The BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner explains how the US blockade of Iranian ports will work. ...
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Art, sex, nature: why is everything sold to us as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself?Art, sex, nature: why is everything sold to us as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself?
How a reductive worldview is stripping meaning from our most valued activities This article was originally published as The six-second hug on Aeon.co For decades, films out of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios have opened with Leo the roaring lion, garlanded with the motto ars gratia artis: art for art’s sake. Given that MGM ...
My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy review – wonderfully entertainingMy Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy review – wonderfully entertaining
Biography mingles with fiction as Levy explores the avant-garde writer through the story of three female friends in Paris The narrator of Deborah Levy’s witty scherzo of a “fiction” – “novel” isn’t the word for this uncategorisable book – thinks that Gertrude Stein would have liked Sigmund Freud. She imagines ...
‘My life has become a rollercoaster’: Francesca Albanese on death threats, danger and dread after accusing Israel of genocide‘My life has become a rollercoaster’: Francesca Albanese on death threats, danger and dread after accusing Israel of genocide
When the UN special rapporteur published her report Anatomy of a Genocide in March 2024, she was lionised by some and demonised by the Trump government. She describes what happened next In retrospect, arranging to interview Francesca Albanese in a cafe was not the best plan. Before we could start, ...
‘These flowers have witnessed horrific things’: Steve McQueen’s bountiful Grenada – in pictures‘These flowers have witnessed horrific things’: Steve McQueen’s bountiful Grenada – in pictures
The artist and film-maker spent a summer on the island making poetic images of the local flora – and exploring their connections to Grenada’s historical trauma Continue reading… ...
Viktor Orbán inspired rightwingers across the EU and in Britain. His defeat could represent a turning of the tide | Polly ToynbeeViktor Orbán inspired rightwingers across the EU and in Britain. His defeat could represent a turning of the tide | Polly Toynbee
We must hope this vote will be the start of a wider backlash – and send hard-right populism back to the fringes where it belongs The forces of darkness rolled back on Sunday. The mighty combined power of Vladimir Putin’s Russia and Donald Trump’s America were defeated in Hungary, as ...
Lebanon seeks peace, but Hezbollah needs to be convinced firstLebanon seeks peace, but Hezbollah needs to be convinced first
The Lebanese government go into peace talks with limited influence over the group. ...
Bessent: US should ‘wait and see’ before lowering interest ratesBessent: US should ‘wait and see’ before lowering interest rates
The News The Federal Reserve should “wait and see” before deciding whether to lower interest rates amid the war in Iran, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday at Semafor World Economy in Washington, DC. “Do I think rates should be lowered? Eventually. I think now that we have to ...
One hedge fund is pitching a fix to SpaceX’s IPO deluge: Shorten employee lockup periodsOne hedge fund is pitching a fix to SpaceX’s IPO deluge: Shorten employee lockup periods
As we scooped last week, bankers have been puzzling over how to handle the tsunami of selling — more than $1 trillion at the valuation being discussed — that would hit the market six months after the IPO, if the company pursued a traditional insider “lock-up.” They are considering ways ...
Watchdog investigates 11 police officers over handling of Wimbledon school crashWatchdog investigates 11 police officers over handling of Wimbledon school crash
The families of Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau, who died at an end-of-term tea party, say the initial investigation was flawed. ...