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Expurgated, accelerated, improved and reduced. Deputy editor of
@apollo-magazine.com
This is really important on housing in London (and the FT has also reported on the government thinking about letting developers off the 35% affordable housing requirement)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges ā itās Labourās great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty
Ignore the bombast: Steve ābuild, baby, buildā Reedās boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/15/labour-housing-memo-leak-steve-reed
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Marine Tondelier
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Incroyable.
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Where do objects come from? No, where do they *really* come from? I spoke to Hew Locke for the October issue of
@apollo-magazine.com
about small boats, decorating statues and why Empire needs new clothes.
apollo-magazine.com/hew-locke-pa...
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Hew Locke and the Empireās new clothes
On the eve of a major US survey, the artist talks to Fatema Ahmed about decorating statues and the ornamental side of the British Empire
https://apollo-magazine.com/hew-locke-passages-yale-center-interview-empire/
15 days ago
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In which Isaac Chotiner interviews a bowl of jelly and the bowl of jelly has a small realisation at the end.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Can Liberalism Be Saved?
The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/can-liberalism-be-saved#intcid=_the-new-yorker-homepage-bkt-a_9e8b4bf8-0fa8-4d2c-9530-1b5f815e1eec_cygnus-personalized
21 days ago
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Patrick McGuinness
about 1 month ago
Glad to be in this month's Apollo, writing about Evan Walters's The Communist (c.1932): colour, ideas, Wales. Also mentioned: chapels, gospels and preachers (including the Manic Street variety), & being sceptical of rhetoric, like the little chap at the front.
apollo-magazine.com/evan-walters...
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Miner miracle
In paintings such as The Communist, a Political Meeting, the Welsh painter Evan Walters captured the hopes and fears of working-class communities, writes Patrick McGuinness
https://apollo-magazine.com/evan-walters-painter-communist-political-meeting-patrick-mcguinness/
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Iāve written something about Tom Lehrer for
@apollo-magazine.com
as a very small token of appreciation for his marvellous songs
apollo-magazine.com/tom-lehrer-s...
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Tom Lehrer, master of the musical art
The satirist who combined musical wit with political conscience and pure silliness has died at the age of 97. Fatema Ahmed sings his praises
https://apollo-magazine.com/tom-lehrer-songs-satire-cold-war-mathematician-obituary/
3 months ago
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We absolutely loved Tom Lehrer in our house.
3 months ago
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Will Wiles
4 months ago
I am the only one with clarity of purpose! For
@apollo-magazine.com
, I provide the "Andor" take that really matters: a look at Luthen Rael's antiques business
apollo-magazine.com/andor-luthen...
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Andor and the antiquities trade | Apollo Magazine
In the <i>Star Wars</i> series about the creation of the rebellion, Stellan SkarsgĆ„rdās art dealer/spymaster is perfectly placed to understand the inner workings of empire, writes Will Wiles
https://apollo-magazine.com/andor-luthen-rael-stellan-skarsgard-antiquities-trade-empire/
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From now on, all explanations of rank-choice voting must be in Bengali (heavy Hindi inflections optional) and through the medium of Bengali sweets.
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
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A former head of MI6 says that what the new head of MI6 will be really good at is 'understanding how we operate in the nexus between man and machineā.
4 months ago
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A lovely way of putting it
add a skeleton here at some point
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Edwin Heathcote
4 months ago
Sly Stone and Frederick Forsyth. The 20th Century was eclectic.
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Iāve judged all dealings with writers by Edmund White, who couldnāt have been more charming to a green assistant, or more professional with everyone. The Farewell Symphony is a great novel. RIP a brilliant āpublic-library intellectualā (as he described himself more than once).
4 months ago
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Will Wiles
5 months ago
For
@apollo-magazine.com
I wrote about Beatrice Minger's new film about Eileen Gray's E1027, and the strange paradox of Gray's reputation, which must be continually rediscovered
www.apollo-magazine.com/eileen-gray-...
