Download the full PDF Guide (170 pages, 950kb) The terror attack on the Manchester Arena came at a critical time in relations between Libya and Britain. Although the UN and Theresa May government were still backing the provisional government that the bomber’s Tripoli-based militia had been protecting , an increasingly influential advocacy group that included…
Month: June 2025
Death of Umberto Eco: Never Leaving, Always Arriving
He provided signposts in a world of infinite junctions, a road map in a world of infinite signs. Discovering Umberto Eco at University was a bit like discovering sex. During the long bleak months of winter 1990 I’d read his novel, The Name of The Rose back to back with Travels in Hyperreality — a…
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. … And one fine morning—— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” — The Great…