A pretty reliable guide to how much a non-fiction book impresses me is how long it takes me to read it. With Michelle Obama’s Becoming, for example, I read it in about three days. It’s taken me as many weeks to finish reading Unspeakable …
Monthly Archives: February 2020
Meet Vincent Van Gogh exhibition
Art critics turn up their noses at this travelling immersive experience, but as someone who knew little more about Van Gogh than the bits we learned in school, I found it compelling …
It’s not yet day one of the campaign to rejoin the EU; not for me
We did it. Somehow, an entire nation lost its mind. Or 52% of it. Or 26% of it. But however we do the maths, 100% of the UK left the EU.
I wanted to write an upbeat post, about how this was day one of the campaign to rejoin the EU. That’s who I am. I’ve always been an optimist, and at those times I could view the world in one of two ways, I’ve always aimed to choose the more empowering one.
But I’m not there yet with Brexit …
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Ben Lovejoy 