Until I read this interesting book, I had no idea that the postcode in which I live in northeast Essex is the finest terroir for wine in the country. It was all I could do to resist ripping up the lawn and planting vines. Indeed, Henry Jeffreys quotes one of the country’s leading authorities on English wine as saying that ‘England’s answer to Château Pétrus’ could be found somewhere in Essex. Of course it could. Jeffreys has talked to key people in the English wine
I’m lucky. I came of age in the 1990s, when Reeves and Mortimer were on a run of form so inspired they could occasionally make you fear for your sanity, when by cross-pollinating Richard Pryor with Monty Python, Eddie Izzard could tunnel logical wormholes that began at Robert Burns and ended at The Italian Job […]
This summer, Arnold Schwarzenegger can be seen shooting bad guys in a Netflix series, FUBAR, and Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren can be seen shooting bad guys in a film, Expend4bles. Even in 2023, it seems, audiences still haven’t entirely got over their love affair with the terrifyingly muscled actors who punched, stabbed and machine-gunned their way to superstardom in the 1980s, usually with their shirts off. It’s a love affair charted in Nick de Semlyen’s The Last Action Heroes. Having whisked through the CVs
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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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