I think I met him first on a 24 bus coming through the West End. ‘Look, look,’ he said, ‘all those marvellous bookshops, doesn’t it make your heart glad?’ I nodded and made a long erm sound. But the truth was I couldn’t care a toss about books. I’d just…
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Capitalism
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Visions and Nightmares: The Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger
Reviewed by Jon Elsby The Visionaries bears the subtitle “Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy”, which suggests a possible kinship with other recent publications – for example, Metaphysical Animals by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman, Benjamin Lipscomb’s The Women Are Up To Something, and Nikhil Krishnan’s…
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How to celebrate the Day of the Dead
… and a calavera for the selfish By Phil Hall So you have lived deep and extracted all the sweetness out of life, and you have had your last meal. But, what food and drink would you like people to remember you by? What wafting smell would have the power to…
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A Retrospect on The Three Tenors
by Jon Elsby Just about everyone old enough to remember the football World Cups of the 1990s and early 2000s will remember the Three Tenors. The open air concerts they gave, cleverly timed to coincide with those World Cups, converted Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras from operatic superstars…
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Mandala
My march through the relative silence of nine years Has brought me to a small house With a green garden Two daughters A son and A wife. Where are my brothers? Where are my parents? Where are my uncles and cousins? Not to mention aunts? They are gone. Vanished. Transformed…
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TV situation comedy – a Tory secret weapon?
By Paul Halas A favourite saying amongst Tories, not least the late demented Margaret Thatcher, is that the Conservatives are the natural party of government in the UK. Simply in terms of incumbency that statement is just about correct: since the end of the Second World War, when regular TV…
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