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Violent is as violent does
Perspective Media
July 14, 2024
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This week Michael Janofsky looks behind the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, as Robert Rigby ponders expat life in rural France where the far right is on the rise. On a lighter note, Rowan Pelling questions the new PM's creds as a sex god, and Peter Phelps makes a break for life on the water. Plus this week’s book review and latest must-reads from our website.
Violent is as violent does
BY MICHAEL JANOFSKY
Donald Trump narrowly avoided assassination at a political rally, but violence and battle metaphors are part of his own stock in trade
“I am your retribution,” is one of Trump's favoured campaign lines
C’est la vie
BY ROBERT RIGBY
A Brexit refugee writes from rural France, where the far right’s agenda is resonating with disaffected farming communities
Many of the flaked-paint shutters of these picture-postcard French villages are permanently shut
Is “competent” the new sexy?
BY ROWAN PELLING, EDITOR
Credit: Simon Dawson/No 10 Downing St.
Female columnists are rushing to praise Keir Starmer's chappish allure, but decency and reliability don’t really cut it in the sex god stakes
Women are always saying they fancy clever men, but I live in Cambridge where many brilliant eggheads find it very hard to date
Cut and run
BY PETER PHELPS, PUBLISHER
A mid-lifer abandons his conventional home on dry land for a peripatetic life on a narrowboat
It’s a craving for space, and the freedom it brings, that has me heading for what boaters call “the Cut”
Must-reads from our website
Book of the week
REVIEWED BY BELINDA BAMBER
This engaging memoir confronts the taboo of “lunacy” lurking in the attic of the author’s mind as well as in his parents’, and, more widely, in Britain’s own urgent yet unacknowledged mental health crisis
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