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)
‘Flamin’ cockatoos’ have lost much of their habitat to bushfires. Can the
species survive?
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Two fires in 12 years wiped out all but a handful of the mature native
pines in Victoria’s Wyperfeld national park, a key breeding ground for
endangered ...
8 hours ago
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