Have been catching up on Nicholas Lezard’s regular column in the New Statesman about his life in London. It’s like talking to a clever friend on the phone, when you get into that free associating mix of incident, reflection, literary and musical and political references and each time, there’s a subtly different mood board. Highly… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: June 2009
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THE CRISIS OF THE MERITOCRACY
The crisis of the meritocracy: Britain’s transition to mass education since the Second World War PETER MANDLER, 2020 Oxford: Oxford University Press 361pp, hardback, £25, ISBN 9780198840145 Cambridge historian Peter Mandler has a fundamentally optimistic story to tell about the growth of universal education in Britain over the last seventy years and one can sense… Continue reading…
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A Cold War Tragedy
Melissa will be in conversation with Anne Sebba about her new book, ‘Ethel Rosenberg – A Cold War Tragedy.’ Weds 15th September 2021, 5-6pm, in the Robert Graves Tent at the Wimbledon Book Festival. More information here. Continue reading…
