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15/02/2021 | New Statesman | : @NewStatesman | Read full quote at sourceThe totalitarian states are now very fond of the word autarkie, and the principle of self-sufficiency which it implies is carried into the intellectual no less than the economic life of these countries. Economically, for all I know, there may be something to be said for the idea; but intellectually it has the whole evidence of history against it. The intellectual poverty which descended on Spain after the expulsion of the Jews and the Moors is the best illustration on the negative side; but positively there is, in the whole history of culture, no significant renaissance or spontaneous outburst of art or learning which does not owe its origin to the reception if some forcibly removed race or class.
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18/02/2021 | The Guardian | : @emilybell | Read full quote at sourceAustralia is a test case for resisting the idea that the digital advertising duopoly of Google and Facebook should set their own rules and policies for shaping the media landscape they dominate. The code has been criticised as badly drawn legislation which undermines the workings of an open web, or a Faustian pact between Scott Morrison’s government and Rupert Murdoch, or both. Even those who want to see a transfer of wealth from big tech to underfunded journalism were unsure that this was the right way to do it.
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19/02/2021 | The New European | : @wself | Read full quote at sourceI see the presence necessary in order to ‘get’ a meme as a strange sort of summoning up of this auratic component. Not only does getting the meme entail having been there – it also entails being here, now; and just as images and caption combine to produce a particular meaning, so these two temporalities interact to produce a sort meta-now: a zeitgeist registered in the virtual realm now, rather than the actual one.
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05/03/2021 | New Statesman | : @NewStatesman | Read full quote at sourceHis (Churchill’s) postbag, of course, bulged with requests to give speeches all over the world. But most of them elicited a polite “no” from his secretaries. An invitation to deliver the annual John Findlay Green Foundation Lectures at an obscure college in America’s rural hinterland (worse still, a dry campus) would have received similar treatment, but for a PS scrawled at the bottom: “This is a wonderful school in my home state. Hope you can do it. I’ll introduce you. Best regards – Harry S Truman.” Churchill told the president that he was planning a winter of “rest and recuperation” in Florida and could not contemplate delivering four lectures. Nevertheless, responding to the postscript, he told Truman: “I should feel it my duty – and it would also be a great pleasure – to deliver an Address to the Westminster University [sic] on the world situation, under your aegis.”
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07/01/2021 | The New York Times | : @jennyschuessler | Read full quote at sourceAs a shocked nation reacted to the storming of the United States Capitol on Wednesday by a pro-Trump mob trying to disrupt the certification of the presidential election, one word describing the chaos quickly rose to the top. “It borders on sedition,” President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. said in his remarks to the nation. “This is sedition,” the National Association of Manufacturers said in a statement that accused President Trump of having “incited violence in an attempt to retain power.” And within the first hour of the attack, Merriam-Webster reported that “sedition” was at the top of its searches, ahead of “coup d’état,” “insurrection” and “putsch.”
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03/11/2020 | Inside FMCG | : @InsideFMCG | Read full quote at sourceDairy company Norco has rolled out a new premium ice-cream range, Hinterland, at supermarket group Woolworths. The company uses locally sourced milk and cream from Norco farmers to create six flavours which will be sold in more than 900 stores.
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17/09/2020 | The New European | : @jonoread | Read full quote at sourceBoris Johnson’s promotion to prime minister has left the country with many questions. But aside from those on Brexit and the future of the United Kingdom, one of the other topics on people’s lips this week surrounds the most unusual protest behind the television broadcasts. And it involves the use of the glockenspiel. Appearing as a soundtrack to live broadcasts from the BBC News to Channel 4 News to Sky News the musical instrument has been used to blast out performances of songs including the Imperial March, the Mr Benn theme tune, the soundtracks to The Wombles, Harry Potter and The Exorcist.
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25/12/2020 | The New European | : @charlieconnelly | Read full quote at sourceThe key source of the nutcracker tradition, from its place at the heart of a German Christmas to the glockenspiel ring of the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy on a ballet stage, is a short story, Nussknacker und Mausekönig (‘The Nutcracker and the Mouse King’) first published in 1816 by E.T.A. Hoffmann.
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04/02/2021 | The New York Times | : @MiraPtacin | Read full quote at sourceAs the car inched forward, Theo leaned out of the window. “Please come!” he whispered into the woods. And then, one did: A barred owl (we think) swooped down like a poltergeist and dove toward the mouse decoy. But the bird wasn’t fooled and flew back into the trees, talons empty, the moon aglow. No matter, because to describe the surprise and exaltation of that brief moment, in both Theo’s heart and mine, would be to dampen our shared feeling, which was nothing short of awe.
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03/02/2021 | GBH News | : @billmckibben | Read full quote at sourceGrowing public concern around global warming, paired with cheapening renewable energies and an “effective educational job” from Mother Nature have made it more feasible that the Biden administration’s efforts will last after his presidency. “The zeitgeist has begun to shift – our sense of what’s normal, and natural, and obvious,” he (Bill McKibben) said. “And that won’t, I think, shift back…any more than, say, when the zeitgeist shifted about gay marriage.”