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Maintaining Eileen Gray | Apollo Magazine
The designer was a genius but, as a new film shows, her achievements still have to be untangled from the men who kept getting in her way, writes Will Wiles
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/eileen-gray-e1027-house-by-sea-film-beatrice-minger/
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For the FT, I spoke to the painter Rachel Jones before the opening of her exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery
www.ft.com/content/8f8b...
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Rachel Jones ā art-world Road Runner
The 34-year-old artist has enjoyed a frantic ascent, part-inspired by cartoon heroes. A new exhibition finds her as animated as ever
https://www.ft.com/content/8f8b7220-8d39-4856-b491-d794dbe354ff
5 months ago
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āWe have a bonus scheme to protect our most precious resource, which is the senior management teamā ā the chair of Thames Water
www.ft.com/content/1f6d...
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Thames Water executives to receive bonuses from £3bn emergency loan
Utilityās chair tells MPs that retention payments are needed to prevent rivals āpicking offā staff
https://www.ft.com/content/1f6d1583-a931-4eb5-be04-b46c32f70db9
5 months ago
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You can already hear the effects of the cuts to the World Service because it has to repeat so much material - but its news is still better than anything else the BBC puts out.
5 months ago
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Fatema Ahmed
Apollo
6 months ago
In her new book, āFrieze Frameā,
@aestallings.bsky.social
collects the responses of poets and artists to the Parthenon marbles since the early 19th century. She talks to
@hekale.bsky.social
about why they now deserve a new lease of cultural life
www.apollo-magazine.com/ae-stallings...
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Poetic justice for the Parthenon marbles | Apollo Magazine
In āFrieze Frameā, A.E. Stallings collects the responses of poets and artists to the marbles. She explains to Fatema Ahmed why they now deserve a new lease of life
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/ae-stallings-interview-parthenon-marbles-elgin-frieze-frame-british-museum-interview/
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Contents page as time capsule
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Granta 36: Vargas Llosa for President
The novelistās personal account of his campaign for the presidency of Peru. Plus: Alvaro Vargas...
https://granta.com/products/granta-36-vargas-llosa-for-president/
6 months ago
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Gogglebox, but for the CCP.
7 months ago
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Fatema Ahmed
Apollo
7 months ago
In the best of Caspar David Friedrichās art, Lauren Kane finds āan essential minimalism that is often overwhelmed by the soaring pines, snowy cemeteries and gleaming crosses that have earned him a reputation as a heavy-handed, sentimental maximalistā
www.apollo-magazine.com/caspar-david...
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To infinity and beyond with Caspar David Friedrich | Apollo Magazine
The high priest of German Romanticism is at his best when practising a minimalism that requires maximum imaginative effort from the viewer, writes Lauren Kane
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/caspar-david-friedrich-metropolitan-museum-of-art-rueckenfigur-landscapes-review/
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I spoke to Owen Hatherley about his excellent new book, āThe Alienation Effectā, about the Central European Ć©migrĆ©s who fled to Britain and brought modernism with them
www.apollo-magazine.com/alienation-e...
