https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSkPj1eIykM
https://ausveg.com.au/biosecurity-agrichemical/crop-protection/overview-pests-diseases-disorders/weeds/
https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/letters/readers-letters-why-doesnt-scotland-ban-alcohol-altogether-3256654
https://studentnewspaper.org/article/the-controversies-of-the-scottish-parliament-10-years-on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRi6bQIstZQ
https://theconversation.com/au
https://theconversation.com/when-it-comes-to-media-reporting-on-israel-palestine-there-is-nowhere-to-hide-160992
https://www.afr.com/politics/what-the-hell-are-you-talking-about-the-business-of-mangling-language-20050212-j6zly
https://theconversation.com/organic-farming-gets-a-bad-rap-why-it-shouldnt-65736
https://theconversation.com/are-common-garden-chemicals-a-health-risk-65643
https://twitter.com/SheffYield?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Eprofile%3Agardenorganicuk%7Ctwgr%5EeyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3R3ZWV0X2VtYmVkX2NsaWNrYWJpbGl0eV8xMjEwMiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjb250cm9sIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gardenorganic.org.uk%2Ffaqs%2Fbindweed-vegetable-plot
sheff-yield Jana Kalalova Grantham Centre
Colin Osborne
http://grantham.sheffield.ac.uk/practical-organic-growing/
https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/news/organic-september-2020
https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/news/organic-september-2020
https://inroadsjournal.ca/british-labours-safe-pair-of-hands/
She is a longstanding advocate for Palestinian rights, and has condemned
arms sales to Israel, the Gaza blockade and the illegal occupation of the
Palestinian territories. However, she also firmly defends Israel’s right to
exist and was a tough critic of Corbyn’s failure to come to grips with
anti-Semitism.
https://theconversation.com/official-world-war-i-memorial-rituals-could-create-a-generation-uncritical-of-the-conflict-60384
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https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/life-cycle
'The series of changes that a living thing goes through from the beginning
of its life until death
'Many of these technological products have only a very short life cycle
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critical mass and decline. The most common steps in the life cycle of a
product include product development, market introduction, growth, maturity,
and decline/stability.
https://theconversation.com/when-it-comes-to-media-reporting-on-israel-palestine-there-is-nowhere-to-hide-160992
Jonathan Freedland
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/21/israel-opinion-western-attitudes-middle-east
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/22/anti-semitic-chants-nazi-symbols-overshadow-pro-palestine-marches/
Henry II echo down the centuries: "Who will rid me of this turbulent
priest?" Four of his knights took their king literally, and assassinated
Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.
https://theconversation.com/eurovision-uk-quitting-the-song-contest-would-only-be-bad-for-brand-britain-117758
https://theconversation.com/profiles/priyamvada-gopal-198822
https://theconversation.com/allo-allo-brits-left-tongue-tied-by-their-language-problems-17170
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/24/the-guardian-view-on-belarus-a-line-has-been-crossed
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/israel-buried-80-hamas-fighters-24176380
Stephen Toope
Dr Jill Edmondson
Institute for sustainable food
https://theconversation.com/bullfighting-what-i-found-during-a-year-on-breeding-estates-52589
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-57232375
https://m.facebook.com/rickygervais/posts/1199432276847790?comment_id=1199435313514153&reply_comment_id=136495164126356
https://uk.newschant.com/uk-news/binmen-union-submits-emergency-motion-in-support-of-suspended-batley-teacher/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8567281/Bloodied-bull-dies-agony-Spain-holds-bullfights-coronavirus-lockdown.html
Daniel Garcia Navarette
https://m.facebook.com/rickygervais/posts/575277472596610?comment_id=252561838539390&reply_comment_id=688966101228044
https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/letters-to-the-editor-baddiels-idea-of-humour-is-completely-baffling/
https://www.haaretz.com/1.5141787
https://www.soas.ac.uk/history/conferences/war-horses-conference-2014/file94551.pdf
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/462/05-beckles.pdf
Rachel Beckles Willson
https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/rachel-beckles-willson(f1f3873e-1e0a-4070-ae43-9c0f3d433d1d).html
https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff142756.php
https://west-eastern-divan.org/event/plaza-de-toros-de-la-maestranza/2006_08_08_1900
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzzHxuvaUNo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR2-PrVrDWw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFP0MXrw9o8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxL4bpMrBHo
https://www.barenboim-said.es/en/
https://west-eastern-divan.org/contact
The orchestra has performed around the world. It has an annual summer
school in
Seville. Since 2002, the
Junta de Andalucía (Regional Government of Andalusia) and a private
foundation have provided a base for the ensemble in Seville, Spain. Young
musicians from Spain now also take part in the orchestra.
The West–Eastern Divan Workshop takes place during several weeks each
summer in Andalucia. Once the working period is over, the concert tour of
the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra starts. The orchestra has been awarded
several prizes since its creation, among them the
Príncipe de Asturias concord award in 2002 for Said and Barenboim, and
the Premium Imperiale awarded by the Japan Arts Association.
In 2004, the Barenboim–Said Foundation, based in Seville and financed by
the Junta de Andalucía was established with the purpose of developing
several education through music projects based on the principles of
coexistence and dialogue promoted by Said and Barenboim. In addition to
managing the orchestra, the Barenboim–Said Foundation assists with other
projects such as the Academy of Orchestral Studies, the Musical Education in
Palestine project and the Early Childhood Musical Education Project in
Seville.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/19/hard-power-europes-military-drift-causes-alarm
Labour Friends of Palestine
10 / 5,210,000
Alejandro Vergara, the exhibition’s curator
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/whats-on/exhibition/velazquez-rembrandt-vermeer-parallel-visions/7ca4f41d-c9d1-2615-8a81-e2d017ab9757
Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer. Parallel visions
Museo Nacional del Prado.