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01/02/2021 | The Daily Mash | : @thedailymash | Read full quote at sourceIn World War Two, which I remember so vividly it’s like I was there despite my 1955 birthdate, we all made great sacrifices while doing whatever we wanted , all the time. My grandad ate calamari and garlic pizza bread at his local Spoons every day of the Blitz. That’s the British way.
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27/01/2021 | New Statesman | : @NewStatesman | Read full quote at sourceThat a narrow commercial realpolitik lies behind the CAI is reflected in reports in the German press of corporate side-deals, including the possibility that Deutsche Telekom – Europe’s largest telecommunications company, in which the German government still owns a stake – could become the first foreign firm licensed to operate in the Chinese mobile phone market.
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01/02/2021 | Tin House | : @tejucole | Read full quote at sourceToday’s guest is writer, photographer, critic, and curator Teju Cole. In this extended conversation, we use Cole’s latest photo book Fernweh as a lens through which to look at his entire career, from his novels to his essay collection, from his collaborative work of image-text to the curation of his Spotify playlists.
18/01/2021 | European Commission | : @EU_Commission | Read full quote at sourceToday, the Commission launched the design phase of the New European Bauhaus initiative, announced by President von der Leyen in her 2020 State of the Union address. The New European Bauhaus is an environmental, economic and cultural project, aiming to combine design, sustainability, accessibility, affordability and investment in order to help deliver the European Green Deal.
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01/08/2020 | The Guardian | : @laurasnapes | Read full quote at sourceThere is currently no shortage of post-punk acts with a line in confrontational Sprechgesang. Brighton band Squid’s is absurdist and yelping. Dublin’s Sinead O’Brien skews more poetic. Perhaps it’s the lack of clarity from our bumbling leaders that’s forced this stark rhetoric out.
14/01/2021 | The New European | : @noahvickers14 | Read full quote at sourceAgainst the backdrop of a vibrant, urban arts life he further developed a growing interest in natural forms. He had collected natural specimens and scientific encyclopedias while at the Bauhaus, and now works such as Dominant Curve (1936) began to suggest a living world of living world with fleshy organisms and simple, soft-edged moving cells.
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02/02/2021 | BBC News | : @ImSuzanneLeigh | Read full quote at sourceCompletely stopping the spread of the South African variant is probably not realistic. For one thing, these 11 cases have only been spotted by random checks on 5-10% of all positive cases. There are bound to be more. So why the testing blitz? It’s because of the delicate position we’re in.
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27/01/2021 | renews.biz | : @reNEWS_ | Read full quote at sourceSpecific pilot projects are being set up whereby we can make maximum use of the Flemish expertise and strength in the area of logistics, industry and technology for the development of a sustainable economy and the climate transition in our own region and a broader hinterland.
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10/02/2021 | The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg VA | | Read full quote at sourceAfter earning a bachelor’s degree in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Pei became well-known for his use of structural concrete and concomitant interpretation of the Gesamtkunstwerk – the German term for art understood generally as a synthesis of different forms that together create a vision of an ideal society.
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08/01/2021 | The Guardian | | Read full quote at sourceWhat was this desperado putsch supposed to achieve?
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15/01/2021 | Deutsche Welle | : @R_Ebbighausen | Read full quote at sourceThe schadenfreude in Beijing and among other authoritarian governments about Donald Trump’s Twitter ban misses the point, argues DW’s Rodion Ebbighausen.
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03/02/2017 | The New Yorker | : @dsipress | Read full quote at sourceIronically, it’s a “good” story that has caused me the most angst: “Dow reaches 20,000.”
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07/10/2020 | BBC | : @krystinarneson | Read full quote at sourceThis daily ride – what he calls his “fake commute” – mimics the trip he used to take returning from the office, before he transitioned to home working. It’s Backhaus’s way of recreating a more traditional start to ‘Feierabend’, a German word describing the time after work is done, and a period of leisure and rest begins.
27/12/2020 | The New European | : @TheNewEuropean | Read full quote at sourceThe third supreme performance is Albert Finney’s in the movie Murder on the Orient Express (1974), an object lesson in playing Poirot as an intense eccentric genius, slightly Kafkaesque, and with a dollop of Richard III.
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22/11/2020 | The Guardian | : @kenanmalik | Read full quote at sourceThe English ruling class, George Orwell wrote in 1941, during the Blitz, “will rob, mismanage, sabotage, lead us into the muck”, but in a crisis it is “morally fairly sound”. I doubt if it was true then. It is even less true now.
