Hermione Eyre

Hermione Eyre: Oh, for a bit of tinsel on the stage

We seem unable to find a modern idiom for onstage enchantment

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Hermione Eyre: In vain pursuit of punctuality

Thursday, 13 November 2008

Obama was early, Sarkozy late. It takes grace to be bang on time

Hermione Eyre: From behind Obama, I could see a girl moved to tears ...

Tuesday, 4 November 2008

A Limey busybody, I joined the ranks of campaign volunteers

Hermione Eyre: If you don't think philosophy can make you happy, you haven't read Seneca

Wednesday, 3 September 2008

How do you fit everything in? There's so much out there. Every day the paper recommends another film you mustn't miss, a book you have to read. Every article leads to a link to another; every TV programme ends with a trailer. Missing a programme isn't an excuse any more. You can catch everything again online. Every day ends too soon; isn't life desperately short for living?

Hermione Eyre: Nonsense? At least the Tories are thinking

Thursday, 14 August 2008

Let's be clear: the Policy Exchange's suggestion that certain northern cities are not worth regenerating is pure, steaming nonsense. Government funding should be used to correct the gravitational pull of money and commerce to the south, not to reinforce it. But however ill-judged that particular report may be, and however much bad publicity it has caused for David Cameron (closely allied with the Policy Exchange, he was a guest speaker there in July) it is a sign of something good: the Tories are thinking.

Hermione Eyre: Uncaring, unethical – and a risk to us all

Monday, 4 August 2008

Compelling as it is to discuss David Miliband's little finger (isn't the way he waves his hands about just so Blair?), there are other issues that the party political personality contest should not completely obscure. Yesterday we learnt what Alan Johnson would rather we didn't know: that government policy on healthcare access for failed asylum-seekers is worryingly out of step with medical opinion. The more you look at the scheme, the more you think it is out of step with common sense as well.

Hermione Eyre: Cool title, but what does it mean?

Friday, 16 May 2008

The Government has pledged to build three million extra homes by 2020, but how can this be done without concreting over the countryside? This question has been worrying me, as it must worry anyone who likes grass, and thinks some of it should still be visible in the South-east. So I went along to a lecture on this topic at the Royal Geographical Society this week, where the message was sent out loud and clear: Worry not. We can do it.

Hermione Eyre: How did exploiting teenage girls become acceptable?

Thursday, 24 April 2008

A giant pole was raised outside Parliament on Tuesday. Sadly, it wasn't a maypole. It was a pole of the type that women gyrate around, semi-clothed, for money, and it was an angry stunt by women's campaign group Object ("challenging Sex Object Culture") to raise awareness of the fact that we now have twice as many of these poles in this country as we did three years ago. Yes, lap-dancing clubs have doubled since the Licensing Law 2003 came into effect in 2005, and Britain is a grubbier and less safe place for it. Meanwhile the BBC isn't helping stem the filth, either.

Hermione Eyre: A catcall is not only sexist, it's bad for business

Sunday, 6 April 2008

Builders working on Wimpey construction sites across Bristol were banned last week from wolf-whistling. Was this a spoilsport piece of petty bureaucracy, or a fillip for women's rights?

Hermione Eyre: The night I dared not let my Oscars pass out of my sight

Saturday, 23 February 2008

Why do we care about the Oscars? Why indeed. Just take a look at the news this week. Devastation here. Extortion there. A toppling Chancellor, a tippling Mayor. And a brand new serial killer. It couldn't get more depressing if someone was ripping me off every month in my gas bill.