Coronavirus in context: a guide to help you understand the pandemic 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ The coronavirus has grown into a pandemic with far-reaching and long-lasting consequences. We see it as our task to help you understand this worldwide development by providing context for the news in a carefully considered, factual and constructive way.
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Posted on March 23, 2020
Cricket has lost the role it had in 1939 but it's still far more than a game 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ Sport means nothing if it is not about passion and connection and nowhere is that more sharply defined than in football, as we have witnessed since coronavirus ripped it from our lives in recent weeks and days.
Posted on March 19, 2020
My walk across desolate Venice 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ Gregory Dowling: So, as I anticipated in my last post, yesterday I had the opportunity to take a long walk across Venice, since I had to go to the university to act as Chairman of a “commissione di laurea”, sitting in front of a computer and connecting telematically with the students…
Posted on March 11, 2020
Poet's corners: a car-free tour of inspiring Wordsworth sites 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ William Wordsworth was born in Cumbria 250 years ago, on 7 April 1770. Inspired by nature and a sense of place, he was an environmentalist as well as a poet, so it’s fitting to visit the places he celebrated in as eco-friendly a way as possible.
Posted on March 10, 2020
Anna Jones' squash and crispy kale pizza recipe 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ Pizza is a big part of my life. It’s both my and my four-year-old’s favourite food, so a lot of our meals revolve around it, and happily so. We are lucky enough to live in a part of London where there are good sourdough pizza places every 10 steps. In pizza terms, we are spoilt rotten.
Posted on March 7, 2020
England beat Wales 33-30 in a thrilling Six Nations encounter 🔗 🏉
Posted on March 6, 2020
A Quietus Interview 🎵 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ Duncan Seaman talks to Tjinder Singh and Ben Ayres of Cornershop about keeping busy, Brexit and their ace new album England Is A Garden.
Posted on March 5, 2020
I was looking forward to watching the India v England 🏏 semi-final this morning but … Women's T20 World Cup: England out but India into final after washout 🔗
Posted on February 28, 2020
“Que sais-je?” – Michel de Montaigne, philosopher, was born #onthisday 1533 bbc.in/2uDemjc 🔗
Posted on February 20, 2020
Klaus Thomsen, Coffee Collective on The Idealists podcast 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ To evade the so-called coffee paradox, four coffee enthusiasts set out to form the Coffee Collective in 2007 in Copenhagen. Hear how co-founder Klaus Thomsen built a sustainable business with a mission to create the best coffee experiences in the world while bringing better returns to the farmers.