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21/11/2020 | Irish Examiner | : @McConnellDaniel | Read full quote at sourceAngst within the ministerial ranks after yet another farcical week
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21/11/2020 | Chicago Tribune | : @LizAldermanNYT | Read full quote at sourceAngst over Amazon provokes Black Friday backlash in France
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14/11/2020 | The Guardian | : @tobyhelm | Read full quote at sourceSince the summer, and as big announcements on Covid-19 were being made without No 10 choosing to consult MPs, senior Tories had asked Johnson to rein in Cummings and his allies and stop what they called “government by diktat”.
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12/11/2020 | Scottish Construction Now | : @ScoConstructNow | Read full quote at sourceThe winning proposal by John Kennedy set out a robust and adaptable masterplan for the wider site, breaking the hinterland up into defined zones, each taking advantage of an existing under-utilised attribute.
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09/11/2020 | Variety | : @Variety | Read full quote at sourceSocial dramas and political thrillers reflect both the current zeitgeist and historical parallels of similarly troubled times.
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08/11/2020 | The Scotsman | : @edentravels | Read full quote at sourceA lunch in the Kyzylkum Desert, which straddles Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, sparked the idea for Caroline Eden’s book, Red Sands – Reportage and Recipes Through Central Asia from Hinterland to Heartland.
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30/10/2020 | The New European | : @wself | Read full quote at sourceI was saved by horsehair and catgut: classical music offered me huge new soundscapes of great beauty, artistry and intense feeling – while concerts were exercises in compelling schadenfreude, since often I was the only person in the audience whose natural hair colour wasn’t grey, white or silver.
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30/10/2020 | Freiraum Festival | | Read full quote at sourceFreiraum is a space for Freedom; a space for one to feel safe, angry, critical, accepted, included, respected and empowered. A space where Freedom, Democracy, Community and other shared, collectively determined ideals become actionable verbs, through the practice of which citizenship and belonging happen. As a space of creative confrontation and political imagination, Freiraum wishes to be an agent for positive change, through inclusive collectivity, solidarity, exchange, and negotiation.
27/10/2020 | Euractiv | : @SamJamesMorgan | Read full quote at sourceAutobahn angst, Eurostar flop & Berlin’s airport saga
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31/10/2016 | The Guardian | : @maeveshearlaw | Read full quote at sourceOutdoor discos to kitsch schnitzel ads: Twitter account relives the Soviet era
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27/10/2020 | NewsThump | : @newsthump | Read full quote at sourceExorcists called in to investigate destructive poltergeist discover family just owns a cat
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26/10/2020 | Tipperary Live | : @TipperaryLive | Read full quote at source… from the Pinewood Residents’ Association echoes the feelings of residents in the locality which covers a wide hinterland of housing including Cannonwood and Ballygambon …
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29/09/2020 | Goa Chronicle | : @goachronicle | Read full quote at sourceReferring to the recently organised Bird Festival, the Chief Minister said hinterland tourism and bird tourism on the line of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) would be promoted in a big scale. ‘Goa has a good connectivity and more so, all the good birding sites are far from coastal areas. The Forest Department will provide a platform for naturalists, experts, bird photographers to meet and share their insights, which will open new Vista for ecotourism in hinterland,’ he said.
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24/10/2020 | East Lothian Courir | : @elcourier | Read full quote at sourceWith the Union, most of its hinterland stayed in Scotland. … The northward bulge of the border between the Cheviots and the sea remains a defensive throwback. This modern anomaly of Berwick and the disparity between its residents and those in its hinterland could be resolved by a plebiscite among the 26,000 residents …
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22/10/2020 | Inaugural edition of The Imperfectionist, Oliver Burkeman's new newsletter | : @oliverburkemanWhenever I manage to remember that this is just the way things are – that the cosmic debt I seem to imagine I must pay off is in fact inherently impossible to pay off – I find I’m far better able to relax in the midst of having too much to do, as opposed to making relaxation dependent on first getting on top of it all (which I never will). Crucially, I’m also far better placed to actually do things – the productive and good-citizen things that were the focus of all this angst in the first place. Look: there they are, on the done list! Not many of them, perhaps, at least by comparison to the immeasurable galaxy of “things that need doing.”
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20/10/2020 | The Guardian | : @cllrsfielding | Read full quote at sourceOldham’s problems dealing with Covid are being made harder by Whitehall diktat
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13/10/2020 | KFM Radio website | : @PlunkettCiara | Read full quote at sourceThousands of customers without power in Newbridge & hinterland.
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30/09/2020 | New Statesman | : @NewStatesman | Read full quote at sourceWagner is often called “the Sorcerer”, his sorcery residing in his gesamtkunstwerk, the melding of all the arts into a total work of art that overwhelms each of the senses simultaneously, overcoming rationality while tapping into myth, dream and the unconscious.
01/10/2020 | The Citizen (Tanzania) | : @makakalajr | Read full quote at sourceWhether it is Marx’s Capital, Acemoglu’s Institution, Hegel’s Zeitgeist, Diamond’s Gun, Germs and Steel, Ferguson’s Killer Apps, Onyeani’s Spider Web, Mills’ Leadership Choice or if you wish, the Makakalan Worldview theory, these have been staple food for historians and philosophers for centuries.
