John Phipps
@John__Phipps
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Contributing Writer @1843magazine. "What I have written I have written."
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Joined September 2019
When I started looking into Carlo Acutis, the ‘millenial saint’ taking the Catholic world by storm, I was expecting to do a whimsical piece about what it meant to be a saint in the digital era. What I found was something rather different: https://t.co/VbzwrXq4EZ
economist.com
The Vatican wants him to be the next Mother Teresa. But what did Carlo Acutis really believe?
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The great Richard Holmes has a new book out, about how Tennyson articulated the epistemic anguish that scientific knowledge inflicted on the Victorians. I interviewed him (Holmes, not Tennyson) for the New Statesman. https://t.co/jTIP4X4E7A
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The great Richard Holmes has a new book out, about how Tennyson articulated the epistemic anguish that scientific knowledge inflicted on the Victorians. I interviewed him (Holmes, not Tennyson) for the New Statesman. https://t.co/jTIP4X4E7A
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I met Dickie Bird at Scarborough when I was a cricket-mad eleven year old with long ginger curtains. We talked for twenty minutes about the ongoing 05 ashes. Happiest moment of my life. Then he said to my dad, ‘This little girl knows a lot about cricket!’ Wrecked.
“It's been really hard. I'll tell you now mate, it's been really hard.” Yorkshire icon Dickie Bird has been shielding on his own for the last year.
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Today, in Rome, Carlo Acutis was made a saint. The story of his short life will be held up as a model for Catholics everywhere. The real story is stranger. It’s about a boy, his mother, and a church that’s terrified by both its past and future: https://t.co/VbzwrXqCux
economist.com
The Vatican wants him to be the next Mother Teresa. But what did Carlo Acutis really believe?
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remembered this now that Lord Bragg is stepping down. Lovely piece
I wrote about why I love In Our Time https://t.co/KWM3sTq525
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My favourite part of this was looking into the decrepitude, incompetence and dullness of post-war MI5, where squadrons of men sat at tables steaming open letters and White Russian emigrés who had lost their hearing worked “transcribing” bugged conversations
If you are as interested in the multiply sovereign dark zones of semi-suburban North London as i am then you should read my history of the Soviet Trade Delegation that sits right on the edge of Hampstead Heath https://t.co/YhHvJ4EgYT
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This is still in front of the paywall for a little while longer...
If you are as interested in the multiply sovereign dark zones of semi-suburban North London as i am then you should read my history of the Soviet Trade Delegation that sits right on the edge of Hampstead Heath https://t.co/YhHvJ4EgYT
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If you are as interested in the multiply sovereign dark zones of semi-suburban North London as i am then you should read my history of the Soviet Trade Delegation that sits right on the edge of Hampstead Heath https://t.co/YhHvJ4EgYT
the-fence.com
What goes on in that building just beyond the Men’s Ponds?
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If you are as interested in the multiply sovereign dark zones of semi-suburban North London as i am then you should read my history of the Soviet Trade Delegation that sits right on the edge of Hampstead Heath https://t.co/YhHvJ4EgYT
the-fence.com
What goes on in that building just beyond the Men’s Ponds?
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This piece by @John__Phipps on Wasfi Kani -- one of the most formidable and compelling people I have ever met -- is a triumph. It creeps past the journalistic into the literary.
ft.com
In the UK, summer productions in stately homes have helped keep the art form alive. For that you need donors and, for them, what you really need is Wasfi Kani
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Don’t come on here much because these days it’s like sitting in a bar where they play Fox News all day, but I just did a big FT feature about the United Kingdom’s greatest (and most idiosyncratic) arts impresario, Wasfi Kani https://t.co/n5fQhj6d2F
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This is brilliant
My profile of Wasfi Kani, the inimitable queen of country house opera, is the cover of this week’s FT Magazine. Run, don't walk!
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My profile of Wasfi Kani, the inimitable queen of country house opera, is the cover of this week’s FT Magazine. Run, don't walk!
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My profile of Wasfi Kani, the inimitable queen of country house opera, is the cover of this week’s FT Magazine. Run, don't walk!
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The mother of Carlo Acutis has responded to my article in the Economist this spring. "If you don't know God, you are in the darkness," she tells the Spectator. "We pray for these people." You can read the original article here: https://t.co/VbzwrXq4EZ
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In its most basic sense, a saint is someone who has gone to heaven because of their virtuous life. @John__Phipps digs into the story of Carlo Acutis to see how the Italian teenager earned his halo
economist.com
The Vatican wants him to be the next Mother Teresa. But what did Carlo Acutis really believe?
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You can read the whole story here: https://t.co/VbzwrXq4EZ
economist.com
The Vatican wants him to be the next Mother Teresa. But what did Carlo Acutis really believe?
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Carlo Acutis is a fifteen-year-old teenager who died in 2006 and is being made a saint next month. People call him 'god’s influencer’, or ‘the patron saint of the internet’. But not everyone remembers him that way:
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