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In 1890 W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys founded a poetry club. Based mainly at Fleet Street’s immortal ‘Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese’ pub, with occasional appearances at the Domino room in the Café Royal, poets gathered together to dine and drink. Whilst it was based on a core of poets, many others attended on an ad hoc basis including Oscar Wilde, Francis Thompson & Lord Alfred Douglas. The camaraderie, banter and poetry that played out in their dreams, ambitions and for many, their difficult lives led Yeats to call them ‘the tragic generation’.

Happiness Hacks is a new podcast from British psychotherapist John Davidson. In each bite-sized episode John shares a happiness hack that is simple to understand, easy to implement, and guaranteed to make you happier.

A dark and riveting thriller that reimagines the life and mission of the Spanish nationalist enlisted to murder Leon Trotsky: Based on a true chapter of world history and ten years of research, here is the story of the real-life reluctant soldier and killer, Ramn Mercader—the obedient assassin. Ramn Mercader was plucked from the front of the Spanish Civil War by the Soviets and conscripted to murder the great intellectual Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik Revolution who was exiled in the 1920s for opposing Joseph Stalin.

Steed and Dr Keel return to action in these four re-creations of classic lost episodes.

How can commuter rail stop being a victim and start to lead change? Commuter rail has experienced a vast culture shock, where the shorthand of life has suddenly become unrecognisable. Throughout 2023 Trenitalia UK trialed a proof of concept scheme called Futuro, which took a subset of potential future leaders, gave them problem solving frameworks and left them to propose solutions. In January 2024 that group fed back their findings, and were joined by fellow future leader Callum Swanston who works elsewhere in rail, plus a variety of UK and international senior railway leaders. Hosted on Acast...

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Brought to you by Penguin. From the remarkable man whose life inspired the heartstopping film, ‘I Swear’, a book that offers extraordinary insight into what it’s like to live with a severe form of Tourette’s Syndrome: a fascinating, complex condition that’s more common than most of us...

We live in an anxious age. Long-held certainties, cherished beliefs, and social trust are crumbling. Don’t expect things to get better. For too long we have taken our Christian heritage—the heritage upon which America was built—for granted. But we’re rapidly, and now inevitably, losing the Christian culture that shaped the American republic. What will take its place is a despotism—and a new paganism, worse than the old, because it will be based on a hatred of Christianity.

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