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Human tragedy of slavery & Slaveship’s fight for Emancipation

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The Predator of the Seas is the dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighter – which brings new insights into Britain’s involvement in the end of the trade in enslaved people. HMS Black Joe, ex-slaver turned scourge of the transatlantic trade, is the story of the slave ship sent on a moral crusade. The Brazilian slave ship Henriqueta had no cause for alarm when it spotted the British frigate Sybille early on September 6, 1827, just off the West coast of Africa. Sybille was a sluggish 44-gun warship nearing the end of her lifespan, while Henriqueta was a sleek Baltimore … Continue reading Human tragedy of slavery & Slaveship’s fight for Emancipation

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BERYL COOK: A PRIVATE VIEW Finborough Theatre Earls Court.

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Fresh from The Edinburgh Festival – BERYL COOK: A PRIVATE VIEW Finborough Theatre Earls Court. http://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk– “Probably the most influential fringe theatre in the world” (Time Out). 1 Oct to 26 Oct. Please see times and prices on the website.WHEN ART AND ACTING MEET AND SHAKE HANDS Written performed and painted by KARA WILSON Wife of renowned actor Tom Conti and writer and performer in several plays, Kara Wilson does a show involving painting a Beryl Cook piece of artwork which can be bought at a later date by admirers. The title of the artwork done live on stage is … Continue reading BERYL COOK: A PRIVATE VIEW Finborough Theatre Earls Court.

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Concept of leisure fraught with class tension

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The Bookshop is a history of British Institution in crisis with rich historical vignettes and surprising wares.As spaces where local life and culture unfolds, our high streets can be playgrounds of personal indulgence and community spirit or sites of contentious debate and politicking. Peeping through the windows of tailors, tearooms and grocers, we explore everything from the toyshops of yesteryears where curiosities were sold for adults not children to the birth of brands we shop at today. Three-Hundred- years of shopping which takes in sex, snobbery, and moral panics. Josiah Wedgwood has a vision for china, and even better to … Continue reading Concept of leisure fraught with class tension

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Lust while the daylight dims

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Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age. Our evenings the flames of gutter and dwindle pleading for a snuffer. The author’s own life spanning from 1960s boarding school to the scoundrel times of just yesterday, graphic explanations of cosiness battles with lust  amid dimming of the daylight.  … Continue reading Lust while the daylight dims

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World of uncertainty

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As luck would have it nothing in this world is certain accept death, taxes and uncertainty. From Breakfast to AI replacing human, the human condition is full of uncertainty. Britain’s most eminent statistician, David Spiegelhalter believes “ is all about us, but, like the air we breathe, it tends to remain unexamined.” His previous book in 2019, The Art of Statistics was a bestseller, during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Cambridge university emeritus professor of statistics acquired national treasure status as he helped an anxious nation to interpret the data. For over 5000 years from Greek to Mongolia humanity had fancied … Continue reading World of uncertainty

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Media credulousness fuelled Trump’s rise

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Donald Trump do not involve paying hush money to a porn star or conspiring to subvert 2020 election, and his notion that he is a self-made billionaire who personifies the American dream.  Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever. Drawing on over twenty years’ worth of Trump’s confidential tax information, including the tax returns he tried to conceal, alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders, New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne … Continue reading Media credulousness fuelled Trump’s rise

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AO acquires musicMagpie

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Bolton-headquartered AO board has agreed a deal to buy musicMagpie,  a Stockport, North West electronics retailer headquartered recommerce firm at £10million, a fraction of its market capitalisation at IPO in 2021, as it floated with a share price of 193p representing a market cap of £208 million. musicMagpie’s directors have recommended the offer of 9.07 pence in cash per share to its shareholders and claim to have secured the backing of investors representing 54 per cent of the entire issued share capital. The offer represents  a premium of 58 per cent to the closing price of 5.75p per share on … Continue reading AO acquires musicMagpie

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World’s Richest Woman

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Francois Bettencourt Meyers L’Oreal,  France $92.5 billion   Alice Walton Walmart, USA $90.3 billion   Julia Koch Koch Inc, USA $74.2 billion   Jacuqeline Mars` Mars Inc, USA $47.6 billion   Savitri Jindal Jindal Steel, India $43.7 billion Francoise Bettencourt Meyers is the world’s richest woman after surpassing Walmart scion Alice Walton last Thursday. Meyers, the granddaughter of the founder of L’Oreal, whose estimated net worth grew to $93.1 billion while Walton’s dropped to $90.4 billion, secured the title boosted by a massive spike in European luxury goods that reacted positively to an economic stimulus package committed to China. Continue reading World’s Richest Woman

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Catriona Robertson at The Muse Gallery

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Catriona Robertson at The Muse Gallery 269 Portobello Road W11 1LR until20 October 2024.www.themuseat269.com – prices range from £20 to severalthousand.An interesting background story to the creation of these works of art…readon… Catriona is fascinated by the idea of the urban landscape as a collage. She is inspired by how over time architecture forms an urban geology where layers of history are built on top of foundations. Her work responds to theinterconnectedness of nature and the city as a landscape resulting in sculptures that embody an architectural imprint. There is a subterranean network of hidden cities beneath us, organic intertwined … Continue reading Catriona Robertson at The Muse Gallery

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Bot-distributed misinformation

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Supremacy is  behind-the scenes story of the ruthless shadow battle between Microsoft and Google and their AI companies, their struggles to use their tech for good and the dangerous direction that they’re now going.  Human brain power outstripped by AI. Five years ago no one had heard of Open AI. Now the research firm is powering Microsoft’s software, writing everything from code to school essays and bot-distributed misinformation. In Supremacy AI, ChatGPT and the Race that Will Change the World, journalist Parmy Olson  carefully tracks the rise of two young companies, – the American OpenAI and the British rival DeepMind, … Continue reading Bot-distributed misinformation