Sarfraz Manzoor, presenter of The Graduate. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian The Graduate (Radio 4) is a great idea, following the fortunes of four people who graduated from university last year. Yesterday’s programme focused on the first six months, hovering over the moments when the real world presented itself to them. “It’s not the [...]

Happily ever after: Fairy Jobmother Hayley Taylor attempts to get Barking family Stephen, Tara and Lynda Phillips off the dole. Photograph: Richard Ansett It’s a shame David Cameron went to America last week. For many reasons, including the fact that he got to kick Scotland again, but chief among them the fact that he couldn’t [...]

A scene from Avatar, the biggest grossing movie of all time. Photograph: 20th Century Fox One was the year of A Clockwork Orange and decimalisation. The other was that of Avatar and the shattered economy. But while 1971 and 2009 were wildly different in terms of the technological limits of the films on offer, new [...]