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18/09/2020 | The Atlantic | : @MeganGarber | Read full quote at sourceThe Ruth Bader Ginsburg Fandom Was Never Frivolous – The kitschy celebrations of the justice have always insisted, in their way, that the personal is judicial.
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18/09/2020 | The Washington Post | : @@AnnHornaday | Read full quote at sourceAt a perilous time, the Toronto International Film Festival captured the zeitgeist
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04/09/2020 | IMDb | : @mel_goodfellow | Read full quote at sourceFilm captures zeitgeist of Turkey as it undergoes social and political change.
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20/12/2019 | Big Issue | : @GraemeVirtue | Read full quote at sourceThe last schmalz (article title, unfortunately only in the print version, not the online version)
22/08/2020 | The Guardian | : @DEHEdgerton | Read full quote at sourceWhile Germany commemorated VE Day as a day of liberation, Brexiter Britain used the second world war, or rather an invented memory of it, to obscure the realities of a failing public health system, doubtless unaware that more have died from Covid-19 than in the blitz.
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24/08/2020 | Stabroek News | : @stabroeknews | Read full quote at sourceMuch needed repairs on generator sets that power towns in the hinterland are among the immediate public infrastructure priorities of the new People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) government.
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24/08/2020 | Politico London Playbook | : @Jack_Blanchard_ | Read full quote at sourceSchools Minister Nick Gibb is also out and about in broadcast studios as part of today’s media blitz.
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23/08/2020 | The Telegraph | : @BoozeAndFagz | Read full quote at sourceCoronavirus has confirmed teenage angst and abolished its joy
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17/08/2020 | BBC News | : @BBCNews | Read full quote at sourceTeam abseils Peterborough Cathedral to make ‘digital twin’
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17/08/2020 | The Hill | : @JonEasley | Read full quote at sourceBiden rides high, but faces angst-filled party
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15/08/2020 | Cornwall Live | : @LeeTrewhela | Read full quote at sourceWhen This Is Over certainly catches the zeitgeist with references to social distancing and finally getting a haircut, and its chorus of “Yeah we’re really going to the pub … to the pu-u-ub” will be ringing out from Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor to the Swordfish in Newlyn.
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14/08/2020 | The Herald | : @LadyCatHT | Read full quote at sourceBen and Jerry’s social media team taking on the home secretary over the issue of asylum seekers crossing the Channel is as zeitgeist as it comes – a multi-national corporation owned business still trying to cleave to its socially conscious roots earning praise for picking the humanitarian side in a seemingly thorny debate, using a Twitter thread to challenge the government.
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30/07/2020 | ICIJ website | : @carmenmolina_a | Read full quote at sourceChina launched a propaganda blitz after media reports exposed mass detention and repression of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, according to a new report.
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16/07/2020 | The New European | : @jamesrbuk | Read full quote at source… It is one that can be used as a fig leaf for writers actually trying to avoid flak for their own opinions, but self-service in the media is hardly an original sin.
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13/07/2020 | The Conversation | : @JesseGryn | Read full quote at sourceWhy Londoners in the blitz accepted face masks to prevent infection – unlike today’s objectors
10/07/2020 | The New European | : @WSelf | Read full quote at sourceThe first time I remember being conscious of frothy coffee as a ‘thing’ that was becoming entwined with notions of zeitgeisty British ‘productivity’ was towards the end of that matte black decade the 1980s.
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10/07/2020 | BreakingNews.ie | : @BreakingNewsie… Ted Sarandos, chief content officer at Netflix, praised the series, saying : “73 million households around the world have made The Crown part of the global cultural zeitgeist. …
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03/07/2020 | The New European | : @CathrinSchaer | Read full quote at sourceUnfortunately for those hoping for a bit of schadenfreude, the short answer is: No, not really.
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08/07/2020 | The Guardian | : @angelica_frey | Read full quote at sourceJa Ja Ding Dong is a quintessential example of schlager, one of the most maligned genres of European pop music.
02/07/2020 | The New York Times | : @KevinRoose | Read full quote at sourceTerms like “permissionless innovation” and “blitzscaling” entered the tech lexicon, and companies used lofty mission statements to paper over their more craven aspirations for dominance and profit.
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24/04/2020 | The Telegraph | : @kerushton | Read full quote at sourceA Government diktat that NHS hospitals should move hundreds of elderly patients to care homes has been branded “reckless” and blamed for the homes’ soaring coronavirus death rates.
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03/07/2020 | Gulf News | : @gulf_news | Read full quote at source… angst escalates online between Egyptians and Ethiopians
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07/07/2020 | The Guardian | : @gsoh31 | Read full quote at sourceBritain’s universities increasingly look like the late Soviet economy, running down their social capital behind a glitzy screen of Potemkin imagery and glasnost-era statistics. Bits of it are locking up, alternately insulted and goaded by the gap between central government diktat and the reality on the ground.
