France divided over calls for Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine to be reburied in Panthéon 🔗
_The Guardian_
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Posted on September 28, 2020
Clive James: 'The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life' 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ What makes great poetry? An exclusive extract from the late critic’s final book The Fire of Joy celebrates the poems he loved most. 📚
Posted on September 27, 2020
'He returned to what he really was': Clive James's daughter on his poetic farewell 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ Ten months before his death last year at the age of 80, Clive James underwent an eight-hour operation to remove a tumour on his face. Already very frail – he had been suffering from leukaemia for a decade – afterwards it took him almost a week to emerge fully into consciousness.
Posted on September 27, 2020
Every time I read Meera Sodha‘s column in The Guardian I find things I **must** cook. My latest quick reminder list:
– Shaoxing and soy braised tofu with pak choi
Posted on September 26, 2020
A Pizza Express Neptune Pizza 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ I’m sure Pizza Express won’t mind my singing their praises. I watch my cheese intake, so despite my liking a nice chunk of Cheshire, I very rarely have any. I also like a pizza but again don’t have too many.
Posted on September 25, 2020
David Graeber, anthropologist and author of Bullshit Jobs, dies aged 59 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ David Graeber, anthropologist and anarchist author of bestselling books on bureaucracy and economics including Bullshit Jobs: A Theory and Debt: The First 5,000 Years, has died aged 59.
Posted on September 25, 2020
Why Can't My Camera Capture the Wildfire Sky?
🔗 — Your Phone Wasn’t Built for the Apocalypse
Posted on September 19, 2020
Addressing The Claims In JK Rowling's Justification For Transphobia 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ Recently JK Rowling, author of Harry Potter, tweeted some transphobic statements and dogwhistles on Twitter that I have addressed here. After a few days silence she wrote a lengthy post trying to justify her position on her website.
Posted on September 13, 2020
Yanis Varoufakis: capitalism isn't working. Here's an alternative 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ When Margaret Thatcher coined “Tina” – her 1980s dictum that “There is no alternative” – I was incensed because, deep down, I felt she had a point: the left had neither a credible nor a desirable alternative to capitalism.
Posted on September 2, 2020
How maps in the media make us more negative about migrants 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ It’s like one of those optical illusions: it looks like one face at first, but it’s actually two. Once you see the second face, you can never unsee it. In this case, the illusion is how we view migration – it’s the maps we see so frequently that visualise migration for us.