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The ƩmigrƩs who made Britain modern | Apollo Magazine
Owen Hatherley talks to Apollo about his new book, āThe Alienation Effectā, about the Central European artists and intellectuals who fled fascism in the 1930s and came to Britain
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/alienation-effect-owen-hatherley-interview-central-european-emigres-modernism-britain/
7 months ago
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āpickled British iconoclastā
7 months ago
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A tale of two Schiffs⦠two Schiffs very unlike in dignity, via the New York Times
7 months ago
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Apollo
7 months ago
āIn this moment of our politics, I find myself seeking out certain images of cruelty in artā ā Tessa Hadley is drawn to Giovanni Belliniās depiction of the murder of Saint Peter Martyr
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A very measured martyrdom | Apollo Magazine
Tessa Hadley is unsettled by Giovanni Belliniās eerily calm depiction of the murder of Saint Peter Martyr
https://buff.ly/P4THQwo
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ā[DEFRA] is understood to have made representations to Downing Street that beavers could be part of Labourās growth mission, as the rodents work for free to build infrastructure and restore natureā āĀ via
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Beaver releases into wild to be allowed in England for first time in centuries
Exclusive: Government to grant nature groups a licence for release of rodent species after earlier setbacks
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/28/beavers-released-english-waterways-government-licence
8 months ago
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āThe editor is one of the great inventions of civilisationā ā Jill Lepore on the radio just now
8 months ago
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Fatema Ahmed
Apollo
8 months ago
āThe Brutalistā, Brady Corbetās bloated epic starring Adrien Brody as a Bauhaus-trained architect, conveniently pretends that all the real Bauhaus architects who made it to America never existed, writes Owen Hatherley
www.apollo-magazine.com/brutalist-fi...
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The Brutalist, reviewed | Apollo Magazine
Brady Corbetās epic starring Adrien Brody as a Bauhaus-trained architect in America pretends that all the real Bauhaus-trained architects never existed, writes Owen Hatherley
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/brutalist-film-brady-corbet-bauhaus-architecture-review/
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Vanilla Ice making an eight-part series about the kidnap of Shergar for BBC radio in 2021 isā¦not where I expected reading about the Aga Khan to go
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
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BBC Sounds - Sport's Strangest Crimes - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Sport's Strangest Crimes on BBC Sounds.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/p09k7d92
8 months ago
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Fatema Ahmed
Apollo
9 months ago
āHe wasnāt edgy. He was honestā āĀ
@jrobertlennon.com
gets to the heart of the genius of David Lynch
www.apollo-magazine.com/david-lynch-...
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The genius of David Lynch | Apollo Magazine
The film-maker was always an original but what makes his work unforgettable ā and inspiring to other artists, writes J. Robert Lennon ā is its radical honesty
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/david-lynch-films-images-twin-peaks-obituary-j-robert-lennon/
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Association for Scottish Literature
10 months ago
āIn story after story, epicene young men, difficult children, or wild beasts set out to shake up the stifling complacency around themā Hector Hugh Munro (1870ā1916) ā Saki ā b. 18 Dec.
@hekale.bsky.social
looks at Sakiās fierce, funny, & wicked fiction 1/4
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4360...
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Untameable Saki
One hundred years after Saki's death in the Great War, his stories are still wickedly funny
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/43602/untameable-saki
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The work seems wonderful and quite mad. I wish Iād known about Isabelle de Borchgrave before now
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/s...
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Isabelle de Borchgrave Dies at 78; Traced Sartorial History With Paper
An artist and designer, she transformed simple craft paper into elaborate trompe lāoeil confections, creating stunning life-size reproductions of period garments.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/style/isabelle-de-borchgrave-dead.html
11 months ago
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āI didnāt know there were so many book publishers in the worldā ā Bob Dylan on Frankfurt, in the other place.
12 months ago
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I spoke to the wonderful Liliane Lijn for
@apollomagazine.bsky.social
about kinetic art, Sumerian myth, and what it was like to be a young woman in avant-garde circles in the 1950s and ā60s
www.apollo-magazine.com/liliane-lijn...
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The cosmic art of Liliane Lijn | Apollo Magazine
The artist has pursued her interest in light, motion and myth across drawing, sculpture and performance for decades, but itās her openness to new ideas that really defines her work, writes Fatema Ahme...
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/liliane-lijn-interview-kinetic-art-matter-materials-myth/
12 months ago
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Apollo
about 1 year ago
How will Paris cope without the Pompidou Centre? As the museum prepares to close for five years from 2025, Catherine Bennett reports on the growing disquiet about its general direction and the hole it will leave in the cityās arts scene.
