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2 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Stuart Jeffries
In 2019, Sotheby’s sold a painting of a little girl with a conservative side parting, a Peter Pan collar and the most unflinching green eyes – which stare down the viewer. It went for $25m, which makes it Japan’s most expensive painting. And it is a knife crime waiting to happen. The girls gaze is as withering as those in Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Her eyes follow you as inescapably as Lord Kitchener’s in the first world war recruitment poster.
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1 week 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 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Stuart Jeffries
Nothing says so much about a superyacht or its owner, writes Evan Osnos, as its LOA. The initials stand for “length over all” – or what one aficionado he interviewed calls “phallic sizing”. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, before he got the idea of sending celebrities like Katy Perry into space, commissioned a $485m yacht called Koru.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Stuart Jeffries
One day Adam Buxton ordered two teas with oat milk from the trolley on the train. Unfortunately his came with cow’s milk and, because his need for vegan alternatives is apparently greater than his wife Sarah’s, he asked her to swap.
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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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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
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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2 months 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.
