Tag Archives: Great Britain

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Aug 23, 2024

Times Literary Supplement (August 21, 2024): The latest issue featuresAngels at her table’ – C.K. Stead and Kirsty Gunn on Janet Frame’s singular voice; Pat Barker and Mark Haddon’s modern myths; Rethinking incarceration; How art comes about; Sleep science; Hypochondria and literary reputations….

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Aug 16, 2024

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…

Reviews: What Life Is Like At Cambridge University

DW Euromaxx (August 10, 2024): Studying at the world-famous University of Cambridge is a dream for many international students. So, what’s it like to study there? How much does it cost? And do Cambridge students have time for fun?!

CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:24 Facts & figures 00:43 Application process 01:24 Fees & finances 03:15 Housing & accommodation 04:47 Student life 06:09 Tips & challenges

Euromaxx reporter Clare Trelawny-Gower takes you to her alma mater to give you the lowdown on how YOU could study at Cambridge. #DWStudyinginEurope #DWEuromaxx #Cambridge

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Aug 9, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (August 7, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Paper Dreams’ – Dinah Birch on William Morris’s contradictions; Cancelled left and right; Downfall of the West; Sly old Chaucer; Beowulf, hero of the Northern World….

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – July 26, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (July 24, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Generation Anxious’ – Jonathan Haidt’s bleak vision of modern childhood; Rebuilding broken Britain; The woman who stalked the world; German Expressionism at Tate Modern and Twisters..

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – July 19, 2024

Times Literary Supplement (July 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘World at War’ – Humanity’s appetite for organized violence; Should we have babies; Posture panic; The boy on the burning deck and Wales…

Current Affairs: Prospect Magazine – Aug/Sept 2024

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Prospect Magazine (July 11, 2024) – The latest issue features ‘Fixing The Mess’ – How Britain can recover, and find its place in the world; Gaza’s Future; Asylum King – Meet the man cashing in on the system; Giorgia Meloni – How the extreme became mainstream….

How Britain can rejoin the world

The UK isn’t the global power that it was in 1997. But if the new government makes smart choices, we might still avoid drifting into irrelevance

Agnès Poirier’s diary: Parisians flee the Olympics

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Agnès Poirier

For months we had been complaining about the damage the Games would inevitably bring to our city

Labour must rethink the machinery of state

Sam Freedman

Are there any humans left on the internet?

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – July 12, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (July 10, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Ven ice Preserved – La Serenissima down the centuries; Why revolutions fail; Eating ourselves to death and Ozempic nation…

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – June 28, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (June 26, 2024): The latest issue features ‘More is More’ – Claire Lowdon on excess; Flaubert’s moral vision; Twenty years of British Politics; Quantum Mechanics and Medieval women….

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – June 21, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (June 19, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Booking A Holiday’ – TLS critics choose their summer reading; Artistic license – The relationship between ‘loveliness and lucre’; Christopher Isherwood in full; How to be a Liberal; Story of a ghost painter and Fine-art fraud…