15th February 2026
John Wyver writes: The usual weekending miscellany of articles and videos that have engaged and interested me over the past week. The header image is Robert MacBryde's Still Life with Fish Head, 1947, usually with Manchester City Galleries but currently
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8th February 2026
John Wyver writes: In this week's choice of links that have interested and engaged me across the past week I have resolutely set my face against explicit engagements with the hideous politics of the world, although of course they have
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1st February 2026
John Wyver writes: Slightly late posting this today, but offered now in the hope you'll find it interesting and useful. Asd ever, it's a miscellany of stuff that I found valuable and engaging over the past seven days. The appropriately
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25th January 2026
John Wyver writes: As the world turns, every week can seem more extraordinary, and more distressing, than the last. As a tiny antidote to the hideousnesses elsewhere, here's a selection of stuff that has engaged and enriched my life over
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18th January 2026
John Wyver writes: The usual weekly round-up of some of the stuff that has engaged and interested me over the past week; more literary than some weeks, and with much, mostly cultural, from across the Atlantic, but with some strong
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11th January 2026
John Wyver writes: too much politics today perhaps, but it's been that kind of a week; otherwise there are a couple of great film links and a terrific AI essay, along with other articles well worth your time. This week's
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4th January 2026
John Wyver writes: My weekly round-up of stuff that has engaged me over the past seven days begins with a selection with rather less film and television than usual, although both feature, and a perhaps more eclectic range including the
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28th December 2025
John Wyver writes: a modest but I hope rewarding holiday selection this week, somewhat dominated by the culture of the United States. The image above is my photo of the interior of St Michael & All Angels, better known as
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21st December 2025
John Wyver writes: Stuff from the past week that has engaged and informed me, with a bias this time towards the USA (but not all of it bad). There is television and film, a trial from the 1920s, a Soviet
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14th December 2025
John Wyver writes: Television, photography, modern dance and the legacies of empire are among the topics of articles that engaged me this week. As for the image, it is another from my day trip to Paris on Friday, about
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