Map-fuelled idiocy
Beware the map-mad-man. Grappling with the shifting boundaries and complexity of German, let alone European history, needs maps. I am...
Like sun on tin
Logue is recreating the Bronze Age and in his version of the Iliad, metal gleams.
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Freedom pressed
This morning, freedom, currently under assault, occurred to me as a suitable theme to highlight, and I have gladly looked...
Stunt-hoop tambourines
The timbre and beat of martial music as the Greek states gather behind Agamemnon for an almighty war.
‘Immediately
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A tongue twister triologism
I liked this punchy, tongue-twisting image of remote and mountainous Macedon.
‘He will get home. That is to say,...
Wood and war
I liked these two woody similes for war and death, the first to convey the din and crash of battle,...
An anatomy of anguish
This graphic and heart-rending typology of despair makes me conscious of having been mercifully spared much of anything that could...
What is peace?
Listening time: under 4 minutes. This is Saint-Exupéry's definition of peace, in which everything is in its place and friends...
Images of war
Again, reducing human carnage to an image of barbecue leftovers.
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Nestor berates the Greeks
Old Nestor has a few choice words to say to his fellow Greeks for their unwillingness to take on the...
Sing what you cannot say
In January 1942, a score of Verdi's Requiem was smuggled into Theresienstadt concentration camp and performed by prisoners, conducted by Rafael...
Free trade and British decency
Winder breezily lobs perspective into cosy schoolyard us-and-them memories.  Britain had a role in triggering the first world war (among...
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