If politicians were painters, with FDR as Titian and Churchill as Rubens, then Attlee would be the Vermeer of the profession: precise, restrained—and long undervalued. Bill Clinton might aspire to the heights of Salvador Dalí (and believe himself complimented by the comparison), Tony Blair to the standing - and cupidity - of Damien Hirst.
In the arts, moral seriousness speaks to an economy of form and aesthetic restraint ...
Tony Judt, 'Austerity', (NYRB)
Mass stranding of whales on Scottish beach caused by loyalty to their pod,
report finds
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The 55 pilot whales, which had to be euthanised, had been following a
female having a difficult birth, scientists believe
The mass stranding and death of...
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