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COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE – January 29, 2025 Issue

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COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE (January 28, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Ready, Steady, Go!’ – The wonderful thing about Springers…

Full of the joys of spring(ers)

The non-stop English springer is still our number one working spaniel, reveals Matthew Dennison, as he delves into this enthusiastic, energetic breed

Snake, rattle and roll

Rob Crossan investigates the deeply spiritual origins of that enduring family board-game favourite Snakes and Ladders

Heard it on the radio

The wireless broke new ground as the first form of home-based mass entertainment and is still going strong in the age of the smart speaker, finds Ben Lerwill

Friends with benefits

Nematodes are a natural way to halt the march of all manner of garden pests and Charles Quest-Ritson is a convert

Mould and behold

Josiah Wedgwood was a brilliant businessman with a remarkable social conscience. Tristram Hunt assesses his life and legacy

Catch us if you can

Owain Jones sizes up six of the best as he picks out the players to watch in this year’s Guinness Six Nations rugby extravaganza

Roger Morgan-Grenville’s favourite painting

The conservation campaigner selects a work that inspired his lifelong obsession with seabirds

A Palladian premonition

Richard Hewlings offers a fresh analysis of the architecture at Bramham Park, a highly original West Yorkshire country house

The legacy

Kate Green remembers Robert FitzRoy, the founder of the Met Office whose name lives on in the BBC’s Shipping Forecast

Dear country diary

Paul Fleckney flicks through The Guardian’s Country Diary, which has offered a snapshot of rural life for more than 120 years

Interiors

The best stoves and fireplaces picked by Amelia Thorpe, plus the alternatives to burning logs

Luxury

Hetty Lintell’s top timepieces and James Haskell’s favourite things

Magnificent mahonias

Charles Quest-Ritson makes the case for mahonias, arguing that their pleasantly scented flowers are a seasonal delight

Kitchen garden cook

Melanie Johnson pairs peppery horseradish with salmon fillets

Ring-dove beauteous!

John Lewis-Stempel coos over the much-maligned wood pigeon, that canny, keen-eyed and fast-flying stalwart of our countryside

Arts & Literature, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – FEBRUARY 3, 2025 PREVIEW

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A woman stands on a roof as pigeons take flight around her.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (January 27, 2025): The latest issue features Kadir Nelson’s “Messenger” – The city’s ubiquitous winged creatures can be an unexpected source of inspiration.

Trump’s Attempt to Redefine America

The effect of the President’s executive orders was to convey an open season, in which virtually nothing—including who gets to be an American citizen—is guaranteed. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Inside the Fight Against a Los Angeles Inferno

A reporter embeds with wildland firefighters during one of the deadliest blazes in California history. By M. R. O’Connor

A Witness in Assad’s Dungeons

Mazen al-Hamada fled Syria to reveal the regime’s crimes. Then, mysteriously, he went back. By Jon Lee Anderson

Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE – Jan 26, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (January 25, 2025): The 1.26.25 issue features…

Nevada’s Lithium Could Help Save the Earth. But What Happens to Nevada?

Many climate experts see its deserts as a place to build the green-energy future. For two local activists, the price is too great.

Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening.

The once-fringe writer has long argued for an American monarchy. His ideas have found an audience in the incoming administration and Silicon Valley. By David Marchese

Why Did ‘Woj’ Take a 99% Pay Cut? To Save the Team He Loves.

Adrian Wojnarowski is trying to help St. Bonaventure’s tiny basketball program thrive in the scary new world of college sports. By Bruce Schoenfeld

Business, Investing, Magazines, Retirement

Barron’s Magazine —- January 27, 2025 Preview

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE (January 25, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Trump Effect’ – Bond prices could fall further. Why that’s bad for borrowers…

High Interest Rates Are Hammering Investors. What Lies Ahead Could Be Worse.

Rising rates would be bad news for bondholders and borrowers of all stripes, particularly the U.S. government. They cast a shadow over stocks, too.

Worried About Social Security Under Trump? What to Know About Claiming Early.

The program’s finances could take another hit if some of the president’s tax proposals are passed. What to know about claiming early.

Alphabet, Uber, Applied Materials, and 19 Other Picks From the Barron’s Roundtable

Four of our panelists discuss their favorite investments in the final installment of our 2025 stock-picking confab.

The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Look at Barron’s 2024 Stock-Pick

While our overall report card is disappointing, our best picks revealed our strength in digging into complicated situations.

