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The reluctant prime minister This analysis of Rishi Sunak is less a defence, more a study in poisoned inheritance and decline, writes David Gauke o we really need to study the time in office of the last but one prime minister? Sunak at 10 is the sixth ina series of prime ministerial profiles co-authored by Anthony Seldon (he presumably would not have expected to produce quite so many accounts when…
From left: Marc Rowan, Leon Black and Joshua Harris. Power, Betrayal and the hen Leon Black, the founder of the financial be- hemoth Apollo Global Manage- ment, announced his retirement as CEO in January 2021, he was hoping for a clean suc- cession. He said he would leave the position by his 70th birthday at the end of July and remain chairman of the board of directors and Apollo's largest share- …
Boy's own story A warm and teasing tale of growing up in 1970s Italy is full of both angst and joy. By John Self Ithough Sandro Veronesi has been a blockbuster novelist in1taly for decades — the second author to win the prestigious Strega Prize twice — it was only with his last novel The Hummingbird (2021) that he achieved breakthrough success in the anglophone world. As with that book, his newly …
سياسة تركيا أردوغان بين حضن الناتو و»نصرة « فلسطين؟ تكشف حرب غزة التناقضات التي تحكم السياسة التركية بين خطاب مؤيد لفلسطين وحسابات استراتيجية تربط أنقرة بالغرب و»الناتو« و»إسرائيل«. وفي ظل ضغط الشارع التركي المتعاطف مع الفلسطينيين، تبدو سياسة الصوازنة أكثر صعوبة، فيما يطرح استهرار الحرب سؤالاً حول قدرة تركيا على البقاء في المنطقة الرصادية علي سرور ليس غريباً أن يختار الباحث محمد نور الدين، الخبير …
Boy's own story A warm and teasing tale of growing up in 1970s Italy is full of both angst and joy. By John Self Ithough Sandro Veronesi has been a blockbuster novelist in Italy for decades — the second author to win the prestigious Strega Prize twice — it was only with his last novel The Hummingbird (2021) that he achieved breakthrough success in the anglophone world. As with that book, his newly…
BOOKS “To the natural philosopher there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. . . . He walks in the midst of wonders. —JOHN HERSCHEL Lab Girl By Hope Jahren (2016) ~g Hope Jahren, a geobiologist and plant researcher, describes her laboratory as a B_ refuge, a church and a self- contained world. “I chose science because science gave me what I needed,” she writes, “a home as defined in the m…
محمد تركي الربيعو « عندما تأسست الجمهورية التركية عام 1923، بدا أن مشروع كمال أتاتورك لن فحسب على تغيير نظام الحكم، وإنما على إعادة تعريف المجتمع، واللخة والملابس والعلاقة بالدين، ومعنى أن يكون المرء تركيا. وكان لا بد لإكمال لهذا المشروع وتحقيقه، من وجود شخصيات تمثل الصورة المضادة لصورة التركي الجديدة، وهنا برزت شخصية العربي في الذهنية التركية ليعاد رسمها لتكون بمثابة صورة مضادة للشخصية التركية. ك…
ADAM BRICE/SHUTTERSTOCK MORTAL coiL A death adder in the Pilbara region of Australia. Serpentine Scandals Snake Men By Zach St. George Norton, 272 pages, $29.99 By BRANDY SCHILLACE NAKE-OIL salesmen, reptile traffickers, unidentified flying objects and Robin Hood: These are all part of Zach St. George’s account of the eccentric Australian men who changed how we name earth’s creatures. When it come…
hen John Herbert wrote his incendiary queer play Fortune and Men's Eyes in 1967, homosex- ual acts were still illegal in his native Canada. When, at the beginning of Marlon James's Booker Prize-longlisted The Disappearers, eight gay men meet in 1988 to discuss staging a production of Herbert's play in King- ston, homosexual acts remain illegal in Jamaica. A conviction could be pun- ished with 10 y…
