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)
Tasmanian tiger may have survived into the 00s, new analysis suggests
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Last known thylacine died in 1936 but new research suggesting the animals
may have survived longer in the wild ‘relies on a lot of maybes’, expert
says
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