Christina Patterson
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Christina Patterson is a writer and columnist at the Independent. She writes in the comment pages about politics and society, and, elsewhere, about culture and the arts. She has interviewed writers and artists ranging from Martin Amis to Philip Glass and Werner Herzog, and did the first interview after he left office with Gordon Brown. A former director of the Poetry Society, and literary programmer at the Southbank Centre, she has written for the Observer, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, Time, the Spectator and the New Statesman. She’s a regular commentator on radio and TV news programmes, a regular reviewer on the Sky News press preview, and a regular guest on cultural programmes including The Review Show. She has also campaigned to improve standards in nursing in a series of articles in the Independent, by speaking at conferences, and in programmes she has made about nursing for radio and TV.

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Ding Dong: It's Hard Not to Laugh at Murdoch Misfortune

(9) Comments | Posted 18 July 2011 | (01:00)

It isn't very nice to laugh at someone else's misfortune, but sometimes it's an awful lot of fun.
It is, for example, quite hard not to smile, and maybe even to laugh, and maybe even to send out a little tweet to your so-called followers, when you hear a...

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Africa and the Aid Conundrum

(7) Comments | Posted 6 July 2011 | (21:34)

One of the funniest moments in a diary rich in funny moments is, perhaps surprisingly, about international aid. "GB popped up on the nine o'clock news," writes Alastair Campbell in the latest volume of his Downing Street Diaries, "saying he was going to write off all third world debt. Nobody,"...

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