On sabbatical to write book about Spain; The Times correspondent; author of Travels In A Dervish Cloak - a Spectator/New Statesman Book of Year about Pakistan
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A glowing pile of paperbacks of Travels in a Dervish Cloak instagram.com/p/BhyJc96FtqR/… … 'A discursive, funny, moving portrait of Pakistan ... a brilliant debut' @DalrympleWill @ElandPublishing
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Meet the visionary Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán in our new exhibition, now open in the Sainsbury Wing.
Francisco de Zurbarán is one of Baroque Spain's greatest artists, known for his stunning paintings of religious devotion and spiritual wonder which can still have a powerful effect on us today.
Book your tickets here: bit.ly/43SmxGk
Special thanks to our Headline Corporate Supporter @iberdrola and @ScottishPower and our Contributing Supporter, @bbva
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Inside the battle to complete Spain’s other great unfinished church thetimes.com/world/europe/ar…
A great @rielcano report by @WilliamChislet3 Marking Spain's 50 years since Franco. Fascinating on democratic opening up & current divisions, corruption & climate realinstitutoelcano.org/en/w…
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Roman roads of Hispania in style of a metro map. All roads don't lead to Madrid. Via excellent map-obsessed @simongerman600
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in constant contact with the leaders of both India and Pakistan, the White House said on Friday as tensions continue to escalate between the two neighboring countries.
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Exclusive: Pakistan's Chinese-made jet brought down two Indian fighter aircraft, US officials say. I report with @idreesali114 reuters.com/world/pakistans-…
Thank you Abbas. Coming from you this is shockingly great!
Read @IsambardW's Travels in a Dervish Cloak is one of the finest I have read on Pakistan.
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Dramatic pictures in today’s @thetimes of King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain visiting flood-hit areas in Valencia.
Report by @IsambardW ⬇️
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Pedro Sánchez is in office but not wholly in power. I have returned as Spain correspondent for @TheEconomist with this story:
economist.com/europe/2024/10…
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Archduchess Margarete, 1567-1633, daughter of Maximilian II who refused marriage to Philip II & took the veil as Sr Margaret of the Cross as a Poor Clare in Santa Clara de las Descalzas Reales, Madrid.
Andres López Polanco c. 1584.
(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
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Just a few days to go (deadline 31 July) - get your nature writing (prose or poetry) entries in asap!
🚨The Laurie Lee Prize - open to anyone living in, or from, Gloucestershire.
🚨Adult and youth (16-20) categories.
🚨Free entry & prizes of £200-1000.
stroudbookfestival.org.uk/la…
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Key chart to keep in mind as the Conservatives suffer their worst ever defeat:
The Tories didn’t lose this election because they were too right wing on some issues or too left wing on others.
They lost because voters of all stripes judged them to be incompetent and dishonest.
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In this first week since ‘Broken Threads’ was released I’ve had some heartfelt responses: I appreciate them all! Here’s my great-aunt Anne, 99, when I took an early copy to her in Oldham. Thanks to her I understood my grandmother Mary’s early life and the Quinn family’s trials
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Every Israeli, every American, everyone anywhere in fact, should read this article: The lost future of young Gazans - on.ft.com/3Pnarx7 via @FT
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This sequence of Flamenco opens with the impressive photo my brother took of Olga Pericet at the Festival de Flamenco in Jerez
Thanks @TheEconomist for recommending my Pakistan book as country votes and is facing its 23rd bail-out from the imf, Imran Khan in jail, politics in grip of army and the Pakistani Taliban resurgent. @MishalHusain @husainhaqqani @DalrympleWill @aamirghauri
These six books provide an introduction to a troubled, nuclear-armed and strategically important country. Here are our picks for what to read about Pakistan econ.st/42ssYxq 📚
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Among the BJP government's most unexpected projects: Taking over and running Delhi's poshest members club. My story for @FTMag about the battle for control of the Delhi Gymkhana
How Modi’s party took over one of India’s most prestigious private clubs
on.ft.com/3tnC7d2
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