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06/07/2020 | The Atlantic | : @mimbsy | Read full quote at sourceWith confirmed cases again on the rise – this time like never before –Americans can feel justified in their coronavirus angst. But who should be the target of their ire?
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01/07/2020 | The Free Press Journal, India | : @DeepaGahlot | Read full quote at sourceJust another day in the hinterland: From mythology to classic literature, women who have expressed desire or broken patriarchal rules have been banished, killed, mutilated, burnt at the stake as witches, driven to suicide or punished in some other way.
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27/06/2020 | Hereford Times | : @HTnewsroom | Read full quote at source… this proposal is bad for residents in the Kington hinterland, bad for residents who will see increased traffic, bad for business and bad for the environment
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28/06/2020 | The Washington Times | : @WashTimes | Read full quote at sourceIf a classic American film is deemed to have fallen afoul of the current zeitgeist, then bye-bye. And since the zeitgeist is always in flux, sooner or later, your favorite films will be quietly cancelled.
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19/06/2020 | The New European | : @WSelf | Read full quote at sourceThroughout the meal [with Conrad Black] we argued about everything, such was the divergence in our opinions, our beliefs, and our very weltanschauung.
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24/06/2020 | Full Fact | : @fullfact | Read full quote at sourceAt the time this claim was made, the government’s “official” published count of Covid-19 deaths was slightly under the number of deaths during the Blitz, although the numbers are very similar. The true number of deaths related to Covid-19 is likely to be higher than the toll during the Blitz.
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23/06/2020 | The Guardian | : @guardian | Read full quote at sourceBefore the second world war, remembering history served only to glorify nations, to stir up revanchism or to sanctify heroes. Then Germany invented Vergangenheitsbewältigung …
… In Germany, those who follow the crowd are called Mitläufer…
10/06/2020 | World Economic Forum | : @wef | Read full quote at sourceGillian Tett, Editor-at-large and Chair of the Editorial Board at the Financial Times, also joined the meeting, remarking on the sea change underway in the business community. “Today we are seeing absolutely every single C-suite focused on stakeholders, in the sense they have to talk to not just their shareholders,” she said. “There is a zeitgeist shift going on.”
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12/06/2020 | SFGATE | : @bayareamoms | Read full quote at sourceSF’s Zeitgeist reopens Friday with ‘Zeit booths’
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10/06/2020 | The Sydney Morning Herald | : @SHutchinsonNews | Read full quote at sourceThe North Sydney pool saga continues … The subject of their angst … is the submission of a new plan for the proposed $60 million North Sydney Olympic Pool redevelopment.
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08/06/2020 | Bristol Post | : @JasperKing2 | Read full quote at sourceWe know that it has been an historical figure that has caused the black community quite a lot of angst over the last couple of years.
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07/05/2020 | London Review of Books | : @lrb | Read full quote at sourceHe seems unmoved by, though not ignorant of, the huge Historikerstreit bedevilling his subject, the longest running of any excepting that on the causes of the First World War.
30/05/2020 | The Observer | : @fernville | Read full quote at sourceAngered by Dominic Cummings, and exasperated by diktats on school openings, councils are asserting themselves after being bypassed and ignored.
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14/03/2020 | Far & Wide | : @lissapoirot | Read full quote at sourceWe know travel plans are impacted right now. But to fulfill your wanderlust, we’ll continue to share stories that can inspire your next adventure.
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28/03/2013 | BBC | | Read full quote at sourceThe concept, devised by the consultants Quickborner, was called Burolandschaft – office landscaping.
12/11/2018 | Medium.com | | Read full quote at sourceBürolandschaft: how the way we work has shaped the office
21/05/2020 | The New European | : @johnkampfner | Read full quote at sourceIf a Cummings doppelgänger ended up as being England’s most important export northwards, then a newly-independent Scotland wouldn’t end up looking very different after all.
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24/05/2020 | Sunderland Echo | : @SunderlandEcho | Read full quote at source“The EFL’s latest guidance comes as no surprise – but has rightfully caused angst among some clubs.
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22/05/2020 | The Guardian | : @ollywainwright | Read full quote at source‘A Kafkaesque nightmare’: the survival guide helping condemned estates beat the bulldozers
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23/05/2020 | Deutsche Welle | | Read full quote at sourceBundesliga: Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund impress ahead of Klassiker
15/05/2020 | The New European | : @campbellclaret | Read full quote at source… the über-message to the public to “stay home, protect the NHS, save lives”.
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21/05/2020 | Guardian | : @fromTGA | Read full quote at sourceSpitfires flew overhead to mark his 100th birthday. Mentions of Winston Churchill and the blitz are two a penny.
