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Diagnosis of Xi Jinping, Putin and Trump – warns of a second Weimar-like era 

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In Waste Land, geopolitics veteran commentator, Robert Kaplan’s wide-angled vision of our chaotic, globalised world, where present crises resonate with past tyrannies, and assess the outlook for the 21st century, and reveals the society is  a hair’s breath away from the abyss. Donald Trump is taking office amid mini Trumps elsewhere, as steely autocrats steer Russia and China. We are entering a new era of global cataclysm, a deadly mix of war, climate change, great power rivalry, rapid technological advancement, and the end of empire. Kaplan explains incisively how we got here and where we are going. His trademark sweep of history, … Continue reading Diagnosis of Xi Jinping, Putin and Trump – warns of a second Weimar-like era 

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Drug addict in Harlem rubble, surviving miraculously

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Richard Price, American author and screenwriter write crime fiction with a social conscience giving us razor-sharp anatomy of an ever-changing Harlem. In Lazarus Man, Richard Price, creates intertwining portraits of a group of compelling and singular characters whose lives are permanently impacted by the disaster. East Harlem, in 2008, a five-storey tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble, pancaking the cars parked in front and coating the street with a thick layer of ash, resulting in several deaths. Anthony Carter, a recovering drug addict is retrieved from the rubble buried for days beneath tons of brick and stone, some … Continue reading Drug addict in Harlem rubble, surviving miraculously

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Insight into lost world

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Travel writer Norman Lewis spent a whole life of writing inscrutably on the road, revealing th world in all its unspoiled beauty, also reflecting a world now totally lost to us, from Yemen of the Imams to bandit chieftains, Neapolitan men of honour and tribal chieftains in Central America, as well as darker scenes: the doomed cultures of French rule in Indo-China, Cossaks being sent home to their death and the quiet holocaust of the indigenous peoples in the jungles of South America. Lewis (1908-2003) was the author of 15 novels and 20 works of non-fiction. The author descirbes “The … Continue reading Insight into lost world

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Our fathers never taught us to be fathers…

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Chilean poet Alejandro Zambra, in Childish Literature, writes a collection of poems, essays and tales exploring the ups and downs of fatherhood especially orbiting around the theme of fathers and sons. Written in a state of attachment or under the influence of fatherhood, Childish Literature is an eclectic guide to rookie parents, revealing how the birth and growth of a child changes not only the present and the future, but also reshapes our perceptions of the past.   He ponders his unpreparedness: “Our fathers tried, in their own ways, to teach us to be men, but they never taught us to … Continue reading Our fathers never taught us to be fathers…

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Complex emotional poems

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Professor Carol Ann Duffy DBE, captures the truth of each experience whether writing of longing or seduction, of passion, adultery, or simple everyday acts of love.  Carol Ann Duffy wrote one of the most popular love poet, which is imaginative, heartfelt and direct about love and relationships exploring the notion of romantic love in the context of relationship, with complex emotion. The speaker of the poem offers her lover an onion as a Valentine’s gift not a conventional gift like stain hearts or roses. Her poems diaplays all the eloquence and skill that have made her one of the foremost … Continue reading Complex emotional poems

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Sheldon Edwards, London-based designer barber

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Qatar Airways flies in Sheldon Edwards of HD Cutz, a favourite among celebrities to cut their hair in the paddocks of Doha Formula One. His visitors at F1 paddock stall in Doha ahead of the race included Nowak Djokovic, Rio Ferdinand and several others who sat in the brown leather chair and got their hair styled for viral looks. Sheldon Edwards started from humble beginnings in Clarendon, Jamaica, and expanded to renting barber chair spots all over UK, with the flagship shop at Battersea, 103a Lavender Hill, London SW11 5QL. Sheldon is a third-generation British-Jamaican barber who first hated cutting … Continue reading Sheldon Edwards, London-based designer barber

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Elizabeth Nunez who explored the legacy of colonialism dies aged 80

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Elizabeth Nunez (80), a Trinidad-born writer whose novels explored the legacy of colonialism and the immigrant’s longing for home – while making fun a American academia and New York City’s publishing world – died of a stroke on Friday at her home in Brooklyn. Elizabeth Ann Nunez was born on Feb 18 1944, in Port of Spain, the capital city of Trinidad and Tobago, one of 11 chidren of Una Magdalena (Arneaud) Nunez and Waldo Everette Nunez. Her father was a Junior officer in the ministry of labor: who late become the commissioner of labor, and then an executive at … Continue reading Elizabeth Nunez who explored the legacy of colonialism dies aged 80

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Lauren Goldie

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Muse Gallery – FUTURESCAPE – Lauren Goldie until 17 November 2024269 Portobello Road London W11 1LR http://www.themuse@269.comhttp://www.laurengoldie.com Check for opening times before setting off. Nearest tube is Ladbroke Grove.Lauren is a graduate of the annual Muse Residency programme. She is also a PHD Researcher at Central St Martins and is continuing her interest in speculative technologies and potential environmental consequences of asteroid mining.Lauren employs artistic practices to represent distant space entities and excavation processes. Futurescape is directly representative of a NASA sample retrieval mission to the asteroid Bennu and the MISSE – Materials International Space Station Experiment. The presentation of … Continue reading Lauren Goldie

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Thriller

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Spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of West’s spy war with the Soviets Strewn across Europe, he has eyes on a more peaceful life. With his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumour in Whitehall – unconfirmed and a little scandalous – that George Smiley might almost be happy, with some quality time with is wandering wife Anne. But when Hungarian assassin, sent to London to dispatch Laszlo Banati an émigré Magyar agent, has a sudden change of heart and switches sides, Simley is back called back to investigate to find … Continue reading Thriller

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Shifting tides of society

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A novella composed as a triptych, about two sisters and a night that changes everything, from the master chronicler of our heart’s hidden desires. Evelyn had the surprising thought that bodies were sometimes wiser than people inside them. She’d have like to impress somebody with this idea, but couldn’t explain it. On a Winter Saturday night in post-war Bristol, bringing to life with its docks, bombed out streets and crumbling grand houses, with ever moving sea and endless rain act as brooding backdrops and metaphors for the characters’ emotional turbulence. Sisters Moira and Evelyn, newly middle class,  their mother a … Continue reading Shifting tides of society