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Thursday, 12th November (Cambridge)
Michael Lewis (left) in conversation with Larry Kramer, President and Vice Chancellor of the LSE. Photo: Roy Cross 1. I went to the LSE on Monday evening to hear Michael Lewis discuss his new book, Blockers, with Larry Kramer, who … Continue reading
Tuesday, 10th November (Cambridge)
Photo of Sir Demis Hassabis in 2025 by Christopher Michel / Cmichel67, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. 1. At a recent event at the Royal Society of Arts in London, Sir Demis Hassabis gave a talk on The AI … Continue reading
Thursday, 5th November (Cambridge)
Andreas Malm last year with Gustavo Petro, the President of Colombia at the time: a rather different governmental response from the UK’s current one. Photo: Juan Diego Cano / Presidencia de Colombia, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 1. I went … Continue reading
Tuesday, 3rd November (Cambridge)
I’m not telling who this is just yet. Photo by Hugo van Gelderen (Anefo), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons 1. The US mid-term elections are today. This story by Kellen Browning was a real scoop last Wednesday for The New York … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Alabama', 16th Street Baptist Church, bipolar disorder, Heston Blumenthal, Magna Charta Universitatum, N A T E S O L, Universities must show they are for society as a whole, US mid-terms, What Does It Mean to Be a Competent Language Teacher in the Age of AI?
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Thursday, 29th October (Cambridge)
photo (c) Riverford Organic Farmers 1. We get a vegetable box from Riverford most weeks, maybe not quite as overflowingly full as the one in the photo from their website above! (In case you were wondering, which you may not … Continue reading
Tuesday, 27th October (Cambridge)
Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler in Fatherland (dir. Paweł Pawlikowski, 2026). Image © MUBI, used for the purpose of review 1. We saw another film about recent German history on Sunday, Fatherland, directed by Paweł Pawlikowski. It’s a broadly factually … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Fatherland', AI and mathematicians, der kugelschreiber, the new Kevin Bacon
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Thursday, 22nd October (Cambridge)
Mica Levi, Sandra Hüller, Jonathan Glazer, Christian Friedel and Łukasz Żal at the press conference for The Zone of Interest, Cannes Film Festival, 20 May 2023. Canal 22, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1. We’ve seen two films in … Continue reading
Tuesday, 20th October (Cambridge)
Anish Kapoor, Ha Makom (2026), installation view, Hayward Gallery, London. © Anish Kapoor. All rights reserved, DACS, 2026. Photo: Roy Cross 1. We went to see the Anish Kapoor show at the Hayward Gallery on Saturday and we now know … Continue reading
Tuesday, 13th October (Cambridge)
Books destined for Cameroon: more info at item 3 below! © Harry Kuchah Kuchah 1. SHORT NOTICE! There’s an IH London webinar with Florencia Giudici at 16:30 UK time this Wednesday, 14th October, Engaging teens through Authentic Audiovisual Materials. You’ll … Continue reading
Thursday, 8th October (Cambridge)
The ‘Seventy Up’ programme I mention below that we watched recently reminded me that the participants in the series are my exact contemporaries. This is a photo of me aged seven grinning out from the brick setting of the asbestos-lined … Continue reading
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Tagged backgammon, Cognitive decline, Elif Shafak, Seventy Up, sugar rationing, zionism
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