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Dr Ayla Göl 21 tim
A must summer reading: ‘The Beast of Brexit’ Returns!
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‘It was Alan Milburn, Andrew Lansley and Jeremy Hunt who cut off my brother’s finger. The rot in the NHS started a long time ago and, like the finger, it may already be too late to save it.’ on the health service’s ‘postcode lottery’:
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Emma Hogan 19 tim
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Revisiting this LRB piece on Eton:
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London Review of Books 20 tim
The upper classes have long survived in Britain by pretending to be twits who couldn’t harm anyone.
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LRB Bookshop 23 tim
TONIGHT! Poet Morgan Parker will be here to read from her latest collection MAGICAL NEGRO, and chat with Georgina Lawton. Book here:
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James B 23 tim
Boris Johnson's new cabinet, and the appointment of Dominic Cummings, tell us important things about what's going to happen next. I wrote about it for the here:
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David Bradford 23 tim
Astonishing diary piece by Cheli Durán about family stories, those passed on, embellished and concealed "my father seldom talked about the war... because he didn't want to forget the pain"
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London Review of Books 22 tim
Johnson’s party is fractured, his options are few, and his hand is weak.
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London Review of Books 23 tim
'What I was actually interested in was contingency: the way that grand, remote, protected lives, purring along on their own tracks, could suddenly and accidentally cut across mine' locks eyes with the queen:
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Apar Gupta 24 juli
This is one of the smartest pieces of writing that explains the striking "family resemblance" between various global autocrats, and hence the nature of modern authoritarianism.
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Ben Jeffery 24 juli
Among the things to learn in this essay: hardest of hardline Brexitiers Jacob Rees-Mogg "treasures a portrait of Charles I made of hair taken from his chopped-off head." via
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Elisa Gabbert 24 juli
So, I got to review Andrea Lawlor's very fun and good novel PAUL TAKES THE FORM OF A MORTAL GIRL for the , and they gave it the best of all possible titles:
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James B 24 juli
Currently at the demo at Downing Street, but want to know what's next with the Johnson horror? I wrote on it for the
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London Review of Books 24 juli
‘They had felt themselves “possessors” of the Western cultural heritage, but, it turned out, the possession had existed only in their dreams.’ Sheila Fitzpatrick on Paris syndrome and the Soviet love affair with Western culture:
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London Review of Books 24 juli
‘Just as the civil rights movement spanned the globe, so too did the reaction against it. In some regions it was the reaction that proved more enduring.’ Thomas Meaney on the white power movement in America, from the new issue:
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Jay G Ying 24 juli
"On her deathbed she cabled Eileen, then in the US, asking for a last chance to meet. Eileen didn’t go to London but sent her mother a $100 cheque." Fascinating article in the latest by Sheng Yun on Eileen Chang and Little Reunions.
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London Review of Books 24 juli
‘The new prime minister will live in a nice house in the middle of London, but it won’t be his house. Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Arron Banks bought it for him. They own 10 Downing Street, and they own him.’ on the Faragists:
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LRB Bookshop 24 juli
PODCAST: Relive the wild ride that was David Keenan in conversation with Bill Drummond
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London Review of Books 24 juli
How long do we have left, and how bad will it get? Francis Gooding on David Wallace-Wells's 'The Uninhabitable Earth':
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London Review of Books 24 juli
Our new issue is now online: on the Faragist (Rees-Moggian) future, Sheila Fitzpatrick on the Soviet love affair with Paris, on the time he saw the queen and Francis Gooding on our increasingly alien planet. Cover by Beth Holgate:
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