Planned in secrecy, the incursion was a bold move to upend the war’s dynamics and put Moscow on the defensive — a gambit that could also leave Ukraine exposed.
Times Literary Supplement (August 14, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Guy vs the Spies’ – Robert Cecil’s secret intelligence network; The new Cold War; On annihilation; What anxiety means; G.K. Chesterton’s Notting Hill…
This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Diarmaid MacCulloch on Tudor and Stuart espionage; @owenmatth on cold wars past and present; @TomCook24 on Shakespearean sexualities; Fiona Green on Emily Dickinson’s letters; Anna Katharina Schaffner on the Rhine; @suzifeay on Gayl Jones – and more pic.twitter.com/uHdRgW0dOs
The Globalist Podcast (August 14, 2024): Kyiv claims that Russia has had to pull units away from the east of Ukraine in order to defend its own territory. What effect will this have on the war?
Plus: Slovakia steps ever closer to authoritarianism and Nathan Thrall on how the West Bank has changed since 7 October.
Arizona, a swing state, and Missouri will be among the states voting on whether to establish abortion rights in state constitutions. Democrats have used the issue to turn out voters.
A week after the biggest foreign incursion into Russia since World War II, The New York Times visited one of the spots where Ukrainian forces stormed into Russia and surprised the defenders.
Worried About a Convention Clash, Democrats Woo Uncommitted Delegates
A quiet diplomatic effort to ease tensions with uncommitted delegates and head off televised confrontations inside the Democratic convention hall next week has been underway for months.
Francesca Peacock roots through the archives for a deeper understanding of scandal and speech in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Country Life Magazine (August 14, 2024): The latest issue features‘Save the Albion Cow’ – It’s rarer than a Giant Panda; Old houses, new technology; Hot and Steamy – Why the pressure cooker is back and Whizz kids – What made Elizabeth I, Brunel and Nelson special…
Breed for victory
Our treasured native livestock breeds are in danger of being lost, yet they have a crucial role to play, believes Kate Green
Levelling up
Anyone waiting with trepidations for the A-level results should take heart from the likes of Nelson and Brunel, says Alice Loxton
If walls could talk
Old houses with poor wifi need not be denied new gadgets, from wireless lighting to kettles that can be switched on remotely. Julie Harding taps her screen
What makes you click?
From a hollowed-out cow to autofocus and gyro-stabilised cameras, clever ideas continue to transform wildlife photography. Amie Elizabeth White takes a look down the lense.
Full steam ahead
Neil Buttery fires up the pressure cooker, back in our kitchens and tenderising those bones
Paint your wagon
Sturdy, hardworking and now prized for their rarity, farm wagons were key to rural life in times past. Jack Watkins rolls out the surviving examples.
Country Life’s tech commandments
Follow thou Toby Keel’s wise advice for digital life and thou shalt not be shunned in society
Planting for the future
The new generation is building on a fine legacy of gardening and travel at Bryngwyn Hall in Powys, where Caroline Donald wanders among trees gathered from far-flung countries
Foraging
John Wright sets off into the woods in search of meaty rot fungi, the magnificent chicken of the woods and its cousin, joy-inducing hen of the woods
Waiter! My soup is cold
It might be an acquired taste, but gazpacho — recipe of your choice — is worth tasting again. Tom Parker Bowles dips his spoon into a Spanish favourite
The Globalist Podcast (August 13, 2024): As the UK, France and Germany warn Iran against attacking Israel, the US ramps up military deployment in the region. But just how imminent is an attack?
Then: Pakistan’s former spy chief is arrested, Indonesia’s Joko Widodo holds a cabinet meeting in the nation’s unfinished new capital and we sit down with Ukraine’s defence industry chief, Alexander Kamyshin, in Kyiv. Plus: architecture news and could supersonic flights be making a comeback?
County clerks and secretaries of state are overwhelmed this year, as they stare down a “perpetual moving target” of new conspiracy theories, political pressure and threats.
The government has reduced a backlog of applications that built up during the Trump administration. New citizens say they are looking forward to voting in November.
Harris Says Trump Will Repeal Obamacare. Trump Now Claims He’ll Make It ‘Better.’
The popularity of the Affordable Care Act has changed the political strategy of Republicans, who are no longer campaigning to end the law.
LA Review of Books (August 13, 2024) – The latest issue, 
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