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Dec 4, 2024 | 
ft.com | Lucasta Miller
Charles King calls Handel’s Messiah “the greatest piece of participatory art ever created”.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ed Nash |FoodVitello tonnato |Olivia Potts |Lucasta Miller
The toll wreaked from the events of September 17 and 18 has been extensive. According to the best estimates, more than 3,500 people were injured and thirty-seven were killed. The events I’m referring to, of course, were the sudden and surprise explosions of thousands of electronic devices, carried (in the majority) by members of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Toby Young |FoodVitello tonnato |Olivia Potts |Lucasta Miller
The latest issue of Scientific American, a popular science monthly published by Springer Nature, contains an editorial endorsing Kamala Harris. She is the candidate that anyone who cares about science should vote for, apparently.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Lucasta Miller |Olivia Potts |Toby Young |FoodVitello tonnato
The French philosopher Simone Weil, who died of self-starvation and tuberculosis in a Kent sanatorium in 1943 at the age of thirty-four, remains a conundrum. “Mais elle est folle!” had been the spluttering response of Charles de Gaulle the previous year, during her short wartime period analyzing reports for the Free French in London. Her simple brief was to précis the ideas coming in from the Resistance movement on how to reconstruct France after liberation.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Lucasta Miller
Simone Weil: A Life in Letters Harvard, pp.384, 31.95 The French philosopher Simone Weil, who died of self-starvation and tuberculosis in a Kent sanitorium in 1943 at the age of 34, remains a conundrum. ‘Mais elle est folle!’ had been the spluttering response of Charles de Gaulle the previous year, during her short wartime period analysing reports for the Free French in London.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Lucasta Miller
As many of us who grew up in America in the 1960s and 1970s learned, Mad magazine didn’t, as our parents warned us, warp our brains – because our brains were pretty warped to begin with. It was a time when what passed for culture was almost entirely scripted by Madison Avenue, promising that overpriced concoctions of sugar water and aspirin would eliminate all pain, social awkwardness and anxiety, or transport us to happy, sex-crazed beach parties with packs of photogenic young people.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Elisenne Stoller |Amber Duke |Lucasta Miller |Ben Clerkin
While the DNC is in full swing in Chicago, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are spending the week traveling to battleground states as part of their campaign’s way of counterprogramming. Trump’s schedule is packed this week, with more events than he’s done in several weeks.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Amber Duke |Lucasta Miller |Ben Domenech |Freddy Gray
A senior investigator who resigned from the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week is hitting back at the committee’s attempts to defend its investigation into the United States’s military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Jerry Dunleavy, a former Washington Examiner reporter who wrote a book about the fall of Kabul in the summer of 2021, joined the Foreign Affairs Committee at the behest of senior staff about a year ago.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Lucasta Miller |Ben Clerkin |Philip Hensher |Harry Cochrane
I’ve just returned from five days in the Lake District, attending the biennial “Friends of Coleridge” conference in Grasmere. All the other attendees were seasoned Coleridge scholars, but I was a newbie.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Lucasta Miller
I’ve just returned from five days in the Lake District, attending the biennial ‘Friends of Coleridge’ conference in Grasmere. All the other attendees were seasoned Coleridge scholars, but I was a newbie. The reason for my going was the fact that I’m engaged in a project that has at times felt something of a lonesome road and indeed an albatross: to write a book about Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’.
