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Marina Gerner, freelance feature writer & critic

Read a selection of features, columns and reviews:

Financial Times: How to create a golden age

Posted on March 9, 2022 by marinagerner

What makes a genius? Since at least the 19th century, some have said it is down to genetics, while others… Read more Financial Times: How to create a golden age

Standpoint Magazine: Viennese rooms with a point of view

Posted on March 9, 2022 by marinagerner

“Austria comes alive on my divan,” said Berta Zuckerkandl, and this was an understatement. An influential journalist and art critic,… Read more Standpoint Magazine: Viennese rooms with a point of view

Sunday Times (Raconteur special report): Impact investing could change capitalism forever

Posted on February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 by marinagerner

Sir Ronald Cohen is known as the father of British venture capital and a pioneer of social impact investment across… Read more Sunday Times (Raconteur special report): Impact investing could change capitalism forever

Perspective Magazine: Brushes with the law

Posted on February 4, 2021February 4, 2021 by marinagerner

A few minutes before closing time on 22 December 2000, on a dark winter day in Stockholm, three men walked… Read more Perspective Magazine: Brushes with the law

The Times (Raconteur special report): Why it pays to really get to know your employees

Posted on February 4, 2021February 5, 2021 by marinagerner

With remote working now mandated for many of us, making it work for different groups of employees is the next… Read more The Times (Raconteur special report): Why it pays to really get to know your employees

WIRED: We need to talk about investors’ problem with vaginas

Posted on August 9, 2020August 9, 2020 by marinagerner

“I walked into this room, and there were probably about 30 men in their late 50s and 60s – all… Read more WIRED: We need to talk about investors’ problem with vaginas

The Guardian: Smart bras and a light tracker: the wearable tech helping plug the medical gender bias gap

Posted on June 7, 2020October 19, 2020 by marinagerner

If you’re asked to imagine a person who has a heart attack, who do you see? Most of us think… Read more The Guardian: Smart bras and a light tracker: the wearable tech helping plug the medical gender bias gap

The Times Raconteur: Is greenwashing always a bad thing?

Posted on March 9, 2020February 5, 2021 by marinagerner

We often see businesses accused of greenwashing in the media. McDonald’s was questioned about its decision to get rid of… Read more The Times Raconteur: Is greenwashing always a bad thing?

Wall Street Journal: In a Concentration Camp, Dreams of a Café

Posted on February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 by marinagerner

Jewish communities have suffered a spate of horrifying anti-Semitic attacks on both sides of the Atlantic. Yet survival has always… Read more Wall Street Journal: In a Concentration Camp, Dreams of a Café

The Sunday Times Raconteur: Can you change your unconscious biases?

Posted on February 8, 2020March 9, 2020 by marinagerner

Unconscious bias training has become the go-to diversity training for large companies. Almost 20 per cent of US companies offer… Read more The Sunday Times Raconteur: Can you change your unconscious biases?

Standpoint Magazine: Ironies of Ideology

Posted on January 25, 2020July 6, 2020 by marinagerner

On a recent visit to the Royal Academy, I noticed a tall, elegantly dressed man who spent quite some time… Read more Standpoint Magazine: Ironies of Ideology

Standpoint Magazine: City where history is still being made

Posted on January 2, 2020June 26, 2020 by marinagerner

Long before either Ukraine or Russia existed, there was Kiev. For centuries, the city’s residents have been sauntering along the… Read more Standpoint Magazine: City where history is still being made

Times Literary Supplement: Whose London is it anyway?

Posted on December 20, 2019January 31, 2020 by marinagerner

Tucked away between office buildings by Euston station is where I found the Camden People’s Theatre. It’s a little place… Read more Times Literary Supplement: Whose London is it anyway?

Times Literary Supplement: Does philosophy have to be obscure?

Posted on December 10, 2019February 12, 2021 by marinagerner

I recently went to a public lecture at LSE hosted by the Forum for European Philosophy. The discussion was entitled… Read more Times Literary Supplement: Does philosophy have to be obscure?

Money Observer: Fertility and other surprising ways to spot a recession

Posted on February 28, 2018December 2, 2021 by marinagerner

Economists look to house prices, GDP and retail sales to predict the next recession. But a new study says we… Read more Money Observer: Fertility and other surprising ways to spot a recession

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Some poetry while you’re here

In a crowded London shop
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.
While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.

– W.B. Yeats

How dreary – to be – Sombody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!

– Emily Dickinson

At lunchtime I bought a huge orange—
The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—
They got quarters and I had a half.

– Wendy Cope

Always to shine,
to shine everywhere,
to the very deeps of the last days,
to shine—
and to hell with everything else!
That is my motto—
and the sun’s!

– Vladimir Mayakovsky

Can it pull extraordinary faces?
Is it usually sick on a swing?
Does it spend all its time at the races,
or fiddling with pieces of string?
Has it views of its own about money?
Does it think patriotism enough?
Are its stories vulgar but funny?
O tell me the truth about love.

– WH Auden

I used to think all poets were Byronic-
Mad, bad and dangerous to know.
And then I met a few. Yes it’s ironic-
I used to think all poets were Byronic.
They’re mostly wicked as a ginless tonic
And wild as pension plans.

– Wendy Cope again

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