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    Thumbs up for the real digital revolution

    Saint Denis was beheaded on the hill looming over northern Paris now known as Montmartre. The legend is that he picked up his own head and carried… Read more “Thumbs up for the real digital revolution”

    14 February 2014 by Craig Ryan

    Forgive, but don’t forget

    This is an excerpt.

    30 January 201429 December 2018 by Craig Ryan

    Little bangs and big bucks

    You know you’ve hit your mid-40s when histories of ‘your’ decade start to fill the bookshelves. Writers are always nostalgic for their youth and thirty years seems… Read more “Little bangs and big bucks”

    30 May 2013 by Craig Ryan

    What nature of beast?

    It was, I think, Martin Rowson, perhaps our most ghoulish cartoonist, who first asked whether the coalition was evil, useless or both. Faced with David Cameron’s eccentric… Read more “What nature of beast?”

    15 February 2013 by Craig Ryan

    Can’t get no satisfaction?

    ‘You can’t always get what you want,’ sang Mick Jagger in 1969. ‘But if you try sometimes, well you might just find, you get what you need.’… Read more “Can’t get no satisfaction?”

    18 January 2013 by Craig Ryan

    Baudelaire and our destructive obsession with change

    ‘The shape of a city changes too fast, alas!, for the heart of mortal man,’ wrote Charles Baudelaire in one of his most famous poems, The Swan.… Read more “Baudelaire and our destructive obsession with change”

    29 November 2012 by Craig Ryan

    The strange afterlife of François Mitterrand

    François Mitterrand, French president between 1981 and 1995, died 16 years ago. Well, so they said. But turn on French radio or TV, look around a bookshop,… Read more “The strange afterlife of François Mitterrand”

    19 October 2012 by Craig Ryan

    Who is François Hollande?

    This is a stand first.

    9 October 2012 by Craig Ryan

    Creative catastrophizing

    The last year has seen a glut of books on economics for general readers, feeding off the fears most people have about their future in the global… Read more “Creative catastrophizing”

    25 March 2012 by Craig Ryan

    The wisdom of Michel Serres

    I have to admit that I’d never heard of Michel Serres until a couple of weeks ago, when I read this interview in Le Monde Magazine (6 November). Serres is a… Read more “The wisdom of Michel Serres”

    18 November 2010 by Craig Ryan

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