🟢 'Madrid: A New Biography' will be published by Yale University Press on August 13 in the UK and August 27 in the US. This is the first major social, cultural and political biography of Madrid written in English, and I am very excited for people to read it. Yale University Press London📚

Como era de esperar, una maravilla.

autumn / otoño
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Irreconcilable differences. Lies and deceit. Unscrupulous, power-obsessed politicians fomenting and then exploiting deep social polarization. Plus ça change... it's all here in this terrific and riveting account of the collapse of the Roman Republic from Tom Holland. Superb.

Madrid's Museo del Prado confirming its status as probably the most extraordinary cultural institution in the world.

Walking home today...

Heavy storms approaching...

Busy over this Easter weekend - home maintenance, literacy work with prisoners, proofreading manuscripts. Also re-reading Geoffrey Parker's excellent biography of Felipe II, a great patron of the arts and by some distance the most important monarch in 16th century Europe.

A big Saturday night in Ipswich, starting my twelfth season ringside, supervising at a ProAm tournament featuring two members of the Australian Olympic boxing team heading to Paris later this year, then some professional heavyweights.

Mi sexta lectura de un libro infinito: un libro que enseña, que entretiene, que deslumbra, que consuela.

First of the cooler autumn mornings.
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This remains true. And it is an especially disheartening moment for all those who fought, in whatever way, against the selfish interests of a gang of provincial racists.

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Gracias, Paco. Fueron días y meses muy frustrantes. Una ignorancia casi total entre los periodistas y claro, que no faltaba el recurso a tópicos, siempre para denostar al estado…

Socially divisive, politically dishonest, morally corrupt.

La autoamnistía a los corruptos permitirá que siga en el poder un partido implacable con la malversación, del mismo modo que el pacto con la ultraderecha servirá para detener a la ultraderecha. Som cosas que se explican por sí mismas. elpais.com/opinion/2024-0…

Michael Moore dragging out 'the Spanish Inquisition' in an exercise of historical illiteracy and prejudice.

Ramón Masats colaboró con Ignacio Aldecoa en ‘Neutral Corner’, una magnífica mezcla de literatura y fotografía acerca del mundo del boxeo amateur en los años 60
D.E.P.