Madrid
6/25/2019 -
9/29/2019
https://www.codart.nl/spotlights/alejandro-vergara/
Hispanic Studies Editor of Modern Language
Review
https://whiterose.ac.uk/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9602511/DOMINIC-SANDBROOK-Oxford-college-refused-woke-mob.html
June 2020
https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/june-2020/death-of-a-maestro/
When Joselito was nine, he leapt into the makeshift
plaza at a local festival to deliver a perfect pair of short banderillas
(the wooden sticks covered in coloured paper that are placed high in a
charging bull’s shoulders). Word of the Mozartian child prodigy spread. By
the time he was twelve, Joselito was performing professionally.
ould applaud any more: their hands were too sore. No one could cheer any
more, only croak like frogs. It would take a Cervantes to do justice to what
we witnessed.”
“I have no adjectives left to describe this young man’s
glory. I shall leave blank spaces for the rest of this
column: it’s up to the reader to fill them.”
“As Beethoven is to music, so is Joselito to toreo.
Such geniuses come along only every 300 years.”
Except that, by the oddest quirk of fate, a second such
genius appeared at precisely that moment. Juan Belmonte’s
was also from Seville, and had learned his bull craft by
sneaking into nearby pastures to cape the fighting stock by
moonlight.
ableau is constantly presented to the crowd.
The years that followed are known to a aficionados as the Golden Age.
While the rest of Europe slogged through the Great War, Spaniards divided
into two artistic camps. Everyone was either a joselista or a belmontista.
Aficionados put images of their preferred idol in their windows, or wore
them on their lapels. Tallies were kept of the ears each man cut.
Belmonte Joselito
BELMONTE Y JOSELITO Documental.
4:00 6:34 6:52 7:06 7:24 7:26 8:00
killing 12:30 - 12:38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk0y5xMlyKA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95saZfNXJrU
Daniel Luque
con el estoque puerta grande en las ventas Madrid 5 de junio 2014
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/stafflist?query=&new_categoryID=6
https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/april-2021/the-ring-master/
April 2021
In the pro-bullfighting
literature, appealing to the authority of cultured aficionados from past and
present (Federico García Lorca, Ernest Hemingway, Mario Vargas Llosa) is a
fast track to respectability. Francis Bacon is mentioned occasionally, but
his British passport and understated presence in bullrings go some way to
explaining why his name doesn’t come up more.
As his most quoted aphorism on the subject — “Bullfighting is like
boxing, a marvellous aperitif to sex” — intimates, neither his work nor his
life invites respectability by association. He gave short shrift to
anti-bullfighting sentiment:
“When you go into a
butcher’s shop and see how beautiful meat can be and then you think about
it, you can think of the whole horror of life — of one thing living off
another. It’s like all those stupid things that are said about bullfighting.
Because people will eat meat and then complain about bullfighting; they will
go in and complain about bullfighting covered with furs and with birds in
their hair.”
The Royal Academy’s postponed “Francis Bacon: Man and Beast” exhibition
will hopefully draw greater attention to the role of animals in his oeuvre.
With the publication of a fine new biography by Mark Stevens and Annalyn
Swan (reviewed by Christopher Bray in The Critic last month), and
Max Porter’s fictional diary of Bacon’s final days in Madrid, the time is
ripe to flesh out the importance of the corrida for the artist’s life and
work.
Bacon was exposed to the violence of animals and humans from a young
age
Born in rural Ireland in 1909 to a father who was a Boer War veteran
turned racehorse trainer, Bacon was exposed to the violence of animals and
humans from a young age. The hunt was as ubiquitous a part of his childhood
as bullfighting was for many of the masters of Hispanic art. Francisco de
Goya claimed to have fought bulls in his youth, and his Self Portrait in
the Studio (1790-1795) presents the artist working in what appears to
be a stylish matador’s garb. The Basque painter Ignacio Zuloaga (1870-1945)
created bullfighting scenes from observance and experience. He was making
good progress in the Carmona bullfighting school until a serious goring led
him to abandon the ring. Shortly after he attended his first corrida aged
eight, Picasso’s painting Le petit picador honed in on the
horse-riding members of the matador’s team. Apropos watching a badly-gored
horse being carried out of the ring, the adult Picasso commented to Sir John
Richardson: “These horses are the women in my life.” The Colombian
figurative artist Fernando Botero attended bullfighting school in his native
Medellín, where he learnt the basics of tauromachy and began to sketch for
the first time.
Bacon’s chronic asthma made such physical exertions off-limits but he
repurposed the theatricality of the corrida in his own inimitable fashion.
Stevens and Swan quote the director of the Tate John Rothenstein’s
impression of Bacon at the after-party for his first retrospective at the
gallery in the early 1960s: “Instead of wearing his black leather coat he
swung it about as a toreador his cloak.” Years later, a photograph of a
matador preening himself in the mirror before heading out to the ring
provided the point of departure for Bacon’s Study for Portrait of
Gilbert de Botton (1986).
As David Sylvester notes: “No serious painter has owed so much to the
photograph as Bacon.” He kept more than 56 taurine images and books in his
studio, including Robert Daley’s illustrated book about matadors, Swords
of Spain. Bacon possibly attended his first corrida in Madrid on route
to Tangiers in 1958 before developing a more serious interest through his
trips to the South of France and Spain during the 1960s. In a letter dated
25 January 1966, Bacon wrote to his friend the French surrealist painter and
ethnographer Michel Leiris to acknowledge receipt of a taurine tract Leiris
published in 1938: “For weeks I have been meaning to write to thank you for
sending me your superb Miroir de la Tauromachie. I am very happy to
have it.”
Writing in Paris in autumn 1937, when bullfighting in Spain had been
suspended because of the Civil War, Leiris contended that the ritual for
matador and audience alike constituted a quest for transcendence, an
eroticised release from “the feeling of a diminished, castrated life” so
typical, he thought, of the present day. Leiris provided a connection to
both Europe and the past during the 1960s, a period in which Bacon felt
increasingly out of sync with the artistic trends and social mores of
swinging London. The earliest extant painting by Bacon to feature a bull is
Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne in a Street in Soho (1967). The beast
is positioned in the background, looming behind the subject of the portrait
as a portent of danger. The corrida then comes into the foreground in Study
for Bullfight No. 1 and Study for Bullfight No. 2, both from 1969.
Two years later, Bacon followed in Picasso’s footsteps to become only the
second living artist to be honoured with a retrospective at Paris’s Grand
Palais. The Spanish art historian Manuela B. Mena Marqués wrote: “It is
difficult to understand why Bacon, or the organisers, chose for the poster
of this decisive exhibition a singularly Spanish painting: Study for
Bullfight No. 1. Perhaps to highlight the differences with Picasso?”
