Showing posts with label George Eliot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Eliot. Show all posts
Monday, March 23, 2026

The Joy of Six 1493

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"Australian politics is beautifully, exquisitely, delightfully boring. It is boring in the way it used to be back home - sane, predicta...
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A report from the expedition to Ed Davey's hinterland

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Ed Davey has chosen his favourite books for This Week . I don't know what the precise brief was, but he came up with a list of six novel...
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Monday, May 13, 2024

The Joy of Six 1228

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"AI skeptics - who are legion, and not necessarily part of the fringe tin foil hat crowd - are begging Silicon Valley to take a beat be...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

Two per cent of GCSE students study literature by female authors

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I saw a tweet by Wera Hobhouse , the Liberal Democrat MP for Bath, in support of the End Sexism in Schools campaign. It said that, "sh...
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Thursday, August 20, 2020

Six of the Best 951

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John Harris says the Tories are creating a cookie-cutter Britain: "Anyone who has watched what has happened to British housing will kn...
Thursday, July 02, 2020

Six of the Best 940

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"In a move that suggests its back to business as usual punishing people on benefits, a three-month suspension of sanctions introduc...
Saturday, November 16, 2019

Six of the Best 894

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Alan Rice finds Black American troops were welcome in Britain during the second world war, but Jim Crow wasn't: "The pub was a p...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

In Our Time on Middlemarch

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There was a cracking In Our Time on George Eliot's Middlemarch this morning. (An edited version will be broadcast this evening at 9.3...
Sunday, March 06, 2016

The Stains: Bored

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I came across a tweet the other day that suggested the actor David Hemmings had lived briefly in Shrewsbury High Street. That is hard to r...
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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Six of the Best 414

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Karen Wilkinson on Liberal Democrat Voice updates us on the campaign against the government's enthusiasm for fining or jailing parent...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

Liberal England book quiz: Twenty opening sentences

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A little fun for the Christmas season. Below are the opening sentences of 20 works of fiction (a handful of them written for children). Plea...
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Sunday, September 17, 2006

Harriet Smith remembered

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The Liberal Democrat Conference has just opened with Duncan Brack paying tribute to Harriet Smith, who died recently. He quoted the closin...