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From the archive: the monuments of Thatcherism, as seen in 1989 The Iron Lady’s legacy included the Lloyd’s building and cardboard city, the collapse of the coal industry and the right-to-buy policy Presiding over a country run by ‘a pack of wolves’: Margaret Thatcher Presiding over a country run by ‘a pack of wolves’: Margaret Thatcher Sun 4 Jul 2021 01.00 EDT As Thatcherism was about to enter its second decade and the Channel Tunnel was being dug there were ‘still more striking manifestations of the last 10 years’ according to the Observer Magazine’s writers (‘Thatcher�...

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Peter Conrad, the author of The Mysteries of Cinema, explains how darkness shapes the allure of the movies.

Toward An Adventist Theology Of Health – XII - The Theological Shift Written by:  May 13, 2021 As Roy Porter reminds us in his book "Flesh in the Age of Reason,"[1] the success of modern medicine lies in the fact that it has made the body predictable. Therefore, at the base, there is a strong process of bodily objectification. This has, on the one hand, has taken away its mystery and, on the other hand, made it governable through the introduction of refined mechanisms of measurement, experimentation and control of vital processes. The resulting paradox is a body that is hyper-performing bu...

Owen Hatherley , April 17th, 2021 08:57 Owen Hatherley interviews Jonathan Meades about his new book Pedro and Ricky Come Again, a massive collection of his writing from 1988 to 2021 – and on why he’s no longer making television Photo by Pablosievert. CC BY-SA 4.0 The last time I saw Jonathan Meades was in May 2018, in Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Marseille. In a flat surrounded with books, paintings, pictures, and postcards he’d made himself, and as we got through several bottles of rosé, he said he wasn’t fit enough to come up to the building’s famously sculptural r...