Category: Quote

  • 10/08/2025
    “There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. It is a racecourse tension.…
  • 15/07/2025
    Nature Briefing Who says facts are dull and boring? For more than 90% of our planet’s history, it was without…
  • 04/07/2025
    Britain is dangerously exposed to the whims of despots - New Statesman “We have (at the time of writing) only…
  • 03/07/2025
    Outside shocks don't tend to topple stable well-managed countries. What they do is pitilessly expose underlying weakness. Andrew Marr in…
  • 24/06/2025
    Citizens have a right to insist, as the price of trust in a democracy, that officials not give reason to…
  • 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…