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Priests have blessed armies and weapons, and sanctioned executions and massacres, but never so widely as in Putin’s Russia.
Donald Rayfield on the history of Russian Orthodoxy.
Donald Rayfield - Clerics & Crooks
Donald Rayfield: Clerics & Crooks - The Baton and the Cross: Russia’s Church from Pagans to Putin by Lucy Ash
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Are children being burned out by endless exams? Or does rising inequality lie behind the mental health crisis in young people today?
@Samfr investigates.
Sam Freedman - The Kids Aren’t Alright
Sam Freedman: The Kids Aren’t Alright - Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation by Danny Dorling;...
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Augustus the Strong’s name has long been a byword for dissipation. Yet he was also a great patron of the arts, creating in Dresden perhaps the finest Baroque city in Europe.
Ritchie Robertson examines the two sides of his personality.
Ritchie Robertson - All for the Thrill of the Chase
Ritchie Robertson: All for the Thrill of the Chase - Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco by Tim Blanning
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