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18/05/2020 | Metro | : @aliciaadejobi | Read full quote at sourceAnthea Turner has been forced to postpone her wedding in Italy this autumn due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but surprisingly admits she’s ‘not in any angst’ about the change of plans.
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15/05/2020 | Adworld.ie | : @Stephen_Empathy | Read full quote at sourceThe latest results from Empathy’s Covid-19 Tracking Research highlights the angst shoppers are experiencing when grocery shopping during COVID-19
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15/05/2020 | eFinancialCareers | : @MadameButcher | Read full quote at source“My father confiscated my laptop:” junior bankers’ WFH angst
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11/05/2020 | Book Riot | : @BookRiot | Read full quote at sourceMore often than not, I search for romance books that are low on the angst. Angsty circumstances sometimes make me nervous.
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11/05/2020 | The New York Times | : @APNow, with virus deaths topping 5,000, state leaders and health experts are urging restraint amid growing angst among businesses owners and residents over when and how the economic restrictions will be lifted.
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07/05/2020 | The Brexit Blog | : @chrisgreybrexit | Read full quote at source… dubious comparisons with Spitfire production or the Blitz have undoubtedly adversely affected Britain’s response to the pandemic.
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01/05/2020 | The Brexit Blog | : @chrisgreybrexit | Read full quote at sourceThe outcome of the negotiations will therefore be a matter of realpolitik, not of a quasi-theological notion of ‘sovereign equals’ nor of a fantasy that some system of rules and rights governs what kinds of deals the EU does or does not do.
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15/04/2020 | New Statesman | : @MsRachelCooke | Read full quote at sourceHow does Sheen do that thing where he looks nothing whatsoever like the person he’s meant to be playing even as he becomes their doppelgänger?
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16/04/2020 | London Review of Books | : @adam_tooze | Read full quote at sourceEach of the three hubs has a hinterland extending into neighbouring regions in Latin America, East Central Europe, Africa and across Asia.
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20/04/2020 | The Times | : @CallumIJones | Read full quote at sourceThere is an old Westminster story about Ed Miliband that tells us a little of the second coming of Labour’s one-time wunderkind.
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06/04/2020 | The Guardian | : @HadleyFreeman | Read full quote at sourceQuarantine rivalries: forget blitz spirit, everyone has started petty lockdown feuds
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22/05/2015 | The Guardian | : @jonathancoe | Read full quote at sourceWhy did those books seem so urgent, so indispensable at the time? Was it because they coincided fleetingly with the zeitgeist, or do they embody something more robust and enduring? How will history judge them?
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02/04/2020 | NewsThump | : @newsthump | Read full quote at sourceWe should be more like Germany, say tabloids who were still making Achtung Panzer jokes three weeks ago …
… Simon Williams, a senior editor for the Daily Express who has never put Germany on a front-page without a shitty pun about the Blitz, was one of many to lambast Boris Johnson for not emulating those “sensible forward-planners across the Rhine”. He went on, “I drive an Audi, so I know all about Vorsprung durch Technik. …
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11/09/2019 | New Statesman | : @stephenkb | Read full quote at sourceThe arrival of Philip Lee, the former Conservative MP for Bracknell, however, was for some Lib Dem activists a bridge too far. Lee abstained on the 2013 equal marriage act and his voting record is a source of angst among Lib Dems, although Lee has convinced the leadership of his bona fides and settled nerves by agreeing to meet LGBT activists at the conference in Bournemouth.
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17/12/2019 | George Monbiot blog | : @georgemonbiot | Read full quote at sourceIt [neoliberalism] has failed on its own terms, and in many other ways. Far from creating general prosperity, as it promised, growth has been significantly slower in the neoliberal era than it was in preceding decades, and most of its fruits have been gathered by the rich. Far from stimulating an enterprise economy, it has created a gilded age for rent-seekers. Far from eliminating bureaucracy, it has created a Kafkaesque system of mad diktats and stifling control. It has fomented ecological, social, political, economic and financial crises, culminating in the 2008 crash. Yet, perhaps because its opponents have failed to produce a new, compelling story of their own, it still dominates our lives.
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02/10/2019 | Deutsche Welle | : @dwnews | Read full quote at sourceZebra shot dead after jaunt on German autobahn
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02/10/2019 | The Conversation | : @ranaldboydell | Read full quote at sourceIn his controversial article “What if we stopped pretending?” published by The New Yorker magazine recently, acclaimed novelist Jonathan Franzen referred to the looming climate “apocalypse”, asserting that, to prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it. Naturally, it caused quite a stir among the climate-change vanguard. Some accused Franzen of scaremongering, saying it would drive people to anxiety or paralysis, thereby hindering action. Others felt it essential to people understanding just how bad the crisis is – and that this justified the tone of the story. The irony is that disagreement about the merits of the article seemed to cause more angst than its subject matter. Actually, while it’s easy to pick fault with some of the facts and suggested actions (as many people have) the article is fairly balanced.
