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1 week ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Stuart Jeffries
In his jaunty new history Capitalism and Its Critics, John Cassidy traces the many reinventions of the world's most hardy economic systemOne of the joys of Capitalism and Its Critics, John Cassidy's unexpectedly lively romp through the two-and-a-half-century history of capitalism, is its fine sense for dramatic reversals. Nearly a century ago, for instance, John Maynard Keynes looked into his crystal ball and saw a world of plenty.
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2 weeks ago | 
eslocotidiano.com | Es lo Cotidiano |Stuart Jeffries
En el exterior, es una mañana ventosa en el Berlín de 1900. En el interior, la criada ha puesto a asar una manzana en el hornillo junto al lecho de Walter Benjamin, que tiene ocho años. Tal vez no puedan imaginar la fragancia, pero incluso si pueden, no lograrán saborearla con las múltiples asociaciones que experimentaba Benjamin cuando evocó esta escena treinta y dos años después.
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3 weeks ago | 
taipeitimes.com | Stuart Jeffries
By Stuart Jeffries / The Observer Many years ago there was a BBC children’s TV program called Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?. Its aim was to encourage kids to spending their summer holidays helping grannies across the street or litter-picking rather than lying on the sofa filling their faces with cheese puffs. If I’m anything to go by, it didn’t work. Moral Ambition is Why Don’t You?
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Stuart Jeffries
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Stuart Jeffries
Many years ago there was a BBC children’s TV programme called Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?. Its aim was to encourage kids to spending their summer holidays helping grannies across the street or litter-picking rather than lying on the sofa filling their faces with cheese puffs. If I’m anything to go by, it didn’t work. Moral Ambition is Why Don’t You?
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Stuart Jeffries
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Stuart Jeffries
“My mother,” writes Didier Eribon, “was unhappy her whole life.” Abandoned as a child, she started work at 14 as a house servant, later becoming a cleaning lady and then worked for decades making glassware at a factory in France’s Champagne region. Married at 20, she shared a bed for 55 years with a violent, philandering and controlling man she did not love, ultimately bearing intimate witness to his Alzheimer’s disease and death.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Stuart Jeffries
‘I had no friends,” says Charlotte Banfield, “and no interests. I was very depressed. It was all going to end very badly indeed for me.” Banfield – who has cerebral palsy, epilepsy and autism, and was being bullied at school – thought of taking her life. But then, aged 13, she was enrolled by her mum in a six-week surfing course run by the Wave Project, which helps to improve children’s confidence and ease their anxiety through riding breakers.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Stuart Jeffries
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Stuart Jeffries
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
