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16/02/2020 | The Guardian | Patrick Wintour : @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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28/01/2020 | New Statesman Evening Call | Jonn Elledge : @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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10/01/2020 | Guardian/Observer Design | Steve Rose : @steverose7 | Read full quote at source‘The Michelangelo of kitsch’: the restoration of outsider architect Bruce Goff
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08/12/2019 | The Times | Neil Henderson : @hendopolis | Read full quote at sourceJohnson to blitz seats in Labour heartlands
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Comment: Authors of the actual Times article were Steven Swinford and Kate Devlin
06/12/2019 | The Guardian | Bibi van der Zee : @bibivanderzee | Read full quote at sourceFork out to pork out: Germany’s ‘schnitzel alert’ echoes around Europe
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09/12/2019 | Deutsche Welle | Hannah Fuchs : @ohwhatthefox__ | Read full quote at sourceOh-so-sweet schadenfreude
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08/12/2019 | The New European | Will Self : @@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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11/12/2019 | Wings over Scotland | Rev. Stuart Campbell : @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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11/12/2019 | New Statesman | Hettie O'Brien : @@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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15/12/2019 | Sunday Times | Jeremy Clarkson : @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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07/04/1994 | London Review of Books | Edward Luttwak : @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.
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20/12/2019 | The Guardian | Rebecca Smithers : @RebeccaSmithers | Read full quote at sourceFighting fatbergs: ‘This is now a huge environmental issue’
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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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26/12/2019 | Politico Brussels Playbook | Saim Saeed : @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.
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28/12/2019 | The Telegraph | Daniel Wighton : @DanielWighton | Read full quote at sourceGermany draws flak after record arms sales defy limit on exports
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Comment: Term used in printed headline but not online at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/27/german-arms-exports-hit-record-high-2019-despite-domestic-calls/
30/12/2019 | The Guardian | Clea Skopeliti : @cleaskopeliti | Read full quote at sourceForecasters have attributed the unseasonably warm weather to a meteorological pattern called the Foehn Effect
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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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08/01/2020 | New Statesman | Sarah Manavis : @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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01/01/2020 | Foreign Affairs magazine | Suzanne Maloney : @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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23/01/2020 | RSA events | RSA : @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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Comment: Web page saved as "A New Roadmap for Eco Politics - zeitgeist - RSA events.pdf"
23/03/2020 | The Guardian | John Crace : @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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26/03/2020 | The New European | Will Self : @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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12/03/2020 | The Atlantic | Helen Lewis : @helenlewis | Read full quote at sourceThe ‘Blitz Spirit’ won’t protect Britain from the Coronavirus
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09/03/2020 | The New European | Will Self : @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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12/09/2019 | London Review of Books | : @lrb | Read full quote at source10 references at London Review of Books
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08/03/2020 | The Guardian | Tanya Gold : @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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01/03/2020 | The Guardian | Veronica Horwell | 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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21/02/2020 | The Brexit Blog | Chris Grey : @chrisgreybrexit | Read full quote at sourceDuring the Cold War, the Stasi perfected techniques of psychological warfare known as Zersetzung, sometimes translated as ‘disintegration’.
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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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17/02/2020 | The Guardian | Lynne Murphy : @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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16/02/2020 | The Guardian | Patrick Wintour : @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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28/01/2020 | New Statesman | Jonn Elledge : @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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10/01/2020 | The Guardian | Steve Rose : @steverose7 | Read full quote at source‘The Michelangelo of kitsch’: the restoration of outsider architect Bruce Goff
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19/12/2019 | The New European | Will Self : @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.
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03/12/2019 | The Guardian member newsletter | Mark Rice-Oxley : @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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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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17/11/2029 | The New European | Charlie Connelly : @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 | The Guardian | Rana Foroohar : @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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24/10/2019 | The Guardian | James Ball | Read full quote at sourceDominic Cummings is using political blitzkrieg to tear down UK institutions.
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14/10/2019 | The Sunday Times | Will Dron : @wdron | Read full quote at sourceOMG, M8: check out BMW’s luxury ringmeister
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13/10/2019 | The Atlantic | Paul Bisceglio : @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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09/10/2019 | New Statesman | Stephen Bush : @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?
Comment: Decided to exclude names from list of German words used in English, but this one is too good to miss.
02/10/2019 | The Conversation | Ranald Boydell : @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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02/10/2019 | Deutsche Welle | : @dwnews | Read full quote at sourceZebra shot dead after jaunt on German autobahn
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17/12/2019 | George Monbiot blog | George Monbiot : @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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Comment: Two German words in the same sentence!
11/09/2019 | New Statesman | Stephen Bush : @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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