There may be a kernel of truth in this explanation for the prominence
afforded to what is not considered to be among Bacon’s finest works.
Nonetheless, the implicit suggestion that the subject matter might be
considered parochial underplays the extent to which Spain’s so-called
national fiesta was a source of fascination for Bacon and others.
Photographs from the Paris opening night show Bacon in conversation with
André Masson, the French surrealist painter whose Bull Fight (1936)
and Bullfighting (1937) predated Guernica and Picasso’s
use of taurine mythology and iconography to engage with the horrors of the
Spanish Civil War. Also present was Salvador Dalí, who had recently
completed work on The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1969-1970). The
Catalan-born surrealist delighted in the spectacle of the corrida.
Inhabitants of his hometown of Figueres were exasperated by his making the
opening of a museum in his honour conditional on theatrical homages such as
a proposal for a surrealist corrida in which the recently-slaughtered bull
would be airlifted out by helicopter.
Bacon took both painting and bullfighting more seriously. He identified
with the figure of the matador who, in a split-second, can switch from
commanding his opponent and the crowd to being gored or booed. He who
recoils from danger will not create art, talent and the possibility of the
sublime only occur when the stakes are high. To quote Lorca: “The bull has
his orbit, the bullfighter his and between these two orbits there is a
danger point, the vertex of the terrible game.”
At his peak, Bacon was
an extremely unusual case of willpower, instinct and risk providing an
adequate substitute for technical training. He thought nothing of throwing
paint at a canvas even if it risked all the work achieved thus far. Bacon’s
lack of formal training meant he had little to fall back on when calculated
recklessness failed to cast a spell. His failures were, however, carefully
kept private. In 1978, a workman stole a painting of a bullfighting scene
from Bacon’s London studio at 7 Reece Mews, Kensington. It was later
retrieved by the police. The artist paid a reward and then cut the painting
up and threw it into a dustbin.
No such luxury of self-curation is afforded to matadors, public
performers subject to the mercurial violence of bulls and the assembled
masses. Bullfighters are an embodiment of how readily the powerful can be
rendered powerless, the perfect embodiment of an abiding preoccupation in
Bacon’s artistic vision.
There are few indications about the number of corridas Bacon might have
witnessed. An undated postcard he sent to Leiris from the late 1980s makes
reference to staying on for a corrida as if this were an unsurprising but
not necessarily routine activity.
Bacon would surely have delighted in the taurine museum of Bilbao’s
bullring where woodworm is rife and the heads of champion bulls have
gone mouldy
Andrés Amorós, the taurine critic for the ABC newspaper, recalls that
Bacon was seen at Madrid’s Las Ventas bullring, but that the painter was not
integrated into taurine circles, an impression shared by matadors active in
the late 1980s to whom I have spoken. Stevens and Swan suggest the stairs
and uncomfortable seating discouraged him from attending more.
Bacon was much more comfortable in his Madrid drinking-hole of choice,
Bar Cock, modelled on a private English club, which prided itself on its
cultural clientele. For a time, it had “Susan Sontag was here” graffiti
outside. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Madrid replaced Paris and Berlin
as Bacon’s European city of choice. Good weather and the presence of José
Capelo, his last great love, contextualise the attraction to a culture that
had long inspired him.
The influence of Velázquez — theatrically rendered by Bacon as “Belathqueth”
as he became more acclimatised to speaking in Spanish — and Picasso
throughout his career cannot be understated. As can be seen in
Crucifixion, 1933 (1964), for example, Guernica was a
touchstone for Bacon’s seething empathy with the centurion’s horse at the
scene of Christ’s execution. The anguished horses of Guernica simultaneously
reflect the horrors of modern-day warfare and Picasso’s childhood
recollections of watching corridas at a time when the equine participants
had no protective coverings and were regularly disembowelled. At the
“Francis Bacon: From Picasso to Velázquez” exhibition held at Bilbao’s
Guggenheim museum, the curators hung his Chicken (1982) next to Goya’s
Still Life with Dead Chicken (1808-12) to highlight a shared
fascination with decomposing flesh. Had he been alive to see the 2016-2017
exhibition, Bacon would surely have delighted in the taurine museum of
Bilbao’s bullring where woodworm is rife and the heads of champion bulls
have gone mouldy.
As he approached his eighties, he may well have believed that
Triptych (1987) was going to be his last major work. The point of
departure for the centrepiece of the largest exhibition dedicated to Bacon
in Paris for many years was Lorca’s dramatic poetic lament for his friend
Ignacio Sánchez Mejías. The matador was gored in the backwater Manzanares
bullring in 1934 before being moved in a torturous and complicated journey
to Madrid where doctors were unable to save his life. The poem’s fixation
with blood, penetrated flesh and gangrene found its visual correlative in
the bruised perforated human legs of Bacon’s canvas.
The politically conservative Anglo-Irish Bacon shared with Lorca, a
socially progressive left-wing martyr shot by fascist thugs at the beginning
of the Civil War, a preoccupation from a young age with ageing and
mortality. They were both fascinated with ritual and ancient tragedy, the
discipline of Apollo and unpredictability of Dionysian forces inherent to
the drama played out in the bullring.
Bacon’s work refuses to sublimate the cruelty of the sublime, or to
redeem culture as a civilised or civilising force. In classical terms, his
depictions of the arcane taurine world provoke pity and fear, but not
indignation. Violent sensations stirred by his paintings and bullfights
alike are not edifying, but all too human. This analogy can, however, only
go so far: a painter’s work, however tortured, does not rely on the almost
inevitable sacrifice of an animal and occasional death of a man.
At the end of his life
Bacon turned his attention away from the matador and towards the animal. The
star exhibit in Bilbao was his recently discovered last painting, Study
of a Bull (1991), which had not been publicly discussed, reproduced or
seen until it was uncovered by Martin Harrison as he prepared a catalogue of
the artist’s complete works.
