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@nybooks.com Anyone read All Fours by Miranda July? Here’s my take on it… fictionofrelations.wordpress.com/2025/01/12/a...
All Fours by Miranda July
I listened to this book on Audible because, apparently, it radically changed a lot of women’s lives in the United States, and threatened to free women from the patriarchy in their perimenopau…
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January 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
@nybooks.com Anyone read All Fours by Miranda July? Here’s my take on it… fictionofrelations.wordpress.com/2025/01/12/a...
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A teeny weeny 2% tax on Britain’s super rich would raise £24 billion.
Think of all the good we could with a sum like that - and it would only ever so slightly make the tax system more fair - plenty of room for improvement after that.
Think of all the good we could with a sum like that - and it would only ever so slightly make the tax system more fair - plenty of room for improvement after that.
January 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A teeny weeny 2% tax on Britain’s super rich would raise £24 billion.
Think of all the good we could with a sum like that - and it would only ever so slightly make the tax system more fair - plenty of room for improvement after that.
Think of all the good we could with a sum like that - and it would only ever so slightly make the tax system more fair - plenty of room for improvement after that.
Nice end to the year…
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December 30, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Nice end to the year…
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The latest dispatch from our Art Editor, Leanne Shapton
Wintry Mix | Leanne Shapton
A dispatch from the Art Editor
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December 23, 2024 at 8:29 PM
The latest dispatch from our Art Editor, Leanne Shapton
@booksky.bsky.social @nybooks.com Entertaining new book by Tessa Hadley, The Party. Two sisters deflowered by the same sleazeball in the 1950s with a lot to say about female education! fictionofrelations.wordpress.com/2024/11/12/t...
The Party by Tessa Hadley
After revisiting sexual relationships in the swinging 60s in Free Love, Tessa Hadley is looking back to the 1950s in her latest novella, The Party. It is called a novella simply because it is too s…
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December 3, 2024 at 12:41 PM
@booksky.bsky.social @nybooks.com Entertaining new book by Tessa Hadley, The Party. Two sisters deflowered by the same sleazeball in the 1950s with a lot to say about female education! fictionofrelations.wordpress.com/2024/11/12/t...
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#booksky Jonathan Coe’s latest novel is located during the short lived political regime of Liz Truss. It’s a strange read, flirting with notions of truth and reality, and contemplating life as fiction and, probably, fiction as life. Read more… fictionofrelations.wordpress.com/2024/08/01/t...
The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe
After setting a previous novel, Middle England, against the turbulence of the EU Brexit referendum, Jonathan Coe’s latest novel is located during the short lived political regime of Liz Truss…
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December 2, 2024 at 12:00 AM
#booksky Jonathan Coe’s latest novel is located during the short lived political regime of Liz Truss. It’s a strange read, flirting with notions of truth and reality, and contemplating life as fiction and, probably, fiction as life. Read more… fictionofrelations.wordpress.com/2024/08/01/t...
#booksky Jonathan Coe’s latest novel is located during the short lived political regime of Liz Truss. It’s a strange read, flirting with notions of truth and reality, and contemplating life as fiction and, probably, fiction as life. Read more… fictionofrelations.wordpress.com/2024/08/01/t...
The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe
After setting a previous novel, Middle England, against the turbulence of the EU Brexit referendum, Jonathan Coe’s latest novel is located during the short lived political regime of Liz Truss…
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December 2, 2024 at 12:00 AM
#booksky Jonathan Coe’s latest novel is located during the short lived political regime of Liz Truss. It’s a strange read, flirting with notions of truth and reality, and contemplating life as fiction and, probably, fiction as life. Read more… fictionofrelations.wordpress.com/2024/08/01/t...
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Revealed: UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’ with 10% of donations from dubious sources
Cash from dictatorships and shell companies is entering the political system via legal loopholes.
When you launder the world’s money, this doesn’t come as a surprise..
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cash from dictatorships and shell companies is entering the political system via legal loopholes.
When you launder the world’s money, this doesn’t come as a surprise..
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Revealed: UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’ with 10% of donations from dubious sources
Cash from dictatorships and shell companies is entering the political system via legal loopholes
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Revealed: UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’ with 10% of donations from dubious sources
Cash from dictatorships and shell companies is entering the political system via legal loopholes.
When you launder the world’s money, this doesn’t come as a surprise..
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cash from dictatorships and shell companies is entering the political system via legal loopholes.
When you launder the world’s money, this doesn’t come as a surprise..
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nice summary of key issues.
I thought his speech was the most interesting. Particularly the ‘most doctors in terminal care’ comment.
November 30, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Nice summary of key issues.
@nybooks.com my books of the month: Time of the Child by Niall Williams and The Proof of my Innocence by Jonathan Coe. See my reviews on The Fiction of Relationships. fictionofrelations.wordpress.com
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November 11, 2024 at 6:48 PM
@nybooks.com my books of the month: Time of the Child by Niall Williams and The Proof of my Innocence by Jonathan Coe. See my reviews on The Fiction of Relationships. fictionofrelations.wordpress.com