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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

First Things Magazine: Taking Art Off the Street – Museums are giving street art a home, but at what cost?

Posted on December 22, 2019February 17, 2020 by marinagerner

“Street art—you mean vandalism? No, thank you.” That was the response of a friend when I invited him to join… Read more First Things Magazine: Taking Art Off the Street – Museums are giving street art a home, but at what cost?

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?

Standpoint Magazine: Wholesome homes

Posted on October 24, 2019November 16, 2020 by marinagerner

One of the 20th century’s main advocates of high-rise tower blocks was the architect Ernő Goldfinger. To address the acute… Read more Standpoint Magazine: Wholesome homes

The Economist’s 1843: The malleability of our minds

Posted on January 2, 2019November 16, 2020 by marinagerner

A new show about consciousness takes a terrifying look at how scientists, philosophers and artists deal with “the hard problem”… Read more The Economist’s 1843: The malleability of our minds

The Sunday Times’ Raconteur: Rise of the robot mediator

Posted on November 1, 2018November 16, 2020 by marinagerner

Jonathan Verk, co-founder of coParenter, has first-hand experience of a bruising marriage break-up. “Six years ago, I started going through… Read more The Sunday Times’ Raconteur: Rise of the robot mediator

Money Observer: How to close the gender pay gap in finance

Posted on April 9, 2018December 2, 2021 by marinagerner

Last week saw the deadline for companies with over 250 employees in the UK to report their gender pay gap.… Read more Money Observer: How to close the gender pay gap in finance

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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