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09/10/2019 | New Statesman | : @stephenkb | Read full quote at sourceZoom out from both stories and ask yourself a question: would a government that had a serious plan to circumvent the Benn Act and avoid a Brexit extension be briefing that it is so hard that even the Queen will tremble before its knowledge of the British constitution, that Merkel has insisted that the UK will never leave the EU unless Northern Ireland says in a customs union, and that Boris Johnson admits in writing that Kraftwerk are better than the Beatles? Aren’t these the actions of an administration whose eyes have moved from the question of doing Brexit on 31 October to avoid blame for when it doesn’t happen?
13/10/2019 | The Atlantic | : @PaulBisceglio | Read full quote at sourceINEOS, which is owned by Jim Ratcliffe, Britain’s richest man, appeared to spare no expense when it came to either the groundbreaking science or the marketing blitz leading up to the event.
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14/10/2019 | The Sunday Times | : @wdron | Read full quote at sourceOMG, M8: check out BMW’s luxury ringmeister
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24/10/2019 | The Guardian | | Read full quote at sourceDominic Cummings is using political blitzkrieg to tear down UK institutions.
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15/11/2019 | The Guardian | : @RanaForoohar | Read full quote at sourceThis is part of a Kafkaesque financial shell game that has played out since the 2008 financial crisis.
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17/11/2019 | The New European | : @charlieconnelly | Read full quote at sourceThe original publication of The War of the Worlds was like a bombshell to an angst-ridden Britain suspicious of its neighbours. Now, why might the BBC consider a new adaptation so timely?
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15/11/2019 | Infinity Group | : @infinitygrouptw | Read full quote at sourceDoppelganger domains are clones of legitimate domains but with a very slight difference…
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03/12/2019 | The Guardian member newsletter | : @markriceoxley69… you can’t take a train all the way to the Amazon, but reporting on the front line of climate change is just as important as covering the institutional stuff. Jon Watts literally took days to get to “Forest COP” on the Iriri river deep in the Brazilian hinterland.
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19/12/2019 | The New European | : @wself | Read full quote at sourceCharles Dickens is credited with pretty much inventing Christmas as it’s celebrated in contemporary Britain. In the 1850s, using his journal of nascent gemütlichkeit, Household Words, Dickens pushed good cheer, holly and mistletoe, plum puddings with silver sixpences in them, jolly japes, wrap culture – and all the rest of this confected festival of the familial.
10/01/2020 | The Guardian | : @steverose7 | Read full quote at source‘The Michelangelo of kitsch’: the restoration of outsider architect Bruce Goff
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28/01/2020 | New Statesman | : @JonnElledge | Read full quote at source“It is still unclear,” the New Statesman politics team’s very own cherubic wunderkind writes, “just what the Prime Minister is willing to compromise on in order to fulfil his pledge to have a trade deal signed, sealed and delivered by December.”
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16/02/2020 | The Guardian | : @patrickwintour | Read full quote at sourceBut there was no denying the mood of angst that prevailed in the conference hall, and the sense that new centres of disruptive decision making were emerging to which the west, and especially Europe, were too slow to adapt.
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17/02/2020 | The Guardian | : @lynneguist | Read full quote at sourceThe most innovative and zeitgeisty dictionary additions are highlighted in quarterly press releases about dictionary revisions, perhaps in hope of viral attention.
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06/03/2020 | NewsThump | : @newsthump | Read full quote at sourceMan who spent years telling ‘Remoaners’ that Britain survived the Blitz just panic-bought 400 toilet rolls
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21/02/2020 | The Brexit Blog | : @chrisgreybrexit | Read full quote at sourceDuring the Cold War, the Stasi perfected techniques of psychological warfare known as Zersetzung, sometimes translated as ‘disintegration’.
01/03/2020 | The Guardian | | Read full quote at sourceHer final biography, published last year, was of Walter Gropius, Bauhaus founder, which returned MacCarthy to her original metier.
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08/03/2020 | The Guardian | : @TanyaGold1 | Read full quote at sourceDid Meghan know that who she is did not ever matter? That she would never be allowed to impose her own “style” – that is, herself – on the monarchy, with its spin of fake humility and an eternal Blitz spirit? Today’s manifestation was the Mail on Sunday headline: “Queen: I Won’t Let Virus Stop Me Doing My Duty”.
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12/09/2019 | London Review of Books | : @lrb | Read full quote at source10 references at London Review of Books
09/03/2020 | The New European | : @wself | Read full quote at sourceWhen ‘Britain’ existed as a part of a larger whole, these confected everyday dramas of country folk had a pleasing unreality – but now it stands alone, the sunny uplands of Borsetshire have become everyone’s hinterland, while you no longer need a radio of any sort to hear the cheesy ‘Doo-d’dooo-d’doo-d’doo, doo-d’dooo-d’doo-d’dooooo!’ of British nationalism.
