Mother Courage at the NT in Dec, all I can say is Fiona Shaw!!!. Where is her dame hood?. The profiteering from war still goes on. Although it is on a much larger scale than mother courage could ever have imagined. Lets see what cultural offerings await us in 2010, hopefully a new TT album, an Ani Difranco tour, a decent book by Winterson and a worthy Booker prize winner.