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Journalists Jonathan Ancer and Chris Whitfield subtitle Joining the Dots (Jonathan Ball), their book about Pravin Gordhan, "An unauthorised biography".

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Journalists Jonathan Ancer and Chris Whitfield subtitle Joining the Dots (Jonathan Ball), their book about Pravin Gordhan, "An unauthorised biography".

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…are you reading now? The Ecclesiastical History Of The English People by the Venerable Bede. I am writing a book on English spirituality, to be titled The English Soul, and Bede will be the subject of the first chapter, to be followed by chapters on John Wycliffe, John Bunyan, John Henry Newman and others. I am also reading W. J. Loftie’s The Colour Of London because I have been asked to write about, well, the colours of London. …would you take to a desert island? I would take The Imitat...

T. S. Eliot, la emoción contemplada Poeta, dramaturgo y uno de los mejores pensadores de la literatura inglesa, el autor de ´La tierra baldía´ es el vigilante nocturno que ataca la estética romántica, defiende a los poetas metafísicos y se atreve a criticar a Shakespeare y Milton Por: Juan Arnau El escritor T. S. Eliot (St. Louis, Misuri, 1888 - Londres, 1965), retratado en 1957. La poesía no importa. Nunca dejaremos de explorar. El futuro es una canción pasada. Dante vivió en una ép...

By John Tresch

Insight 29 Apr 2021, 13:12 During the pandemic, we’ve all spent the last 12 months following guidelines as best we can and for most we’ve spent the vast majority of this time at home. As an organisation, this time has often been spent considering: what should architects speak about? In the spring of 2021, we are facing the decisions over how we regain a little more control over life and how we can recapture whatever normality is – and we feel this is a discussion for us all. As I sat to w...

MADNESS SPENT more weeks in the British singles charts in the 1980s than any other group except UB40 (with whom they share the accolade). They have been repeatedly anthologised, releasing more hits compilations than original albums. Madness are often thought of as a “singles band”, with all the term’s implied frivolity, as distinct from the supposed heft and substance of an “albums band”. In fact, Madness have been excellent at both. They made “The Liberty Of Norton Folgate” (2009...

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