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How will Paris cope without the Pompidou? | Apollo Magazine
The museum is set to close for five years, leaving a hole in the cityās arts scene and adding to growing disquiet about its general direction, writes Catherine Bennett
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/pompidou-centre-closure-five-years-refurbishment/
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I had not thought of Leonard Rossiter as a squash fiend.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
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āIt was hard not to stare at him all the timeā: inside the remarkable rise and shocking loss of Leonard Rossiter
Best known for sitcoms Rising Damp and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, the actor died 40 years ago during a performance of Loot, aged 57. Co-stars, colleagues and friends remember a brilliant, s...
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/oct/04/leonard-rossiter-rising-damp-fall-and-rise-of-reginald-perrin
about 1 year ago
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Apollo
about 1 year ago
āApart from David Lynch, no living film-maker has so successfully made a career founded in his personal neuroses and obsessionsā ā Robert Hanks revisits the wonderfully surreal films of the Czech director and artist Jan Å vankmajer, who is 90 today.
www.apollo-magazine.com/jan-svankmak...
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The surreal films of Jan Å vankmajer | Apollo Magazine
When it comes to conjuring the uncanny atmosphere and impossible logic of dreams, the Czech film-maker has few equals, writes Robert Hanks
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/jan-svankmaker-films-surreal-czech-puppets/
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Finally, what I want from the Olympic closing ceremony: fever-dream choreography by dancers wrapped like mummies or burn victims.
about 1 year ago
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Margot Finn
about 1 year ago
"The Palace of Westminster and County Hall are both glorified office blocks, but only County Hall acknowledges that fact. The buildings work well as a pair: the self-conscious kitsch of Parliament facing off against the administrative no-nonsense style of the old LCC."
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London should be governed from its real home again | Apollo Magazine
Norman Fosterās City Hall has been denied listed status a second time. But, Edwin Heathcote writes, the more important question is: when will the capitalās government return to County Hall?
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/city-hall-norman-foster-london-local-government/
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Gordon Matta-Clark in Hammersmith
over 1 year ago
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Thoroughly recommend Sondheimās āPacific Overturesā at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Some of the most ingenious staging Iāve seen.
over 1 year ago
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If Sarah Jessica Parker and anyone else is curious to āknow Edgwareā, may I suggest ā¦āŖā¬ā©āThe Alternative Guide to the Boroughs of Londonā (2020), edited by Owen Hatherley, in which I write about my home suburb.
open-city.org.uk/blog/the-alt...
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The Alternative Guide to the Boroughs of London ā Open City
The new Open House guidebook with a twist edited by Owen Hatherley.
https://open-city.org.uk/blog/the-alternative-guide-to-the-boroughs-of-london
over 1 year ago
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Hanna Schygulla is in Poor Things ā as good a surprise, in its way, as Louis Garrel turning up in Little Women.
over 1 year ago
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Fatema Ahmed
Association for Scottish Literature
almost 2 years ago
āIn story after story, epicene young men, difficult children, or wild beasts set out to shake up the stifling complacency around them.ā Hector Hugh Munro (1870ā1916) ā Saki ā b. 18 Dec.
@hekale.bsky.social
looks at his fierce, funny, & wicked fiction 1/3
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4360...
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Untameable Saki
One hundred years after Saki's death in the Great War, his stories are still wickedly funny
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/43602/untameable-saki
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Christian Baleās American Psycho glasses are back.
almost 2 years ago
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I had a soft spot for AS Byatt as a teenager. A passage from Possession turned up in the critical appreciation exam for A level English ā and I still feel a bit of a cheat for writing about it as if I hadnāt read the novel.
almost 2 years ago
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The two countries on the UN security council that abstained on the resolution yesterday were Russia and the UK. Hope the UK has not invaded somewhere (recently) and is keeping it quiet.
almost 2 years ago
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The Jehovahās Witnesses of Edgware have not decided that now is really not the time.
almost 2 years ago
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For what itās worth, perhaps not very much, World Service radio is doing a good job of hanging on to trying to be humane.
about 2 years ago
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