Bacon positioning his subject between darkness and light lends itself
to a symbolic interpretation as the bull finds itself in a liminal zone
between life and death
Study of a Bull reproduces the panoramic view from the
cheapest tickets in a bullring on the highest tiers of the sunny side that
loom above the gate through which the bull is released. Less iconic than the
so-called moment of truth — the point of maximum risk for the matador,
raising the sword for the final kill — there are only a handful of images of
the bull at this initial stage in the photographic books from Bacon’s
studio. Study of a Bull was seemingly inspired by Leiris’s death in 1990 as
well as Lorca’s elegiac poem.
Bacon positioning his subject between darkness and light lends itself to
a symbolic interpretation as the bull finds itself in a liminal zone between
life and death.
Bacon adorned the canvas of his final painting with dust from his own
studio to imitate the sandy arena floor, and he clearly identified at some
level with the bull as he faced mortality in solitude. Ignoring medical
advice, in April 1992 he travelled to Madrid. After suffering a cardiac
arrest, he was cared for by nuns. Sister Mercedes, who looked after Bacon,
has become a minor celebrity in Spain, recalling on television the dying
artist seeking solace by sketching pictures of bulls.
Study for Bullfight No. 1 was employed as a posthumous homage in
promotional materials for the 1992 Nîmes bullfighting season. The response
to his death was, however, largely muted. Bacon was quite specific that he
wanted no funeral service. His ashes were returned to the UK and there is no
gravestone to visit. The contrast with the death of an active matador could
not be greater. Among the numerous gravestones for bullfighters in the
Almudena cemetery, located within walking distance of Las Ventas, is one
dedicated to José Cubero Sánchez, Yiyo, who died aged 21 in 1985, the last
matador to be killed in a Madrid ring.
His corpse, dressed in his suit of lights, was laid in wake at his family
home. The coffin was then given a lap of honour in Las Ventas before he was
laid to rest. A young corpse can turn stars into myths. Like rock stars,
bullfighters rarely age well; they become parodies of their former selves or
struggle to adjust to everyday life. Bacon was not exempt from the ravages
of age, but he remained prodigious to the end. His latter-day vitality owed
much to Spain. Whether people like it or not, Las Ventas is as much part of
Madrid’s rich cultural patrimony as the Prado.
http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/102913/3/Popular%20Music%20and%20Society%20-%20Main%20Article.pdf
The dawning of Spanish democracy thereby coincided with a cultural and
musical
movement that took as axiomatic the frantic and heterodox recycling of the
past alongside the
philosophy of bricolage both in the popular
translation of the word as “do it yourself”
and in
relation to Roland
Barthes’ notion of creating
new discourse from the intelligent
appropriation of materials from different spheres (see Wheeler,
“Noche”).
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n14/duncan-wheeler/diary
You'll find below a copy of an email I recently sent to Professor
Wheeler. I've already sent a copy of the email to staff of the
Languages, Cultures and Societies school who have responsibilities of
one kind or another in Spanish and French, since the email concerns the
issue of bullfighting, practised, of course, in the South of France as
well as in Spain and in some of the countries of Latin America. I have a
strong interest in many of the subjects which are taught in the School
of Languages, Cultures and Societies, including translation studies.
For example, my Website has an extensive page
www.linkagenet.com/reviews/heaneytranslations.htm which
gives some translations of mine from German, Dutch, Italian, Latin,
Classical Greek and Modern Greek. I've also translated from French and
some of the page on bullfighting is written in French. Most, but not
all, of my work in translation can be found on the page where I comment
on translations published by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney. The page
contains detailed comment and translations of my own. The page also
contains discussion of translation from Polish but without giving my own
translation. In the copy of the email sent to Professor Wheeler and
others I give a list of some Google rankings for my site. For what it's
worth, this is a short list of some very recent Google rankings which
are relevant to these matters:
Heaney translations Latin Greek 3 / 808,000
Heaney translations German 2 / 785,000
Heaney translations Dutch 2 / 623,000
Heaney translations Italian 9 / 857,000
Heaney translations Polish 3 / 545,00
The copy of the email:
Dear Professor Wheeler,
Vol. 39 No. 16 · 17 August 2017
John Charlesworth has every right
to express his ‘distaste and even anger’, both at
bullfighting and at my diary of attending taurine events
(Letters,
27 July). He is on less sure footing, though, when
he notes that the
LRB would
not provide a forum for a comparable meditation on
foxhunting by a ‘hunt supporter’. Leaving aside
Ferdinand Mount’s description of bloodsport in the
English countryside (in a piece on Siegfried Sassoon in
the
LRB of 7
August 2003), there’s no reason to assume that
writing about bullfighting means advocating for it. For
the record, my position is that bulls and horses
undoubtedly suffer in the ring, but that their fate is
far from the worst thing to befall animals in Europe. If
banning bullfighting is to be more than tokenistic
scapegoating, it must be part of an overdue reappraisal
of our relationship with the animal kingdom.
At the risk of providing further evidence of the
‘affectless integrity’ of my ‘imaginative freedom’, I
should disclose that one of the reasons for my continued
attendance at corridas is
that the debates around its past, present and future
raise wider ethical and aesthetic questions. Protesters
frequently brandish banners saying, ‘It isn’t culture,
it’s torture,’ while parts of the bullfighting lobby
tragicomically underplay the suffering endured by humans
and animals alike. Some, though by no means all, of what
I have witnessed in Spanish plazas constitutes culture
by any definition, occasionally of a high order. and
Charlesworth’s implication that it does says more about
the reification of culture than about my ‘dissociative
intellect’. Still, I am grateful for his assumption that
I am of ‘fine mind and spotless character’, the phrase
in his letter that provoked most incredulity among my
friends and colleagues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqSbDcks_uA
I recently contacted Christopher North, whose articles on
bullfighting have been published regularly in 'The Critic,' as well
as the Co-Editors to explain that I would be adding material on
Christopher North to my page on bullfighting. I've already added
material on you, for the time being very concise. It can be found
near the top of the second main column of the page, underneath an
image of a picador's horse. See also the page where I discuss animal
welfare and activism,
www.linkagenet.com/themes/arrest.htm Amongst other
things, I discuss the sentimentality and unrealistic objectives of
many 'animal rights' activists - but I remain an activist myself. I
intend to bring the material on bullfighting to the attention of
various academic hispanists, including ones at Leeds University.
