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2 weeks ago | 
observer.co.uk | Kate Mossman
Photographs Pål HansenI knew that Ravneet Gill and Mattie Taiano’s new restaurant was not quite finished but had no idea it was a hard hat situation. At 92 Station Road, Chingford, electrics hang from the ceiling like vines. Workmen slalom through the kitchen with refrigerator units boxed up on trolleys. Gill and Taiano are swabbing the steel worktops with a pack of industrial-strength Big Wipes.
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2 weeks ago | 
afr.com | Kate Mossman
Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statementWhen I met Patti Smith soon after Donald Trump’s first victory, she said she’d ended up next to him at various New York dinners over the years, back in the ’70s, when he was pitching Trump Towers.
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3 weeks ago | 
newstatesman.com | Kate Mossman
When I met Patti Smith soon after Donald Trump’s first victory, she said she’d ended up next to him at various New York dinners over the years, back in the Seventies, when he was pitching Trump Towers. “We were born in the same year, and I have to look at this person and think: all our hopes and dreams from childhood, going through the Sixties, everything we went through – and that’s what came out of our generation.
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1 month ago | 
internazionale.it | Kate Mossman
Vladimir Putin di solito arriva in ritardo alle sedute plenarie, e in occasione del Forum Artico internazionale russo di fine marzo si è presentato quaranta minuti prima dei collegamenti di Steve Rosenberg con News at six e con il canale Radio 4 della Bbc. “Siccome in questo momento sono l’unica persona della Bbc in Russia, sono costantemente reperibile, ed è stancante”, dice Rosenberg in tono gioviale, collegato su Zoom da una stanza dalle pareti bianche a Mosca.
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1 month ago | 
newstatesman.com | Kate Mossman
Fifteen years after he left 10 Downing Street, Gordon Brown still has people who turn up at his gates: fanatical followers, disciples of his economics who, like all fans, feel they understand him so well they can improve on his work. One man came from Australia, called to Brown by a dream, to tinker with one of his fiscal ideas. North Queensferry is hot and still at 9am on a Thursday morning in April and the Firth of Forth is shining so bright you can’t look at it head on.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Kate Mossman
Young musicians have so little to say. Give me a rocker in his later years any day. Ask him about his childhood, his relationship with his mum, his painful lifelong love affair with his lead guitarist. Many belong to a specific anthropological group: born after the war, they got their first guitars on hire purchase and went on to date the aristocracy.
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1 month ago | 
newstatesman.com | Kate Mossman
At some point in the unreconstructed noughties, I read an article about the differences in the way men and women listen to music. I recall it very well. It suggested that men listen to melodies and women listen to lyrics; that men had huge record collections and women had fewer albums, which they loved more; that men liked to argue over “boring things” like time signatures and key changes, while women had a more instinctive connection with the way music made them feel.
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2 months ago | 
observer.co.uk | Kate Mossman
Rick and Jack Stein on £2.80 lobster thermidor, throwing customers out of restaurants, and why they don’t care about Michelin stars Portraits by Phil FiskFood Photography by James MurphyThe Stein family might have built an empire on fish but they’re not so good at catching it. Rick and his three sons, Edward, Jack and Charlie – all now in their forties – take an annual trip to some watery idyll each year, but they failed to catch a salmon in Iceland, which most can do blindfolded.
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2 months ago | 
newstatesman.com | Kate Mossman
V ladimir Putin is generally late to the stage for plenary sessions, and at the Arctic Forum in late March he turned up 40 minutes before Steve Rosenberg’s broadcasts for the News at Six and Radio 4. “And because I’m the only BBC person here now, I’m constantly on call, and it’s quite tiring, you know…” Rosenberg says, brightly, on Zoom from a white room in Moscow.
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2 months ago | 
newstatesman.com | Kate Mossman
Pop music is often thought to be a rehearsal for adult experience – a space in which teenagers explore the complicated shades of romantic feeling they haven’t yet met in the world. I think it can be something else, though – a form of regressive longing, taking you back to your earliest feelings of love. It is part of an adolescent’s job experience to regress like this – to seek some rejuvenating return to childhood feelings amid all the confusion.
