The Nineteenth Book I've Read This Year.

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Books The author of numerous much thicker books about Agincourt offers a quick but dense survey of Henry V's life, referring only bri...

Virtual Exhibition of restored elements of Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece.

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Art   Free 360 version of the show at  The Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent with versions in English for Adults and Children (which is presen...

What could happen during the Interregnum?

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 Politics     This long read from The Atlantic outline the scary scenarios of what might happen after the US election now that we know that ...

Polls. Polls. Polls.

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Politics You will have seen perhaps that the Radio Times has published the results of a poll amongst Doctor Who fans as to who their fa...

The Eighteeth Book I've Read This Year.

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Books James Shapiro looks at key moments in the culture war still raging in the US and investigates how they were influenced by the cano...

Does it Spark Joy?

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Film If the lock down has taught me anything (a hundred and sixty eight days folks) (the furthest I've been since March is the top o...
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Almost Hamlet:
Ophelia (2018).

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Film When this adaptation of Lisa Klein's novel was announced in 2016, it seemed initially like something of an outlier given that t...

Heinz 57.

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Food Genuinely the first occasion when I heard the phrase "Heinz 57" was in relation to a mongrel dog which a friend of a frie...
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The Seventeenth Book I've Read This Year.

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Books One of those books which is so readable there's a loss when it inevitably ends, especially since, having been published in 1982,...

What Is A Weblog? A Proposal.

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Life Just over, my god, fifteen years ago, a friend introduced me to a book publishers who were looking for someone to write an introducti...

A chronological list of available Royal Shakespeare Company productions and where to watch them.

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Theatre  is ephemeral.  Records often exist. There will be programmes. Costumes kept in archives along with photographs, annotated scrip...
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A Thousand Observations on Film Art.

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Film The utterly superb, Observations on film art, by film theorists Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell has reached its thousandth post ....

Is Taylor Swift gay?

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Music As I let the new Swift album roll over me in waves, I've been seeking wild interpretations of the lyrics. Come on board this ...

Dan Martin RIP.

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TV The NME reports that journalist and screenwriter Dan Martin has died, he was 41 . The cause of death has not been made public. That N...

"Oh I won't have it. I'm going to fight it until the bitter end."

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TV BBC Archive has posted another massive collection of clips, Eccentrics, enthusiasts and other characters , featuring the kinds of peopl...

Death of a Fandom.

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TV Yes, I know Taylor Beyonced an album last night ( or Faux Beyonce since there were only lyric videos and it was announced a few hours...

The tricks to make yourself effortlessly charming.

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Life This old BBC article from 2017 bubbled up to the surface of my pocket recommendations and although some of it feels like hogwash, I ...

Emojipedia.

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Social Media The Empojipedia is a Rosetta stone of digital symbolic communication, showing how various software companies has bent their ...

Drawing speed.

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Art Local Liverpool artist Colette Lilley has opened a YouTube channel to showcase her skills through time-lapse photography. Her intr...

"Who is the most-famous person you have a photo with?"

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Life This tweet meme has been knocking around for a few days and I haven't had an answer. As a rule, I've tended to avoid meetin...