An instrument of chaos: Trump leads polls as Iowa Republicans weigh future of US democracy | U
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
The fight for democracyUS news‘An instrument of chaos’: Trump leads polls as Iowa Republicans weigh future of US democracyThe false belief the 2020 election was stolen is part of some Trump voter’s ideology, while others are turned off by his legal woes
Iowa caucuses 2024 – live updates Iowa caucuses 2024: live Republican results in full As Iowa Republicans gather on Monday to choose their presidential candidate, a host of big questions surround the potential return of Donald Trump and the future of democracy in the US.
[Read More]Eminent Hipsters by Donald Fagen review
Posted on June 12, 2024
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Music booksReviewMoments of musical transcendence and life on the road … this dry white whine from the Steely Dan singer is a memoir to savourThis book is a piece of pure bliss, and it's not even the book I thought or hoped it would be. When they said a memoir by Donald Fagen was on the way it seemed reasonable to assume that the co-founder of Steely Dan would be reflecting on the run of seven LPs between 1972 and 1980 that constitute one of the greatest oeuvres in American rock, and would thereby shine a light on the famously enigmatic lyrics with which he and his partner Walter Becker used to bamboozle us.
[Read More]First picture drawn in space to appear in cosmonauts show in London | Space
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
Space This article is more than 8 years oldFirst picture drawn in space to appear in cosmonauts show in LondonThis article is more than 8 years oldSunrise sketch by Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk in space, is part of ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ Science Museum exhibition on Russian space programme
The first artwork created in space, a small yet remarkable view of a sunrise drawn as Alexei Leonov was hurtled around Earth on board a tiny Voskhod 2 spacecraft, is to leave Russia for the first time.
[Read More]GA Cohen | Philosophy | The Guardian
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
PhilosophyObituaryGA CohenPolitical philosopher who produced a revolutionary reinterpretation of Marxist theoryProfessor GA ("Jerry") Cohen, who has died of a stroke aged 68, was arguably the leading political philosopher of the left. He was the most important interpreter of Marx in the analytic tradition and, in 1978, his Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence engendered a new school of Marxist thought – Analytic Marxism, or, as Cohen called it, Non-Bullshit Marxism.
[Read More]Goltzius and the Pelican Company review Peter Greenaway's modern court masque
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
Goltzius and the Pelican CompanyReviewPeter Greenaway's story of a Dutch painter attempting to produce an erotic edition of the Old Testament depicts the birth of modern media – and the sex behind itPeter Greenaway's new film is an explicitly, almost pedantically erotic court masque for the cinema, and an attempt to fuse the early modern aesthetic of the 16th century with the 21st-century medium of digital film. It continues this director's idiosyncratic critical engagement with fine art and the masterpieces of the Renaissance.
[Read More]Joe Rogan review dumb guy comedy grounded in an alpha male world
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
ComedyReviewO2 Arena, London The controversial US podcaster finds fertile material challenging society’s sensitivities – yet while his standup takes pains to short-circuit offence, fear of emasculation underpins too many of the gags
“Talking shit used to be fun,” complains Joe Rogan. “It didn’t used to have so many consequences.” He sounds quite sensitive, Rogan, to the pushback against him saying the N-word on his hit podcast, or broadcasting anti-vaccine misinformation. Which is ironic, because every routine here is bookended by a peeve about how sensitive people are these days.
[Read More]Mexico: wife of captured ex-governor living high life in London, rival alleges | Mexico
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
Mexico This article is more than 5 years oldMexico: wife of captured ex-governor living high life in London, rival allegesThis article is more than 5 years oldKarime Macías disappeared last year after her husband Javier Duarte was arrested amid claims he stole millions from public
Karime Macías’s husband was once one of Mexico’s most powerful men, but when he went missing in 2016 – amid accusations that he had pilfered millions of dollars of public funds – it seemed her life of Riley had come to an end.
[Read More]Sexual pleasure a gift from God but avoid porn, Pope Francis advises | Pope Francis
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
Pope Francis‘Sexual pleasure a gift from God’ but avoid porn, Pope Francis advisesPontiff thought be be responding to conservative critics after sexually explicit book by cardinal resurfaces “Sexual pleasure is a gift from God” but Catholics must avoid pornography, Pope Francis has said.
The pontiff made the remarks during a catechesis devoted to the “vice of lust” at his general audience in Saint Peter’s Square on Wednesday.
Sexual pleasure was something to be cherished, he said, but it was being “undermined by pornography”, and “satisfaction without a relationship can generate forms of addiction”.
[Read More]Tottenham cling on to beat battling Everton thanks to Son and Vicario | Premier League
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
The ObserverPremier LeagueTottenham cling on to beat battling Everton thanks to Son and VicarioIt was an afternoon when Tottenham scored their goals early and found they were enough. They came from the former Everton striker Richarlison, for whom it is now four in three games, and the inevitable Son Heung-min. So, three Premier League wins out of three for Spurs; their recent wobble feeling further and further away.
It barely scratched the surface in terms of the real story, which was one of Everton domination that brought a finale loaded with drama.
[Read More]A letter to my estranged daughter
Posted on June 11, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
A letter to ...FamilyThe letter you always wanted to writeIt's nearly three years since I heard your voice on the telephone, nearly two years since I heard your voice from the other side of your front door. A small, frightened whisper, which, though I knew it to be in your voice, didn't seem like you at all. I sat for nearly three hours in the rain on your doorstep, hoping we could talk, if only through the door; I hoped you would come to the station to find me before I went back.
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