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Posted on March 3, 2019March 3, 2019

#ToTheMoon #OnThisDay #FiftyYearsAgo #Apollo9 was launched #1969

No doubt this summer will see a tsunami of articles looking back fifty years to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s first walk on the moon (and Michael Collins’ pivotal role…

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Posted on January 14, 2017

Janan Ganesh on “history’s luckiest generation” and J G Ballard on the moon landings

In today’s FT weekend there is an interesting column by Janan Ganesh (who I previously featured on this blog) on how, given our times are in so many ways disconnected…

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Posted on September 2, 2015

Exhibition review: “A German Dream: Masterpieces of Romanticism from the Nationalgalerie Berlin ” – Spectator, December 2004

My one appearance in the Spectator, and my one published piece of visual art criticism. A lot of “slightly” here, and “rather.” I don’t read the Spectator much anymore; its prose style…

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