Jim Durdin

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@EconUS @TheEconomist - fabulous article and much appreciated: I'm enjoying the quality of your China coverage right from the Tang to Xi Jinping.

I would like to point to one small mistake: in the 'Spring Landscape' graphic 心 is translated as 'heat' rather than 'heart' - surely a typo

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In accordance with the rules of twitter abuse I assume someone is about to respond "your silence on Luis Buñuel is deafening"

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https://t.co/oawT3grnYW sounds like this windfarm in Catalonia will make the landscape unrecognisable as the one Dalí painted, with wind turbines blocking tourists' views of melting clocks and long-legged elephants as they stride through the ocean

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@WulfrunianChris (Picture credit here Cllr. C Burden)

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@WulfrunianChris Some meals in Chinatown are just

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We’re definitely due a good Indian classical music concert in sunny Birmingham. Gutted to see TWO big sitar gigs coming up at the incredible @KingsPlace in London! Looking at you @mac_birmingham

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I enjoy that it touches on 101 figures that I was happy to know more about but would never read a full biography of.

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'The Free World' by Louis Menand probably my book of the year - though still on chapter 13 of 18. An incredible sweep of art, philosophy, literature etc.

https://t.co/pDTfMpB7vX

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In the other two the camera doesn’t really get under the skin of the obsession in the same way - Chess in 'The Chess Players' (quelle surprise...) and a political magazine in 'The Lonely Wife'. As a viewer you just accept that these dominate the worlds of the protagonists

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Finally watched Satyajit Ray's 'Jalsaghar' last week. Definitely my favourite of the three of his I've seen - the other two being 'The Lonely Wife' and 'The Chess Players'.

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From what I can see all three films are about blinkered aristocrat intellectuals who, in their different ways, are cut off from the world in front of their noses. Jalsaghar my favourite because we see and hear the music that the blinkered character is obsessed with

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As a kind of early New Year's resolution I thought I might experiment with using Twitter. Or 'The Twitter', as I believe it is properly called

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@WulfrunianChris I also love that your name is redacted here. Until proven otherwise I will assume that you stole this from someone and did a runner

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.@BorisJohnson Don’t merge the UK’s Department for International Development. Doing so would divert UK aid away from its life-saving purpose. #SaveAid #UKAid

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This will be a story to watch: "Uproar against Europe’s aviation emissions plan gains strength" - http://t.co/uAixx2TP

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http://t.co/hvW9hAU

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"What the sustainability movement can learn from Apple" http://t.co/v2nvv6I€

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Obama and Cameron on Climate Change priorities: http://bit.ly/jyqwKq

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Cloud computing's growing pains: Break-ins and breakdowns | The Economist http://t.co/J3rCtOd via @theeconomist