Magazines, News, Opinion, Politics

The Spectator World Magazine – February 2025

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THE SPECTATOR WORLD (January 24, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Hard Pressed’ = How legacy media finally lost its influence…

How the legacy media became powerless

The 2024 election seems to sound the final knell for an industry that managed to hang on well past its prime

The California fires and the reckoning on liberal governance

As the smoke clears, we are left to survey the wreckage, pick up the pieces and rebuild — and learn lessons that prevent

The Trump Resistance is almost dead in DC

Steve Bannon called Trump ‘America’s Cincinnatus’ and Mark Zuckerberg ‘a criminal who deserves to be in prison’

Is J.D. Vance MAGA’s future?

The vice president may soon emerge as the architect of a new political settlement

President Trump’s ‘First Hundred Hours’

His rapid actions are meant to change the nation’s direction and underscore that change

Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

National Review Magazine —- March 2025 Preview

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NATIONAL REVIEW MAGAZINE (January 24, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Left vs. Art’ – Why climate activists attack our cultural heritage.

Vandals of Civilization: Why Climate Activists Attack Our Cultural Heritage

Defacing works of art functions as a siren shriek — and an assertion of the importance of the protesters themselves. by Fred Bauer

I Joined the Trans Academy

Where if you were ‘born in the wrong body’ you can try out a new one. by Abigail Anthony

Wildfire of the Vanities: California’s Political Model Has Failed

How have such incompetents taken over the state? by Will Swaim

Magazines, Research, Reviews, Science, Uncategorized

Science Magazine —- January 24, 2025 Preview

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE (January 23, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Maniforld Males’ – Genetic orchestration of breeding morphs in ruffs…

Private fusion firms put bold claims to the test

Amid skepticism, companies bet that speed and innovation can realize fusion’s promise

The parting of water

Green hydrogen is key to decarbonizing the world. But the costly, finicky devices that make it need dramatic improvement

Misreported meals skew nutrition research data

Survey-based studies linking diet patterns to health may be fatally flawed, paper suggests

Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews, Society

Reason Magazine – March 2025 Opinion Preview

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REASON MAGAZINE (January 23, 2025): The latest issue features ‘You Can’t Evict Polly’ – How the Fair Housing Act enabled the rise of emotional support parrots, frogs and emus….

Javier Milei Deregulates Food Imports and Exports

The move “seeks cheaper food for Argentines and more Argentine food for the world.”

Trump’s Tariffs Will Make Americans, Mexicans, and Canadians Poorer

American tariffs will increase the price of final and intermediate goods, hurting our own consumers and domestic manufacturers.

History, Magazines, Politics, Reviews

History Today Magazine — February 2025 Preview

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History Today | The World's Leading Serious History Magazine

HISTORY TODAY MAGAZINE (January 23, 2025): The latest issue features the destruction of medieval England’s Jews, British soldiers in the American Revolutionary War, unreported murder in East Germany, ‘mad duchess’ Elizabeth Cavendish, and more.

Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery

For the Portuguese empire to rise, an old world had to give way. Rivals in Europe’s lucrative spice trade, how much did they know about the powerful Mamluk sultanate?

Behind Donald Trump’s Palace Walls

The vagaries of palace politics are notoriously difficult to record. Historians should pay attention to rumour.

Who to Blame for Early Modern Climate Change?

The changing climate of the Little Ice Age forced radical thinkers to reconsider humanity’s place in the universe.

‘Man-Devil’ by John J. Callanan review

Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe by John J. Callanan revels in the making of the controversial satirist and philosopher.

Arts & Literature, Books, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews

The New York Review Of Books – February 13, 2025

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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (January 23, 2025): The latest issue features…

Urgent Messages from Eternity

An exhibition of Franz Kafka’s postcards, letters, and manuscript pages rekindles our sense of him as a writer deeply connected to his own time and place.

Franz Kafka – an exhibition at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, May 30–October 27, 2024, and the Morgan Library and Museum, New York City, November 22, 2024–April 13, 2025

Guatemala: Democracy Imperiled

Bernardo Arévalo’s inauguration last year as president of Guatemala symbolized the revival of democracy in a notoriously corrupt country. A concerted effort by obstructionist elites now threatens to oust him on specious grounds—and bring repression back.

Farmer George

Bruce Ragsdale’s Washington at the Plow examines the connections between the first president’s commitment to agricultural innovation and his evolving attitudes toward his enslaved laborers at Mount Vernon.

Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery by Bruce A. Ragsdale