Alastair Benn
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The @NationalGallery's Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300 ‒1350 captures key developments, in elegantly curated snapshots, of the early textures of Western Europe’s artistic vitality. My latest for @EngelsbergIdeas:.
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The National Gallery's Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300 ‒1350 captures key developments, in elegantly curated snapshots, of the early textures of Western Europe’s artistic vitality.
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RT @wikeleyjb: Animal Farm - first published 80 years ago today - is Orwell's true masterpiece. I wrote about Orwell and the natural (and u….
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Animal Farm works at a deeper level than politics. It is an allegory about human nature, and George Orwell's greatest work.
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RT @robert_lyman: "Save your tears. Celebrate, instead, the victory.". The real meaning of VJ Day
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The lesson of the Allied victory over Japan in August 1945 is that war, though terrible, is sometimes the necessary instrument of justice.
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RT @wikeleyjb: "The book in which George Orwell is most himself.". I'm over at @EngelsbergIdeas today, making the case for a much-neglected….
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Animal Farm works at a deeper level than politics. It is an allegory about human nature, and George Orwell's greatest work.
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RT @si_rubinstein: You can now listen to my essay on the @EngelsbergIdeas podcast: .
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RT @DrRadchenko: Some more reflections from me on the forthcoming summit in Alaska. I draw on fun examples from the Cold War to show how su….
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RT @WarintheFuture: “The time has arrived for Australia to face up to its challenges as well as the full measure of its responsibilities as….
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Like America's allies in Europe, Australia cannot afford to be complacent about the demands of the Trump administration or the aggression of authoritarian powers.
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RT @MarkGaleotti: Sadly, this is quite right. We could have supported Ukraine AND still talked to (which does not mean agreeing with) Russi….
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RT @DrHelenFry: I wrote all about Dame Stella Rimington for @EngelsbergIdeas. Rest in peace - she was a trailblazer of her time. Read my….
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RT @Iain_MacGregor1: I dissect the USA military's air campaign against Japan and its post-war consequences. @EngelsbergIdeas Hiroshima, t….
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The United States' atomic attack on Hiroshima, carried out eighty years ago today, marked the culmination of a new and terrifying way of waging war. In a split second, it changed the postwar world...
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RT @EngelsbergIdeas: Welcome to The Nuclear World Transformed. Great power competition is reshaping the atomic landscape. Our writers make….
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Welcome to the nuclear world transformed. Great power competition is reshaping the atomic landscape. Our writers make sense of the new nuclear age.
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RT @amwilson_opera: Why are playwrights drawn so often to the lives of composers? Some thoughts. .
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RT @shashj: “while his motivation was principally to open the eyes of his fellow Russians to the way in which…state security had brutalised….
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The KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin's painstaking records of the Soviet Union's espionage activities offer insights that are just as relevant now as when they were first released 35 years ago.
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RT @EngelsbergIdeas: The Cold War origins of Trump’s rift with Europe | @jmichael424 .
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At the height of the Cold War, an ill-fated attempt to export Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist crusade to Europe opened up a transatlantic rift over freedom and censorship.
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RT @jmichael424: Delighted to share my latest piece for @EngelsbergIdeas on the infamous April 1953 Roy Cohn/G. David Schine European tour….
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At the height of the Cold War, an ill-fated attempt to export Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist crusade to Europe opened up a transatlantic rift over freedom and censorship.
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RT @Dr_E_Kendall: I spoke to @EngelsbergIdeas about what has & hasn't changed in the Middle East, why #Yemen's #Houthis remain such a persi….
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Elisabeth Kendall, acclaimed expert on jihadist movements and the Arab World, spoke to EI’s Jack Dickens about the current state of the Middle East, what drives the Houthis, and why a regional peace...
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RT @jackfdickens: I spoke to the brilliant Elisabeth Kendall about what makes the Houthis tick - and why they are far stronger than many in….
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