2014 is the UK-Russia Year of Culture. We will be able to enjoy Malevich and the Russian avant-garde at the Tate Modern, Russian space mission exhibits at the … Read the rest
Tag: politics and books
Carl von Clausewitz’s On War requires a patient reader. It is disjoined, unfinished, conceptually outdated and even contradictory at times. But it remains the single most important book … Read the rest
‘Scarcely popular’ and ‘seldom acted’. So the famous Shakespearean scholar AC Bradley observed of Shakespeare’s tragedy Coriolanus. Nevertheless we have seen a series of new productions, notably in … Read the rest
‘It’s that moment in Macbeth when Duncan says… ‘There’s no art/To find the mind’s construction in the face”.’
So suggested Shadow Minister for Welfare Reform Chris Bryant … Read the rest