Letterhole Diary – November 2018
Another month passes, and another Letterhole Diary follows. In November we look at the death of Bernardo Bertolucci, the centenary of armistice, and this month’s must-reads.
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Another month passes, and another Letterhole Diary follows. In November we look at the death of Bernardo Bertolucci, the centenary of armistice, and this month’s must-reads.
Will it be Argentina, France, Germany, or someone wholly unexpected? There are no favourites for this World Cup, but I wouldn’t bank on an upset.
Tomorrow, the UEFA Champions League begins in earnest. Europe’s biggest names will compete for the football’s most lucrative prize. This season’s champions might just be the upstarts from Paris.
With Macron beginning his tenure as president of France, talk has turned to whether Britain needs its own radical centrist movement to stop the Tories. One man has decided he is the one to lead it.
France is being swept by a new populist movement promising radical change and a solution to the country’s divisions and inequalities. No, not Marine Le Pen – Emmanuel Macron!
950 years ago, the Battle of Hastings changed England forever, ending a system of government, a language, and a literary canon. All this was based on the lies of the ambitious William the Conqueror.
Donald Trump has been using internet memes. It speaks to the increasingly infantile discourse he is promoting. Meanwhile, Europe’s own right-wing forces are growing, but there’s no room for memes.