My Website does have very high Google rankings for a very wide range
of search terms.Some recent examples (in every case, the ranking has
been very high for a very long time):
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Best Wishes,
Paul Hurt
Sheffield
https://www.forces.net/heritage/history/what-were-actual-odds-dying-ww1
https://forums.horseandhound.co.uk/threads/very-graphic-please-be-careful-viewing-this.532608/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN2q5YiNfAE
0:50 1:04
Suzy Klein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Ey_9_PLDs
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/foie-gras-ban-new-york-animal-cruelty-uk-eu-food-rights-a8771086.html
Mali
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQoykjKyoAE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria_victim_theory
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/09/boris-johnson-brexit-belfast-violence-eu-good-friday-agreement
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/bookstores-pandemic-open-lockdown-b1794818.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/27/israel-committing-crime-apartheid-human-rights-watch
https://www.anxietycentre.com/anxiety-symptoms/back-pain.shtml
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-blasts-alex-salmond-23878863
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56796391
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_H41syRoSY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2nxShEV91M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJGSb-jQUL0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSrhQ48gWY8
https://www.newsweek.com/iran-deal-was-bad-deal-2015-its-even-worse-one-now-opinion-1582527
politicsjoe
https://www.newsweek.com/charging-kim-potter-manslaughter-not-justice-under-law-opinion-1584314
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56818953
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/apr/26/coronavirus-live-news-india-daily-cases-top-300000-for-fifth-straight-day-greece-adds-countries-to-no-quarantine-list
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/makhia-bryant-shooting-nicholas-reardon-b1835408.html
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/20/george-floyd-derek-chauvin-killer-mike-police
https://www.football365.com/news/mailbox-liverpool-fsg-john-w-henry-super-league
Joanna Walters
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/20/george-floyd-life-biography
http://operaobsession.blogspot.com/2012/03/va-la-che-sei-il-granduom-don-giovanni.html
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1424225/russia-news-vladimir-putin-ukraine-invasion-crimea-nuclear-weapons-world-war-3-boris
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/covid-india-cases-variant-vaccines-latest-b1832569.html
Ivanova Kristina
ID: 685136848
HMS Ambush
Templeton Religious Trust
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rafs-secret-blitz-isis-iraq-23872632
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1421789/George-Galloway-SNP-Nicola-Sturgeon-Labour-Prince-Philip-Royals-latest-news-vn
Henry Kamen
Early Modern European Society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_legend
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9439993/Labour-MP-Claudia-Webb-ridiculed-online-claim-map-showing-African-colonies-1884.html
https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/letters/louis-de-bernieres-vision-of-independence-is-a-work-of-fiction-readers-letters-3184867
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-56623901
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/04/countries-must-unite-halt-mozambique-insurgency-experts-say
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1419676/eu-news-latest-greece-germany-ww2-damage-war-crimes-payment
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1417877/brexit-news-caroline-flint-jeremy-corbyn-shambles-labour-party-spt
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/mar/28/secular-pilgrims-why-ancient-trails-still-pack-a-spiritual-punch
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/jun/30/britishidentity.socialexclusion
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/hops/hops-plant-support.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQbbCk9HQaU
https://growhops.wordpress.com/
https://www.craftbrewingbusiness.com/ingredients-supplies/world-beer-craft-breaking-british-hop-harvest/
https://www.ft.com/content/5fe5ec81-b25a-4fd3-993a-74ee66735bb7
https://unherd.com/2021/03/prince-harry-is-a-freudian-dream/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups[0]=18743&tl_period_type=3&mc_cid=592a50c61e&mc_eid=0f22e6d685
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSu6THgEGUA
https://themillions.com/about-the-millions
https://news.sky.com/story/pm-warned-not-to-drop-our-guard-on-military-power-as-he-boasts-of-boost-to-cyber-defence-12245382
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9382393/Heroes-recount-true-life-thriller-gloriously-British-vaccine-triumph.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9383719/Police-clash-demonstrators-huge-anti-lockdown-protests-break-Germany.html
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/20/pipe-down-harry-and-meghan-if-you-want-to-hang-with-a-listers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56476998
Rothenburg
Alex Belfield The voice of reason
Clyde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xM8sxoFcyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h99XA5vLkq0
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/24/failure-to-enact-public-duty-law-has-worsened-england-inequality-in-pandemic
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/03/02/quarter-of-london-nhs-staff-have-refused-to-take-coronavirus-vaccines/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvZWl-PVx4Q
The new culture forum
Naxos
Catalogue No: C10716
Männerchor des Leipziger Rundfunks
https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/letters/readers-letters-salmond-inquiry-now-a-pantomime-3145809
lettersts@scotsman.com
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9358765/DAN-HODGES-Keir-Starmer-showed-hes-floundering-polls.html
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/28/i-hate-to-say-it-but-britains-doing-ok-even-germany-envies-us
https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/handle/1893/16005#.YD9OX9ynyUk
Białowieża Forest
World Heritage site
Puszcza Białowieska Polish pronunciation: [ˈpuʂt͡ʂa
ˌbʲawɔˈvʲɛska] (listen)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa_Forest
Ozzie Zehner green illusions
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/covid-vaccine-johnson-johnson-catholics-b1811223.html
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/rishi-sunaks-budget-taxes-furlough-plans-keir-starmer-labour-less-trusted-888418
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9340353/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-doors-manual-welcome-aboard-Heir-Force-One.html
https://metro.co.uk/2021/03/12/walkers-warned-highly-toxic-parsnips-found-on-beach-can-kill-people-and-pets-14236224/
Simon Webb
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/26/shamima-begum-cannot-return-to-uk-to-fight-for-citizenship-court-rules
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/he-always-coming-bloodied-modern-19895418
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1391742/brexit-news-eu-vaccine-Ursula-von-der-leyen-astrazeneca-supply-Brexit-news
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-02-15/covid-what-can-the-uk-learn-from-israels-vaccination-success
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhw1ATYxWcQ
History Debunked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bop8x24G_o0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhw1ATYxWcQ
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1396186/eu-news-covid-vaccines-uk-doses-astrazeneca-pfizer-brexit-von-der-leyen-spt
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-results-ins/vaccine-vs-variant-promising-data-in-israels-race-to-defeat-pandemic-idUSKBN2AA0MS
James Partridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9KQYeQ3oO8
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/13/opinions/trump-impeachment-alternate-reality-big-lie-zelizer/index.html
https://news.sky.com/story/facebook-blocks-australians-from-viewing-and-sharing-news-12221342
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9282053/DAN-HODGES-Boris-Johnson-speaks-tomorrow-biggest-loser-Keir-Starmer.html
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/extinction-rebellion-campaignerjailed-for-filming-her-own-court-appearance-b920597.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55661782
Listening in Barnaby Martin
https://rec.music.classical.recordings.narkive.com/Al9nD3ZZ/which-marriage-of-figaro
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/29/we-had-to-go-it-alone-how-the-uk-got-ahead-in-the-covid-vaccine-race
https://www.rolf-musicblog.net/beethoven-string-quartet-op-95/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/31/the-observer-view-on-the-vaccine-dispute-with-brussels
last year the European Commission acquired the power to borrow hundreds of
billions of Euros from the money markets — for the purpose of protecting the
Eurozone from the impact of the Covid crisis.
