Category: Quote

  • 17/03/2025
    Writer Didier Eribon: ‘My mother was unhappy her whole life’ Didier Eribon’s mémoire,The Life, Old Age, and Death of a…
  • 19/02/2025
    Nice quote (not verbatim) from Adam Tooze on his Ones and Tooze podcast on Foreign Policy (How scary is DOGE?…
  • 13/02/2025
    Wonderful article (and Editorial) about the industrialisation of online scamming and digital lies. Totally scary. But what a line: The…
  • 12/02/2025
    The case for persisting with foreign aid It is disgusting to read the boast of the world’s richest man that…
  • 10/02/2025
    Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books? I first came across her writing (KR) when I bought her book, The Girl…
  • 08/02/2025
    Adam Tooze · Trouble Transitioning: What energy transition? On the Welsh side, I am the descendent of multiple generations of…
  • 08/07/2024
    The dismal science Industrial Policy Is a Nostalgic Pipe Dream by James K. Galbraith - Project Syndicate As I have…
  • 26/02/2024
    The desperate reality of a UK surgeon in Gaza The desperate reality of a surgeon in Gaza
  • 02/01/2024
    Edinburgh’s Festivalisation Rory Scothorne · Short Cuts: Edinburgh’s Festivalisation The first humans​ settled in Scotland around 14,000 years ago. They…
  • 06/11/2023
    Brecht I want to end by reading something Bertolt Brecht wrote that I stumbled across in my twenties: Nowadays, anyone…