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The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.

Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · 12d

In which Isaac Chotiner interviews a bowl of jelly and the bowl of jelly has a small realisation at the end. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Can Liberalism Be Saved?

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In paintings such as The Communist, a Political Meeting, the Welsh painter Evan Walters captured the hopes and fears of working-class communities, writes Patrick McGuinness

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · Sep 3

Glad to be in this month's Apollo, writing about Evan Walters's The Communist (c.1932): colour, ideas, Wales. Also mentioned: chapels, gospels and preachers (including the Manic Street variety), & being sceptical of rhetoric, like the little chap at the front.
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Miner miracle

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Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · Aug 26

Doesn’t seem that inchoate to me, unfortunately.

Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · Aug 11

I’m not either of those, but Pieter the Elder dropped the ‘h’ and his descendants put it back. Mentions of members of the family close together can look strange – but some people mind a lot (as I once learnt the hard way).

Tom Lehrer, master of the musical art

Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · Jul 28

I’ve written something about Tom Lehrer for @apollo-magazine.com as a very small token of appreciation for his marvellous songs apollo-magazine.com/tom-lehrer-s...

The satirist who combined musical wit with political conscience and pure silliness has died at the age of 97. Fatema Ahmed sings his praises

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Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · Jul 27

We absolutely loved Tom Lehrer in our house.

Andor and the antiquities trade | Apollo Magazine

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · Jun 27

I am the only one with clarity of purpose! For @apollo-magazine.com , I provide the "Andor" take that really matters: a look at Luthen Rael's antiques business apollo-magazine.com/andor-luthen...

In the <i>Star Wars</i> series about the creation of the rebellion, Stellan Skarsgård’s art dealer/spymaster is perfectly placed to understand the inner workings of empire, writes Will Wiles

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Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · Jun 23

From now on, all explanations of rank-choice voting must be in Bengali (heavy Hindi inflections optional) and through the medium of Bengali sweets.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jun 22

আর অবশ্যই — আমাদের প্রিয় সিটি কাউন্সিল সদস্য, জেলা ৩৯-এর শাহানা হানিফ-কে আবারও নির্বাচিত করুন।
And of course — re-elect our beloved City Council Member from District 39, Shahana Hanif.

চলুন একসাথে ভোট দিই — এক হাসি-খুশি নিউ ইয়র্ক-এর জন্য।
Let’s vote together — for a hashi khushi New York. 🇧🇩🗽

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Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · Jun 16

We don’t actually know that they haven’t…

Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · Jun 16

A former head of MI6 says that what the new head of MI6 will be really good at is 'understanding how we operate in the nexus between man and machine’.

‘Self-doubt, which is a cousin to self-hatred, became my constant companion.’

Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · Jun 11

A lovely way of putting it

Libération @liberation.fr · Jun 11

⚫ Mort de Brian Wilson, cofondateur des Beach Boys : sous la plage le génie

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · Jun 9

Sly Stone and Frederick Forsyth. The 20th Century was eclectic.

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Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · Jun 4

‘life even for a part-time homosexual was hard enough during the Eisenhower years’ – from a brilliant piece of memoir granta.com/shrinks/

Shrinks

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Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · Jun 4

I’ve judged all dealings with writers by Edmund White, who couldn’t have been more charming to a green assistant, or more professional with everyone. The Farewell Symphony is a great novel. RIP a brilliant ‘public-library intellectual’ (as he described himself more than once).

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Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · Jun 2

The latter is what lost them Runcorn and Helsby. Promising the former is what, in their deluded minds, will get it back.

Maintaining Eileen Gray | Apollo Magazine

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · May 28

For @apollo-magazine.com I wrote about Beatrice Minger's new film about Eileen Gray's E1027, and the strange paradox of Gray's reputation, which must be continually rediscovered www.apollo-magazine.com/eileen-gray-...

The designer was a genius but, as a new film shows, her achievements still have to be untangled from the men who kept getting in her way, writes Will Wiles

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Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · May 25

For the FT, I spoke to the painter Rachel Jones before the opening of her exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery www.ft.com/content/8f8b...

Rachel Jones – art-world Road Runner

The 34-year-old artist has enjoyed a frantic ascent, part-inspired by cartoon heroes. A new exhibition finds her as animated as ever

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Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · May 13

‘We have a bonus scheme to protect our most precious resource, which is the senior management team’ – the chair of Thames Water www.ft.com/content/1f6d...

Thames Water executives to receive bonuses from £3bn emergency loan

Utility’s chair tells MPs that retention payments are needed to prevent rivals ‘picking off’ staff

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Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · May 11

You can already hear the effects of the cuts to the World Service because it has to repeat so much material - but its news is still better than anything else the BBC puts out.

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Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · May 7

Perhaps the corgis in relief on the Queen Mother’s monument on the Mall are all the corgis we get.

Poetic justice for the Parthenon marbles | Apollo Magazine

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · Apr 28

In her new book, ‘Frieze Frame’, @aestallings.bsky.social collects the responses of poets and artists to the Parthenon marbles since the early 19th century. She talks to @hekale.bsky.social about why they now deserve a new lease of cultural life www.apollo-magazine.com/ae-stallings...

In ‘Frieze Frame’, A.E. Stallings collects the responses of poets and artists to the marbles. She explains to Fatema Ahmed why they now deserve a new lease of life

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Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · Apr 15

Contents page as time capsule granta.com/products/gra...

Granta 36: Vargas Llosa for President

The novelist’s personal account of his campaign for the presidency of Peru. Plus: Alvaro Vargas...

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Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social · Apr 13

Martin Puchner’s ‘Poetry of the Revolution’ is good on the manifesto-issuing ones.