Within two pages of starting Nicholas Clee’s racecourse odyssey you know him to be a true member of the racing tribe, a man who, with a betting ticket on the favourite in his pocket, will still cheer home a winning outsider because it is a once-famous horse recovered from injury or is ridden by a […]
In the years before the pandemic, Nice airport, which once boasted a single runway with a converted villa as its terminal, was welcoming around thirteen million sun-seeking visitors a year. Jet fumes spewed grime into the Riviera’s azure skies as engines roared above the Baie des Anges – named, as Jonathan Miles tells readers in […]
The seaside is close to the heart of what it is to be English and everything in this beautifully written book stems from that. Some intellectuals say that in the context of the United Kingdom as a whole, England barely exists, but what they really mean is that they can’t find a single representative idea, […]
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Knowledge of Sufism increased markedly with the publication in 1964 of The Sufis, by Idries Shah. Nowadays his writings, much like his father’s, are dismissed for their Orientalism and inaccuracy.
@fitzmorrissey investigates who the Shahs really were.
Fitzroy Morrissey - Sufism Goes West
Fitzroy Morrissey: Sufism Goes West - Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah by Nile Green
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Rats have plagued cities for centuries. But in Baltimore, researchers alighted on one surprising solution to the problem of rat infestation: more rats.
@WillWiles looks at what lessons can be learned from rat ecosystems – for both rats and humans.
Will Wiles - Puss Gets the Boot
Will Wiles: Puss Gets the Boot - Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B ...
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Twisters features destructive tempests and blockbuster action sequences.
@JonathanRomney asks what the real danger is in Lee Isaac Chung's disaster movie.
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