If
the UK had voted to Remain, we’d have been on the hook for that colossal
debt — despite staying out of the single currency.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-mumbai-dharavi-covid-lockdown/?srnd=businessweek-v2&utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=tofu&utm_content=article&dicbo=v1-731a10b59bc329b528f9126431798e2d-00c0fb855138dff06052a6d0ad94265928-mnrwgzbzg4ydcljsgrrgmljug5qtgljymiyteljqmjsdcmtcgrsgkytbge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vUCb225t4s
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4weAUgSlC1U
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9153143/How-barbaric-photograph-Jewish-mother-two-children-executed-inspired-historian.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55802514
Spitfire Gun
camera actual combat footage - Battle of Britain - RAF
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55844268
https://news.sky.com/story/hong-kong-new-uk-visa-route-to-open-for-up-to-three-million-people-12201782
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9199483/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-Oh-no-Swampy-kicking-stink-again.html
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1390591/coronavirus-latest-vaccine-big-pharma-drugs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9155057/PETER-HITCHENS-liberal-elite-cheered-violent-mob.html
https://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2012/12/Recordings/MOZART__Don_Giovanni.html
Teodor Currentzis
Jakob Walter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH9Nz0OJkoc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BlbdNq1UCE
SOURCE: Our World in Data • Data updated: 26 Jan 2021 / 1045 UTC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55900680
Christopher Silvester
Elisabetta Zamparutti
'Migration Is Not a Fundamental Human Right' -- Breitbart Interviews
Hungarian FM Péter Szijjártó
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/the-harsh-reality-about-the-music-business-and-an-awkward-pantomime-led-by-clueless-self-regarders/
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I_Cannot_Be_Silent
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/19/scientists-criticise-uks-hands-face-space-campaign-to-control-covid-19-coronavirus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOyM97Y_RdM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9138737/Burnley-vs-Manchester-United-Premier-League-live-result.html
https://unherd.com/2021/01/the-day-qanon-captured-america/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups[0]=18743&tl_period_type=3
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9140929/Girls-young-12-56-000-mothers-sent-hellish-Church-homes.html
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127537603&t=1610058880775
https://slippedisc.com/2020/12/bayreuth-bans-wagner-expert-for-covid-tweet/
https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/don-giovanni-royal-opera-hou-18158
https://bachtrack.com/review-philippe-jordan-vienna-symphony-orchestra-new-years-day-beethoven-ninth-symphony
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/classical-music/vienna-philharmonics-new-year-concert-relic-nazi-era-time/
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/06/world/world-shock-us-capitol-mob-intl/index.html
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/01/06/trump-riot-mob-facebook-twitter-youtube-violence-condemned/6574841002/
Ivan Hewett
Vera Liber
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9089575/Britain-free-lockdowns-February-Oxfords-Covid-vaccine.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kXCz6W9050
https://twitter.com/AlexInAir
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letters/brexit-deal-eu-boris-johnson-trade-coronavirus-b1778893.html
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sas-goes-vegan-third-new-23223856
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55409693
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9081217/CHRISTOPHER-STEVENS-reviews-nights-TV.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9087983/Boriss-Brexit-deal-set-help-boost-economy-6-1-year.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/escape/article-9026565/No-wonder-call-Gods-Country-Stunning-pictures-Yorkshire-amateur-Alec-Scott.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGzpy7LcmNQ
critical past
Kasper Holten
https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/reviews/don-giovanni-royal-opera-house_46995.html
Mark Valencia
https://boulezian.blogspot.com/2014/02/don-giovanni-royal-opera-14-february.html
https://www.classicstoday.com/review/nezet-seguins-smart-sharp-witty-entfuhrung/
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Karl-Boehm-Mozart-Symphonies-Nos-35-41-/173607315914
Calixto Bieito
https://seenandheard-international.com/2020/02/good-singing-cannot-redeem-the-deutsche-opers-incoherent-production-of-die-entfuhrung-aus-dem-serail/
Francesca Zambello
Constantinos Carydis
B17 flying fortress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBNBdvYoptY
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/jan08/Mozart_Giovanni_hmc90196466.htm
https://www.classicstoday.com/review/mostly-great-new-don/
When is a rebellion not a rebellion? Last week there were
widespread reports that tax-hating Tories would unite with Labour to
vote down corporation tax rises in Wednesday’s budget. The chief whip
had pushed the nuclear button, threatening expulsion from the
parliamentary party. All seemed set for the latest instalment of
parliament’s stormiest saga: Boris Johnson v his backbenchers.
Except that the
more I looked for a rebellion, the harder it was to find. David Davis
was mentioned — but he rebels over everything. Other veterans of
parliamentary insurgency, who would normally be manning the barricades,
were sitting on their hands.