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12/03/2020 | The Atlantic | : @helenlewis | Read full quote at sourceThe ‘Blitz Spirit’ won’t protect Britain from the Coronavirus
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26/03/2020 | The New European | : @wselfThe cultural producer’s dilemma – even with the West End theatres’ lights dimmed, and Amazon and Netflix’s streaming reduced to a mere piddle – is whether to retool for the zeitgeist, or double-down on the idea that art is timeless and universal.
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23/03/2020 | The Guardian | : @JohnJCrace | Read full quote at sourceThis time there was no daily Downing Street press conference. Not even an ersatz People’s PMQs with spoon fed set ups from Classic “Let the old and the vulnerable die” Dom.
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23/01/2020 | RSA events | : @thersaorg | Read full quote at sourceThe European elections of 2019 produced a surge of support for Green politics across the Union, with Germany’s The Greens capturing the zeitgeist with a doubling of their vote share.
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01/01/2020 | Foreign Affairs magazine | : @MaloneySuzanne | Read full quote at sourceThat Zeitgeist of gloomy resignation is precisely why a new volume by Patrick Milton, Michael Axworthy, and Brendan Simms [Towards a Westphalia for the Middle East] is such a refreshing contribution to the literature on conflict resolution in the Middle East.
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08/01/2020 | New Statesman | : @sarahmanavis | Read full quote at sourceThe page was cached a week before Zimmer did his original side-by-side post having apparently discovered his doppelgänger.
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30/12/2019 | Deutsche Welle | : @dwnews | Read full quote at sourceAutobahn speed limit requires further review, insurers say
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30/12/2019 | The Guardian | : @cleaskopeliti | Read full quote at sourceForecasters have attributed the unseasonably warm weather to a meteorological pattern called the Foehn Effect
28/12/2019 | The Telegraph | : @DanielWighton | Read full quote at sourceGermany draws flak after record arms sales defy limit on exports
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26/12/2019 | Politico Brussels Playbook | : @saimsaeed847 | Read full quote at sourceWith much of Europe still stuffed full of turkey, stollen and panettone, here’s a taste of the tense political climate in another part of the world.
27/02/2020 | V Fest website | | Read full quote at sourceV Fest mission statement: To encourage and motivate people to love and respect our planet; to take better care of both our planet and ourselves; and to adhere to a vegan and eco-friendly lifestyle as much as possible.
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20/12/2019 | The Guardian | : @RebeccaSmithers | Read full quote at sourceFighting fatbergs: ‘This is now a huge environmental issue’
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07/04/1994 | London Review of Books | : @Edward_Luttwak | Read full quote at sourceIt is not necessary to know how to spell Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft to recognise the Fascist predisposition engendered by today’s turbocharged capitalism.
15/12/2019 | Sunday Times | : @JeremyClarkson | Read full quote at sourceI began to realise that a V10 is better than a bicycle and that having fun at 180 mph is more important than having angst about plankton.
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11/12/2019 | New Statesman | : @@hettieveronica | Read full quote at sourceAl-Fayed installed a kitsch golden memorial to his son, Dodi Fayed, who died in a car crash with Princess Diana at the close of the last century, at the base of the shop’s Egyptian Escalators.
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11/12/2019 | Wings over Scotland | : @RevStu | Read full quote at sourceToday is – thanks be to God and all that is holy – the last day of the worst general election in recorded human history, and indeed perhaps the worst thing of any kind to have happened in the UK since the Blitz.
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08/12/2019 | The New European | : @wself | Read full quote at sourceIt could be that Corbyn-the-leveller sees his monotone as a sort of tonal equivalent to the society he seeks to create – but really, if he wants to out-bloke Johnson (and behind him, the blokemeister general, Nigel ‘two pints of bitter and a packet of fags’ Farage), he needs to pay close attention to the way people really speak.
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09/12/2019 | Deutsche Welle | : @ohwhatthefox__ | Read full quote at sourceOh-so-sweet schadenfreude
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06/12/2019 | The Guardian | : @bibivanderzee | Read full quote at sourceFork out to pork out: Germany’s ‘schnitzel alert’ echoes around Europe
08/12/2019 | The Times | : @hendopolis | Read full quote at sourceJohnson to blitz seats in Labour heartlands
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10/01/2020 | Guardian/Observer Design | : @steverose7 | Read full quote at source‘The Michelangelo of kitsch’: the restoration of outsider architect Bruce Goff
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28/01/2020 | New Statesman Evening Call | : @JonnElledge | Read full quote at source“It is still unclear,” the New Statesman politics team’s very own cherubic wunderkind writes, “just what the Prime Minister is willing to compromise on in order to fulfil his pledge to have a trade deal signed, sealed and delivered by December.”
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16/02/2020 | The Guardian | : @patrickwintour | Read full quote at source… there was no denying the mood of angst that prevailed in the conference hall, and the sense that new centres of disruptive decision making were emerging to which the west, and especially Europe, were too slow to adapt.
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