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David Lammy · LondonSurrounded by a host of tropical plants, trees and fungi in Kew Gardens, David Lammy argued something surprising: that climate change would be “central to all the Foreign Office does.” In light of the current state of international affairs, it is remarkable that Lammy’s maiden speech – regally named ‘The Kew Lecture’ – addressed the climate crisis. Last week, Lammy was in Washington D.C. accompanying the prime minister to a meeting with Joe Bid…See the Story
Can Labour afford ambitious climate policy?
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London, England · LondonWant to understand the United States? Not those out-of-touch coastal cities, but the “real” America? Listen to politicians, journalists and talking heads (from anywhere on the political spectrum) and they’ll say: “Let me tell you about Ohio.” They won’t mention the cities you may know – Cleveland or Columbus, maybe even Cincinnati – but will begin to describe the beat-up, lesser-known corners of Ohio, the places usually safe from any potential p…See the Story
How Springfield became America’s everytown
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London, England · LondonThere is a fickle brand of bohemianism that pervades every student party, every open mic night in Dalston, every New Wave/Post Punk section of Rough Trade. It’s the dressed-down for show kind, the “I work at a craft brewery on the weekends but don’t need the money” kind, the “my job title is Young Creative” kind. These self-proclaimed non-conformists are everywhere, and they tend to move in packs. While East London has been their hub for some ti…See the Story
In London's warehouse district, the fauxhemian thrives
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Keir Starmer · LondonTrade unions are back. Just about. After nine prime ministers and a world turned upside down, unions are edging into the government’s economic thinking again. It wouldn’t surprise me if the idea of “industrial relations” was hovering somewhere at the back of Keir Starmer’s mind. He’s a lawyer after all, and Harold Wilson is his favourite Labour leader. Between 1964 and 1979, the Wilson, Callaghan and Heath governments put an enormous amount of e…See the Story
Keir Starmer’s union problem
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London, England · LondonSome biographers, perhaps more than we know of, come to resent, despise and, in extreme cases, loathe their subjects during the long process of writing about them. Not so AN Wilson. He approaches Goethe with an almost Goethean fervour. His book is a double biography, since it is as much concerned with the conception, development and difficult birth of the drama Faust as it is with the life and doings of the play’s magisterial and tirelessly self…See the Story
How Goethe sold his soul to Faust
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London, England · LondonShe seems to me to be a woman I should hatebecause she’s sitting close to you. I tell myself sternly that hating another womanis not a feminist thing to do but then she twists her hair around her finger.I watch as your eyes linger on her hands. I think of Pope: And Beauty draws uswith a single Hair and it’s then I know I’m lost. I turn to my dull-faced companion, laugh louder,harder, but the sound is an out-of-tune orchestra in my ears. And I fe…See the Story
The NS Poem: She seems to me (after Sappho)
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London, England · LondonEmperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China by Jack Weatherford By the end of the 13th century, the Mongols ruled the largest empire in history, stretching from China to eastern Europe. The man largely responsible was Genghis Khan but it was his grandson, Kublai Khan, who matched these land gains by ones at sea. He turned a polity that originated in nomadic tribes from landlocked central Asia into an unparalleled maritime superpower…See the Story
From Dan Jones to William Boyd: new books reviewed in short
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London, England · LondonDavid Spiegelhalter was born in Barnstaple, Devon, in 1953. He is a statistician, emeritus professor of statistics and fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He hosts the podcast Risky Talk. What’s your earliest memory? When I was about three or four, sitting in a small orange chair outside our kitchen door on a very busy main road. I could watch cars (and presumably breathe in their exhaust fumes) for hours. What book last changed your thinkin…See the Story
David Spiegelhalter Q&A: “I can’t think of anything worse than eternity”
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