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/mozart-s-don-giovanni-a-guide-to-essential-recordings
http://www.paminasopera.com/dvd-review-don-giovanni-2001-zurich-2/
https://brightlightsfilm.com/don-goes-digital-don-giovanni-mozarts-dramma-giocosa-ages/#.X89HlbPgqUk
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1370162/armed-forces-news-military-cuts-navy-reservists-suspension-defence-ben-wallace-ont
Last week a study by defence website Declassified revealed that
Britain has the second largest military footprint in the world after the
United States.
The UK has 143 permanent military bases in 42 nations, from the
Falklands, central and North America to Africa, Europe and the Far East.
https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-13749/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41177315?seq=1
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2013/Jan13/Mozart_DonGiovanni_4779878.htm
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/leo-mckinstry/1369655/brexit-latest-european-union-weak-no-deal-brussels
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9028489/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-wont-renewing-Spurs-season-ticket.html
https://www.scribd.com/document/442204069/Recommended-Opera-recordings-by-Ralph-Moore-pdf
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1368922/deportation-flight-jamaica-labour-keir-startmer-priti-patel
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9024341/TOM-LEONARD-Israels-secret-service-perfected-art-assassination.html
Ronen Bergman, whose book Rise And Kill First is the definitive history of
Mossad,
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/07/stronger-together-taiwan-foreign-minister-urges-new-alliance-against-china
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXMZhJxceio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXMZhJxceio
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/uk-jamaica-deportation-cruel-exile-people-their-homes-and-families
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-eu-border-security-human-trafficking-b1766259.html
https://iranpress.com/content/26329
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8997575/Assassination-Irans-nuclear-scientist-involved-62-people-including-12-gunmen.html
https://www.gearpatrol.com/tech/audio/a731474/reasons-to-buy-cds/
https://www.whathifi.com/advice/10-affordable-ways-to-upgrade-your-hi-fi-system
https://www.hifinews.com/content/cambridge-audio-axc35-axa35-cd-playeramplifier-page-2
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/17/arts/recordings-view-harnoncourt-gives-beethoven-a-mild-jolt.html
http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/t/tld46452a.php
Steve Schwartz
Peter Gutmann
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2018/Jul/Mozart_Cosi_survey.pdf
http://www.audioreview.com/product/amplification/integrated-amplifiers/cambridge-soundworks/a1.html
http://www.classicalnotes.net/classics/mahler4.html
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/the-50-greatest-mahler-recordings
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/fred-fleitz-israel-may-have-killed-top-iranian-nuclear-weapons-scientist-to-avert-dangerous-threat
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/metaphor-and-thought/more-about-metaphor/19E2641E56401D300C95F3BE8B269842
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk0vhqSarYU
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=d6AdfeN8kDAC&pg=PA37&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.routledge.com/The-Rule-of-Metaphor-The-Creation-of-Meaning-in-Language/Ricoeur/p/book/9780415312806
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55502781
Mark Felton
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/41241865.pdf
Stephen James Mould
https://musictrust.com.au/loudmouth/inside-the-musician-stephen-mould-playing-in-time/
The quality
of Mozart’s music was not in question:
the dilemma was to explain
how he could
have created such sublime music from such a sordid plot. This dichotomy
was what
the public and many critics failed to understand – with hindsight
it can be seen that
da Ponte and Mozart had created
a complex, unsettling work that
was antagonistic
to the spirit of the early nineteenth century.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/17/we-will-still-teach-difficult-subjects-french-teachers-defiant-after-of-colleague
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8850231/Video-shows-Royal-Navy-using-flying-Iron-Man-style-jet-suits-practise-storming-enemy-ships.html
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-8848651/Wetherspoons-boss-blasts-PM-Boris-Johnson-lockdowns.html
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/24/landscape-of-fear-why-we-need-the-wolf-rewilding-scotland
https://calflyn.com/
https://www.varsity.co.uk/contact-us
https://www.biblicalcreationtrust.org/people.html
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/whatever-happened-to-je-suis-charlie-
None of this cant has been lost on Charlie Hebdo, which this week
published a special edition to mark the fifth anniversary of the attack.
In a stinging editorial headlined 'The New Face of Censorship', Riss, who
survived the shooting, excoriates the intolerance of our age, which has
included cancellations of a play about one of the dead cartoonists because
it was considered 'Islamophobic'.
'We thought only religions desired to impose on us their dogmas. We were
wrong,' he writes. 'Today, the politically correct impose on us their gender
spelling, discourage the use of words deemed to be upsetting, order us not
to eat this or not to smoke that. All in our interests, obviously.'
Emmanuel Macron recently announced that he wanted to end ‘Islamic
separatism’ in France. A minority of the country’s estimated six million
Muslims risk forming a ‘counter-society’, he said. It is tough talk from the
President, but Macron is keen to position himself as the defender of French
values, and he has form: when statues were being pulled down across the
western world, Macron proclaimed that ‘the Republic won’t erase any name
from its history. It will forget none of its artworks. It won’t take down
statues.’
That Macron even gave an anti-Islamismspeech was itself a sign of how fast
the debate is moving in France. Five years ago, when Fox News referred to
‘no-go zones’ in Paris, the city’s mayor threatened to sue. Now we have an
avowed centrist like Macron warning that the ‘final goal’ of the ‘ideology’
of Islamism is to ‘take complete control’ of society. Anyone making such
arguments just a few years ago would have been condemned by the left as an
extremist. Macron is promising a law on ‘Islamist separatism’, restricting
home-schooling of Muslims and demanding that Islamic groups in receipt of
French state funding will have to sign a ‘secular charter’.
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https://www.biblicalcreationtrust.org/
our belief that the Bible provides reliable historical information,
including that relevant to building scientific models of origins, is what we
call ‘Biblical Creation’.
The Bible is not a modern textbook of science providing detailed
technical or complete models, but its God-spoken testimony to events such as
Noah’s flood means that a worldwide global flood in human history (for
example) must be included in any scientific model that is true to the
earth’s past. Biblical Creation is also concerned with how teaching on
creation integrates with the rest of the Bible.
- Adam was a historical individual from whom the whole human race is
descended.
- Noah’s flood extended over the whole globe, bringing destruction to
all air-breathing land animals outside the ark.
