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This season, you’ll hear about our new era of mass protest and whether nonviolent action can achieve real political change; the changing face of modern terrorism in the UK; the complex and delicate process of peace-making in an increasingly dystopian world; a fresh take on the iconic writer Virginia Woolf and her deeply problematic prank; lessons in guilt and gratitude to the British from Mihir Bose; and a culinary adventure like you’ve never seen…or heard…before.
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Eat More Herring at Easter
Waitrose has suspended sales of overfished mackerel, pointing its customers to other species, including (why should it earn an exclamation mark?) herring!
African Slavery: Current dangers and prevailing myths
The enslavement of Africans is one of the most disgraceful crimes that afflicted and is afflicting the continent. I say ‘afflicting’ since this is still happening today.
Meet Decca Mitford: investigative journalist, radical activist, renegade aristocrat
An introduction to Decca Mitford, subject of the award-winning author Carla Kaplan’s new biography .
Events
Elizabeth Finkel & Caitjan Gainty: Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Devi Sridhar chairs a robust discussion on doubt and certainty with medicine historian Caitjan Gainty, author of Healthy Scepticism, and journalist Elizabeth Finkel.
Victor Mallet, Nikesh Shukla & Daniel Trilling: The Far-Right Has Risen
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Chaired by Talat Yaqoob, Financial Times senior world desk editor Victor Mallet (author of Far-Right France), author Nikesh Shukla, and journalist Daniel Trilling discuss the rise of the far-right.
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