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Marina Gerner, freelance feature writer & critic

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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

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

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: 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

Money Observer: First money memories

Posted on February 21, 2018November 16, 2021 by marinagerner

What’s your first memory of money? Psychoanalysts could have a field day unravelling how people’s first memories shape their views… Read more Money Observer: First money memories

Money Observer: What Piketty has in common with reality TV

Posted on August 31, 2017February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

‘Who says a reality television show can’t convey an important message?’ asked my friend Elly Steinberg, who is a documentary… Read more Money Observer: What Piketty has in common with reality TV

Standpoint Magazine: Tunnel Vision

Posted on August 20, 2017November 16, 2020 by marinagerner

Winston Churchill’s half-smoked cigar sold for $12,000 at a US auction in October. A hand-written note by Albert Einstein on… Read more Standpoint Magazine: Tunnel Vision

Money Observer: How about making trainers more sustainable

Posted on April 20, 2017February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

I have never heard a laugh as loud as the one let out by my local cobbler when I brought… Read more Money Observer: How about making trainers more sustainable

Money Observer: Here’s what Brexit is doing to our diet

Posted on April 17, 2017February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

As we know, inflation is upon us, and it’s on an upward trend. Once a month, the Office for National… Read more Money Observer: Here’s what Brexit is doing to our diet

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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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