Steve Lloyd MA, PhD works part-time as a Researcher and Lecturer for
BCT and is also pastor of Hope Church, Gravesend. He studied Materials
Science at the University of Cambridge and became a Royal Society University
Research Fellow. Steve also has a Diploma in Theology and Religious Studies
from the University of Cambridge. He contributed to the book
Debating
Darwin published by Paternoster in 2009.
https://www.biblicalcreationtrust.org/people.html
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https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/comment/article-9102723/ALEX-BRUMMER-Wheres-honour-dodging-taxes.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54478753
Robert Andrews Millikan, an experimental physicist, was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of a fundamental constant in
Physics, the electric charge, e, and his work on the photoelectric effect.
He relates,
'My Greek professor ... asked me to teach the course in elementary
physics in the preparatory department during the next year. To my reply that
I did not know any physics at all, his answer was, 'Anyone who can do well
in my Greek can teach physics.' 'All right," said I, 'you will have to take
the consequences, but I will try and see what I can do with it." I at once
purchased an Avery's
Elements of Physics, and spent the greater part
of my summer vacation ... trying to master the subject ... I doubt if I have
ever taught better in my life than in my first course in physics ... I was
so intensely interested in keeping my knowledge ahead of that of the class
that they may have caught some of my own interest and enthusiasm.'
Millikan's oil-drop experiment is a classic procedure for measuring e. A
small drop of oil in an electric field moves at a rate which involves the
forces due to gravity and viscosity, and, also, electric force. The
forces due to gravity and viscosity could be calculated based on the size
and velocity of the oil drop, so electric force could be deduced. Since
electric force, in turn, is the product of the electric charge and the known
electric field, the electric charge of the oil drop could be calculated. By
measuring the charges of many different oil drops, it can be seen that the
charges are all integer multiples of a single small charge, namely
e.
Now, e is exactl
y 1.602176634×10−19 C,
by definition of the coulomb.
His experimental 'verification' of the equation introduced by Albert
Einstein in 1905 to describe the photoelectric effect is better described as
an experimental non-falsification of the photoelectric effect (using the
insights of the philosopher of science Karl Popper, which I think are
compelling.) He used this same research to obtain an accurate value of
Planck's constant, which is defined to have the exact value
6.62607015×10−34 Js in
SI units.
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Professor Dan Stone
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2011/sep/15/educationdegreecourses-classics
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Professor Richard Alston
These themes have led me to engage in a constructive dialogue with much
modern political theory, in the areas of geography, sociology, politics, and
the individual. In this engagement with theory I have come to see how our
understanding of the Classical world depends on the ways in which we see our
contemporary world and the differences between antiquity and modernity are
often exaggerated. I argue that as a consequence of this, we can understand
our contemporary world far better through a deeper understanding of the
Classical past and its influences.
Actually, the RHUL principal has called the proposed move "a finely judged
reconfiguration of our academic portfolio"
Charlotte Higgins Guardian
Prof Edith Hall – one of the finest minds in the country
https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/classics/news/athens-conference-disrupting-polarization-publicity/
The panel, 'Disrupting Polarization: A Lesson from History — Ancient
Parallels to Modern Phenomena' was moderated by Stelios Vassilakis, Director
of Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation,
and it opened the first annual workshop of the SNF Agora Institute, an
ambitious joint venture between the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and Johns
Hopkins University, which has benefitted from a donation of $150 milllion
from the SNF. The panellists discussed the ways we may be able to learn from
the Greek past, with its violent conflicts and civil wars, and above all
from the Greeks' ability, observed on several occasions, to heal the wounds
and restore consensus within their communities.
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Find out more about our department
https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/classics/about-us/
We pride ourselves on our research-led teaching which combines a strong to
disciplinary research areas (archaeology, history, and literature) and
to an engaged Classics that tackles, from undergraduates to research,
current themes, such as
Contemporary Classics,
Spaces and Materials of Belonging, and
The Fantastic.
Because they find these civilizations so fascinating, our academic staff are
devoted to understanding and writing about them; they are also committed to
helping you to do the same, and so to develop skills of synthesis and
critical analysis which will be sought after by future employers and stand
you in good stead throughout your life.
Because they find these civilizations so fascinating, our academic staff are
devoted to understanding and writing about them; they are also committed to
helping you to do the same, and so to develop skills of synthesis and
critical analysis which will be sought after by future employers and stand
you in good stead throughout your life.
Dr Christos Kremmydas | Reader in Greek
History
"My Why is.... looking into the Classical past in order
to understand the present."
I have always found it exciting that we can look to the Classical past in
order to understand the present: theatre, politics, democracy, logic, the
art and practice of public speaking, all trace their origins to Classical
Greece and give us profound insights into the 21st century societies we live
in. For my current research project I have been examining strategies of
rhetorical deception in speeches from the law courts of Classical Athens.
Speakers often caution against the deception that their opponents are going
to engage in, but occasionally it becomes clear that it is the speakers
themselves who are trying to pull a fast one. So, what I am trying to
identify is how speakers manipulated stories, facts, and logical arguments
in order to win their cases.
As my research feeds into my teaching, I believe that it helps students
become more critical listeners, more aware of the art of rhetoric, more able
to formulate persuasive arguments. My hope is that they will also become
more critical, responsible, engaged democratic citizens. My why is to better
understand the classical past in order to inform the present and inspire the
future.
For my current research project I have been examining strategies of
rhetorical deception in speeches from the law courts of Classical Athens ...
what I am trying to identify is how speakers manipulated stories, facts, and
logical arguments in order to win their cases.
As my research feeds into my teaching, I believe that it helps students
become more critical listeners, more aware of the art of rhetoric, more able
to formulate persuasive arguments. My hope is that they will also become
more critical, responsible, engaged democratic citizens.
Probably like many others of my generation, I never really knew a lot about Philip. To me, he seemed out of touch and I found the off-hand/rude comments embarrassing. Now I’m older, the comments are still off-colour but rather the product of a good man who simply spoke his mind rather than one who did not have respect. I now think that the choice to be more open with our emotions and ditch the stiff upper lip that we made back in 1997 was a wrong turn. The values that Philip (and the Queen of course) represent (duty, discipline, loyalty, stoicism) now seem far more admirable and like something we should be striving towards – not emotional incontinence and faux victimhood. He might have had his moments, but Prince Philip really was the best of men.