December 2011
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Dec 29th
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Dec 25th
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ListenBryan Ferry  — Slave to love
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 17th
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The best book I've read about my brother to date!
‘While it reads like a taut, thrilling game of cat and mouse, the car chase scene late in the third act felt tacked on, and the romantic subplot was lacking in explicit detail. Despite this shortcoming, I am endlessly fascinated by the fact that an 88-page book can be written about a wikipedia article less than 200 words in length. Bravo, trio of editors, masterfully done.’ If you...
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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The cause of this recession? Economic pundits...
‘History is clear: as long as sectional interest overrides prudence or common sense, there is another crash. ‘This repeats the awful lesson offered by Seymour Hersh in his book, The Target is Destroyed. Describing events after the Russians accidentally shot down a Korean airliner in 1983, Hersh accused Washington of refusing to believe its own clear intelligence that the shooting was...
Dec 16th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
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ListenThe Bravery  — An honest mistake (Superdiscount...
Dec 10th
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Incoming. Café Paulin, Buenos Aires. by Clairex on Vimeo
Dec 8th
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ListenArcade Fire  — Black mirror
Dec 8th
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The genesis of Cagney & Lacey, best cop show ever.
… The story had been in development since the mid-70s, when producer Barney Rosenzweig first became aware of the burgeoning women’s movement. After watching a film called Scent of a Woman (not the Al Pacino version) his then-girlfriend, Barbara Corday, declared it, “the most degrading, the most sexist film I have ever seen”. Rosenzweig began watching from a new perspective. He...
Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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ListenEstelle  — Don’t talk
Dec 7th
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“I arrived in Kumasi with no particular goal. Having one is generally deemed a...”
– Ryszard Kapuściński, The Shadow of the Sun A brilliant book about Africa that puts that philosophy into practice itself.
Dec 5th
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Dec 1st
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“David Cameron calls the strikes the ‘height of irresponsibility’. In...”
– Five reasons public service workers are right to strike. Seumas Milne, in the Guardian
Dec 1st
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ListenGeorge Harrison/Jay-Z mashup by DJ Danger Mouse  ...
Dec 1st