Author Archives: aestheticnomad
Post-Brexit visa rules a ‘disaster’ for arts, says Edinburgh festival director
Families facing income woes on a par with Greece and Cyprus? That’s ‘global Britain’
Families facing income woes on a par with Greece and Cyprus? That’s ‘global Britain’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/05/families-income-growth-greece-cyprus-global-britain?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Tory contempt for the arts means we face a second dark age
Tory contempt for the arts means we face a second dark age
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/03/tory-contempt-for-the-arts-means-we-face-a-second-dark-age?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
‘A massive betrayal’: how London’s Olympic legacy was sold out
From Thatcher to Johnson: how right to buy has fuelled a 40-year housing crisis
BBC NEWS: Deborah James ‘taught us how to live and how to die’
Deborah James ‘taught us how to live and how to die’
Friends and colleagues pay tribute to podcast host Dame Deborah James, who has died at the age of 40.
Read in BBC News: https://apple.news/ACPFqxyrlRSilnsx6nC3lhQ
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Women must be allowed to defend abortion as a sex-based right
Women must be allowed to defend abortion as a sex-based right
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/26/women-must-be-allowed-to-defend-abortion-as-a-sex-based-right?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
‘My career is finished, my friends are in prison and I’m an alien in my city’: life after Hong Kong’s Apple Daily
‘My career is finished, my friends are in prison and I’m an alien in my city’: life after Hong Kong’s Apple Daily
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jun/24/norman-choi-apple-daily-hong-kong-china-alien-in-a-strange-city?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
LBC: James O’Brien schools Leave voter who asks him to stop mentioning Brexit
James O’Brien schools Leave voter who asks him to stop mentioning Brexit
James O’Brien had a firm response to this Leave voter who asked him to stop mentioning Brexit because it was “unbelievably boring” and “almost childlike”.
Read in LBC: https://apple.news/At3-ig3E9T9WKYL3aE72_YA
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INEWS: Brexit referendum six years on: 4 biggest wins and losses from leaving the EU for Boris Johnson’s Government
Brexit referendum six years on: 4 biggest wins and losses from leaving the EU for Boris Johnson’s Government
From taking back control to getting new free trade agreements, i takes a look at whether Vote Leave’s promises have come to fruition
Read in inews: https://apple.news/AYnkXcI6BTpmxBEjXMKgs5g
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The Sainsbury Wing redesign: spare us the art-world good taste
The Sainsbury Wing redesign: spare us the art-world good taste
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jun/19/the-sainsbury-wing-redesign-spare-us-the-art-world-good-taste?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Architecture students deserve better than toxic cultures and sleepless nights
Architecture students deserve better than toxic cultures and sleepless nights
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/18/architecture-students-deserve-better-than-toxic-cultures-and-sleepless-nights?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
CNN: How I survived 70 days confinement in the world’s toughest Covid lockdown
How I survived 70 days confinement in the world’s toughest Covid lockdown
In Hong Kong, Omicron was running amok, but in Shanghai cases were still in the single digits and with China’s iron-fisted approach to infections it seemed reasonable to think things would stay that way. That was my first mistake.
Read in CNN: https://apple.news/AsvQOMt8HSAWv6rTSh2kdwg
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Jean-Louis Trintignant, star of A Man and a Woman and Amour, dies aged 91
Jean-Louis Trintignant, star of A Man and a Woman and Amour, dies aged 91
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/17/jean-louis-trintignant-star-of-a-man-and-a-woman-and-amour-dies-aged-91?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other