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    If you're in London this weekend, there's still time to pick up a ticket to our LIVE recording at the Kings Place Politics Festival tomorrow – we'll be talking populism with David, Helen and Chris Bickerton. Join us! Get your ticket here →

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    Our latest episode is a discussion with Andrew O'Hagan about his piece on the Grenfell Tower disaster. You can find Andrew's original essay online here →

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    'People develop attachments to places, they move, they develop attachments to new places, and to new people... what level of violence are you prepared to tolerate to keep people in their place?' - from last summer - in the LRB:

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    ‘Einstein thought him one of the world’s leading figures both as a writer and a man.’ Read Terry Eagleton on George Bernard Shaw

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    'Here, embedded in four thick volumes of edited correspondence, were fragments of what felt like a private story to be pieced together' Sam Thompson on what his grandfather knew about Samuel Beckett

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    "Is the medium itself male? Is there something in cinema that gives power to the predator, sitting still in the dark, watching desired and forbidden things?" Superlative David Thomson essay on Vertigo: " I don’t think its fantasy can go unchastised."

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    'As the only academic writing on jazz, and under culturally high-class auspices, Francis Newton naturally found himself acting as tourist guide to swinging Soho for foreign intellectuals.' via

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    “The New Yorker said it was ‘far-fetched nonsense’; Time thought it just ‘another Hitchcock and bull story’.”

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    16 hours ago

    Timely reminder — British immigration policy is also needlessly, wilfully cruel. William Davies in outlined the system perfectly

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    In our latest episode, David talks to Andrew O'Hagan about his epic essay on the Grenfell Tower fire. We discuss what the community was like before the fire, what went wrong on the night, and how politics has intruded into everything since →

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    This, in the LRB, is a quite excellent, bittersweet appraisal of Vertigo in its 60th anniversary year by the film critic David Thomson

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    19 hours ago

    I have just had a little nostalgia-fest with a photo taken of me aged 18 by my mate Diana Bonakis Webster, on a 'dig". I think I did once look like this and still see myself somewhere here (or do I?)

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    'It's irrefutably clear that "Vertigo" is a confession to the damage done by men's grooming of women's desirability. And even if the film is tragic, I don't think its fantasy can go unchastised.' David Thomson on Hitchcock after Weinstein:

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    ‘It wasn’t until the 1930s, when Alan Turing drew attention to the originality of her work, that Ada got her due, up to a point.’ Read Rosemary Hill on the mathematician Ada Lovelace

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  15. Jun 22

    ‘One must not come to feel that he has a thousand threads / in his hands. He must somehow see the one thing.’ Jeremy Harding on the poems of George Oppen

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  16. Jun 21

    'One real tradition that continues at Stonehenge is English radicalism' Rosemary Hill marks the solstice:

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    Jun 21

    Happy birthday to Anne Carson. It feels right that she was born on the summer solstice, what with all that light.

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  18. Jun 21

    On the LRB blog: Stanley Cavell; Beckett's psychoanalyst; the Glasgow School of Art fire; Viktor Tsoi; Anthony Bourdain; on abortion rights in Northern Ireland.

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    Jun 21

    Some charge with being a closet referendum Leaver. I don’t buy it. David Runciman went through Benn diaries & records him disagreeing with Benn on just one thing: Europe. Benn wanted referendum on Maastricht, Corbyn didn’t.

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    Said's diary remains one of my favourite things to read when end of year overload brain sets in: , with highlights, "I recall rather needlessly and idiotically introducing Foucault to him [Sartre]" and "It was about as informative as a Reuters dispatch"

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