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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Ethnohistory reflects the wide range of current scholarship inspired by anthropological and historical approaches to the human condition around the world, but with a particular emphasis on the Americas. Issue 72:4 is now available, view the TOC: buff.ly/KqXXW9h

The Frog Prince #art #artistsofbluesky #contemporaryart #modernart #inkpainting #pastel #abstract #abstractart #artlover #mixedmedia #graphite #oilpainting #painting #artwork #panelpainting #outsiderart #expressionism #abstractexpressionism

“'If you’re excited to read great canonized fiction, then awesome,' says [Andrew] Cunningham [yes, our Andrew Cunningham]. 'But if you’re excited to read an enemies-to-lovers romance or a book where people ride dragons, that’s what you should read.'” We enjoyed chatting for this article!

Rage bait named word of the year 2025 by Oxford University Press

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There you go. Parliament will now consider debate on calls for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy

Just a reminder to everyone that you can download our new book by scanning the code below. It's FREE! You won't find a better price than that.

As Jesus once put it: "what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and then have to pay the mansion tax?"

Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting

A woman with dementia adored her haircut. Her husband's letter to the stylist is everything. #Alzheimers #dementia #kindness #Thanksgiving

‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims

“Where everything else felt exhausted, the classroom was overflowing, plentiful. All we needed was a poem, a few hours each week, and trust in what we could do, in what we did do, together.” @johannawinant.bsky.social on the real power of close reading in a growing age of austerity:

Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We talk with @luisaneubauer.bsky.social about the political headwinds, why the climate "vibe shift" is happening, and how to push forward anyway. Listen here: www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes...

Court Prepares to Review Palestine Action Ban open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...

One of the definitive punk anthems and a brilliant song. That B side ‘I Wanna Be Me’ is a superb song too 🎯👌🔥 I’ve got a French import version of ‘Anarchy’ with a cracking sleeve cover. Still sounds fresh and powerful today ✊ #SexPistols #punk #MusicSky

‘No topic is too difficult’: children’s series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy

Panic isn’t a modern ailment. Humans have lived with it for centuries, long before medications such as benzodiazepines existed. So what did people in other eras and cultures do when terror struck, and how did they steady themselves? buff.ly/7zR9MIq

Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review – the charismatic philanderer who changed science

If you're at all interested in how culture & politics intertwine, check out this thread about the connections between South African music & the South African anti-apartheid struggle. Includes a 1970 broadcast from the ANC's Radio Freedom. And some very cool music. 👇🏽

‘Enshittification’: how we got the internet no one asked for – podcast

They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben

Fifty years after his death, Francisco Franco is being rehabilitated in Spain. Writing from Extremadura in our spring issue, Troy Nahumko surveys the social and political battles still being waged over the dictatorship, with jarring parallels to Trump’s own war on historical memory:

“No one could have guessed that another Louise Bourgeois retrospective would be needed in 2017 — to account for the aesthetic breakthroughs of old age.” —Susan Gubar, feminist scholar and literary critic

Read "What Does China Want?" by scholars David C. Kang, Jackie S. H. Wong, and Zenobia T. Chan in the Summer 2025 issue of International Security: direct.mit.edu/isec/article... #OpenAccess @belfercenter.bsky.social @drjlhazelton.bsky.social

Who knew it would take an American pope to remind us of the value of art and good taste? | Jason Okundaye

A huge step for rewilding in the Highlands 🌲 #GlenAffric NNR - one of Scotland’s most iconic and beautiful glens - has officially joined @affrichighlands.bsky.social, the UK’s largest #rewilding landscape. Read the full story 👉 affrichighlands.org/news/glen-af...

“you told me there’s no application form that can hold / the entirety of a life, because our days constantly spill like wine.” — Ae Hee Lee (@aeheelee.bsky.social) . . . This poem appeared in POETRY Magazine, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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Wales vs North Macedonia tonight — #WCQ on the line at the Cardiff City Stadium Matchday tips or travel inspo in your #liberoguide 👉 buff.ly/5y3Xd3c #Wales #groundhopping

Wales vs North Macedonia: Prediction, Betting Tips & Odds for the match https://www.byteseu.com/1549870/ Wales vs North Macedonia: Prediction for the Match on November 18, 2025 Prediction for the World Cup match which will be held on November 18. Who will be stronger? Check the team conditions! …

Israel needs to face accountability for our genocide. And so does the US | Yuli Novak

Your favorite beauty guru but it's 1588 By Karolina Zebrowska www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-_n...

One of the main theses of the book is that framing an event as a “crisis” is never a neutral act. Crisis discourses are tools that can be easily abused or weaponized, depending on one’s political agenda.

It was great to finally see a Hoopoe for the first time, I caught this one flicking up cockroaches to swallow! #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography

‘Liverpool went from having a single slave ship in 1709 to more than a hundred six decades later. By 1795 it controlled almost half of the European slave trade.’ John Kerrigan on Atlantic slavery: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“Oh, your mouth is a diver’s bell; / it takes me down untold fathoms.” — Susan Glickman . . . This poem appeared in Henry Moore’s Sheep by Susan Glickman, published by Véhicule Press, 1990. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world

Fascism requires an enormous administrative state. That's the real significance of Project 2025 and the pivot it marked for the modern conservative movement. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...

The doc 'Sarajevo Safari' came out in '22. It alleged that wealthy Europeans paid to shoot people from Serb-held army positions. This was reported during the war but there was no follow-up, until now with Italian prosecutors investigating. Hope Sarajevo's Romeo and Juliet finally get some justice.

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Circling the world over the last couple of nights, the aurora borealis put on quite a spectacular show in the sky of the northern hemisphere.

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Third Reich of Dreams, collected the dreams of witnesses of the rise of Nazism and, ultimately, provided invaluable insight into the effects that authoritarianism has on the unconscious mind.

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The fight over the Epstein files is heading to the House floor. A fresh email released Wednesday — in which Epstein told a journalist that Trump “knew about the girls” — is jump-starting the push for a December vote Trump has tried to avoid.

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.