2026 books 066: Wright of Derby: From the Shadows, by Christine Riding and Jon King
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2026 books 066: Wright of Derby: From the Shadows, by Christine Riding and Jon King
2026 books 065: The Last Resort, by Paul Leonard
I'm a day late for this, but for International Women’s Day, Crisis Group President and CEO Comfort Ero shares a list of her top ten Crisis Group publications, op-eds, interviews and podcasts from the last year, exploring how conflict and gender intersect.
www.crisisgroup.org/sco/global/c...
I watched it on a plane last year. Sheer joy.
When hunting at Lowesby Hall in Leicestershire on 25 November 1927, Victoria risked riding under a low bridge, and was fatally injured when she hit her head on the stonework. She was 35.
Victoria became a leading figure in the world of horse racing and hunting. Her two daughters were among the first three women admitted to the Jockey Club and her great-granddaughter Clare Balding is a well known sports journalist, particularly on racing.
Victoria’s father was the Earl of Derby. She first married Neil Primrose, son of Lord Rosebery, a Liberal MP himself. They married in 1915 and had a daughter in 1916, but he was killed in 1917. She married Malcolm Bullock in 1919 and they had a daughter in 1920; he was a Tory MP from 1923 to 1953.
In the National Gallery in London yesterday, I was really taken with this 1899 portrait of seven-year-old Victoria Stanley by John Singer Sargent. Dressed for hunting, she is clearly ready to have fun but also won’t take any nonsense. Sir John Lavery also painted a portrait of her as an adult.
2026 books 064: Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen, by Alice Loxton
I’m looking for speakers for a London event on the science of Star Trek. I’d really appreciate suggestions from underrepresented minorities in STEM, especially PoC/global majority.
(10 min, central London, Sept, currently unpaid but I’m trying to fix that)
Feel free to message
2026 books 063: The Mind Trap, by John Peel
Peter Kellner’s advice to the next Labour prime minister, and good analysis of how Starmer failed.
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
I may have my frustrations and disappointments about Starmer as a domestic politician, but internationally, I think he’s serious, responsible and trying to do his best for U.K. in unbelievably complex int’l environment, despite treasonous ghouls like Farage doing their best to undermine him.
2026 books 062: De gekste plek van België: 111 bizarre locaties en hun bijzondere verhaal, by Jeroen van der Spek
2026 books 061: Firefall, by @0hmyst4rs.bsky.social
Venus in the gloaming.
2026 books 060: Ghost Stories, by George Mann et al
