness Le Monde Diplomatique July 2006
- Frank Furedi Politicians, teachers, economists...why are they so desperate to make us happy? Daily Telegraph 7 May 2006
- Focus: Can you teach happiness? The Sunday Times 23 April 2006
Further
- Andrew G. Marshall I love you but I am not in love with you Bloomsbury 2006
- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Eight Steps to Happiness (The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness) Tharpa 2000
- Michael Bywater Don't make me laugh. MPs can't make us happy Independent 28 May 2006
- Minette Marrin The dangerous business of happiness The Sunday Times 18 June 2006
- Polly Toynbee It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative Guardian 16 June 2006
- Richard Layard Happiness is back Prospect Magazine March 2005
- Sarah Boseley Depression is UK's biggest social problem, government told Guardian 28 April 2006
Can the book survive soundbites and texting?
- John Clare Paradise is lost as Milton enters the mobile phone age Daily Telegraph 17 November 2005
- Hester Lacey The tyranny of reading Guardian 17 August 2005
- Brenda Despontin When a teacher turns into a mouse The Times 8 May 2006
Further readings:
- Stephen Johnson Everything bad is good for you Penguin 2006
- Rachel Cooke Who is going to save our libraries? The silence is deafening Observer 11 June 2006
- Philip Pullman A treasure house for Moomins, Biggles and well-thumbed pages The Times 25 March 2006
- Dr Andrew Cunningham 2015: the year literacy finally died Daily Telegraph 30 July 2005
- Franco Moretti Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abtract models for a Literacy Theory Verso 2005
Should footballers be role models?
- Catherine Bennett Rooney beats Blunkett as role model Guardian 05 May 2005
- Oona King What we need is a Muslim Rooney Daily Telegraph 09 July 2006
- Mick Hume Football is not a matter of life and death – it’s less important than that The Times 17 May 2004
Further readings:
- Ignacio Ramonet Planetary goals Le Monde Diplomatique June 2006
- Simon Barnes Rooney ready to bare teeth – and bite The Times 29 June 2006
- Kofi Annan Football envy at the UN Guardian, 12 June 2006
- David Conn Blatter Signals start of cultural revolution Guardian 07 June 2006
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- Sue Mott Taking the F out of football Daily Telegraph 08 March 2005
- Kevin Mitchell No honour among the thieves of football’s credibility Observer 07 March 2004
- Tim Parks A Season with Verona
Does every child really matter?
- David Clements Shattered Lives - Children Who Live with Courage and Dignity Culture Wars 04 August 2006
- Josie Appleton Losing touch Guardian 09 February 2005
- Eileen Munro This Would Not Have Saved Victoria Guardian 10 September 2003
Further readings:
- Jill Kirby The Nationalisation of Childhood 2006 (pdf)
- Mick Hume Sarah’s Law, Sven’s Law, Lynch Law … It’s the Law of the Desperate Politician The Times 23 June 2006
- Nigel Reynolds Why political correctness is killing off our swans Telegraph 07 November 2005
- Lewine Mair and Becky Barrow Code denies youngsters their sporting chance Telegraph 07 June 2005
- Eileen Munro & Martin Calder Where Has Child Protection Gone? The Political Quarterly Publishing Co Ltd 2005 (pdf)
- Dave Clements What happens when the conversation ends? Guardian 23 April 2004
- Every Child Matters Department for Education and Skills
- Every Child Matters publications Department for Education and Skills
Reclaiming the olympic spirit
- Mick Hume Whoever thought the Olympics in 2012 were anything to do with sport? The Times 09 December 2005
- Nick Cohen Marks, get set, eat...: The problem of obese children is conveniently ignored when it comes to sponsorship of the 2012 Games Observer 13 November 2005
- Richard Morrison The real reason I'm backing this costly sporting jamboree The Times 04 July 2005
- Mike Lee The Race for the 2012 Olympics Virgin 2006
- Peter Hamlyn Quest for Olympic medals can start nation's race for life - Investment in sport crucial to combat the inactivity that kills in huge numbers Daily Telegraph 23 December 2005
- Michael Durham London’s field of dreams Independent 21 March 2005
- David Brooks Olympic farce Daily Standard 02 August 2002
- Nigel Spivey The Ancient Olympics: War Minus the Shooting