Fatema Ahmed
@hekale.bsky.social
Expurgated, accelerated, improved and reduced | deputy editor of @apollo-magazine.com
The tone of The Odyssey trailer suggests that Matt Damon won’t be spending much time chez Calypso or with the Phaeacians. But that’s okay; I felt very relaxed about Briseis (Rose Byrne) killing Agamemnon during the sack of Troy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2...
The Odyssey | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Universal Pictures
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December 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The tone of The Odyssey trailer suggests that Matt Damon won’t be spending much time chez Calypso or with the Phaeacians. But that’s okay; I felt very relaxed about Briseis (Rose Byrne) killing Agamemnon during the sack of Troy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2...
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“In story after story, epicene young men, difficult children, or wild beasts set out to shake up the stifling complacency around them”
@hekale.bsky.social on Saki’s fierce, funny, & wicked fiction
Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – b. 18 Dec
🎂🧵
💙📚
1/8
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4360...
@hekale.bsky.social on Saki’s fierce, funny, & wicked fiction
Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – b. 18 Dec
🎂🧵
💙📚
1/8
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4360...
Untameable Saki
One hundred years after Saki's death in the Great War, his stories are still wickedly funny
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“In story after story, epicene young men, difficult children, or wild beasts set out to shake up the stifling complacency around them”
@hekale.bsky.social on Saki’s fierce, funny, & wicked fiction
Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – b. 18 Dec
🎂🧵
💙📚
1/8
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4360...
@hekale.bsky.social on Saki’s fierce, funny, & wicked fiction
Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – b. 18 Dec
🎂🧵
💙📚
1/8
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4360...
This is very good, via @marta-zboralska.bsky.social (and I say that as the daughter of someone who was learning the King’s English in the 1930s.) open.substack.com/pub/marcusol...
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is very good, via @marta-zboralska.bsky.social (and I say that as the daughter of someone who was learning the King’s English in the 1930s.) open.substack.com/pub/marcusol...
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"Art history gives you tools to interpret the visual world and makes you more of a critical viewer of political messages, advertising and a barrage of social media images. It’s dangerous if you can’t examine these things critically".
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Art history is too important to be the preserve of the privileged
The subject is endangered at A level just as it couldn’t be more essential or universal. Helen Barrett makes the case for its survival in British schools
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December 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
"Art history gives you tools to interpret the visual world and makes you more of a critical viewer of political messages, advertising and a barrage of social media images. It’s dangerous if you can’t examine these things critically".
apollo-magazine.com/art-history-...
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Outstanding www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
Exclusive: British newspaper spoke to the wrong de Blasio, not an ‘imposter’
How a Long Island vintner, with the help of ChatGPT, prompted a transatlantic journalistic debacle.
www.semafor.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Outstanding www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
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The number of children homeless in England is the highest since records began.
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Number of children homeless in England the highest since records began - Shelter England
Number of children homeless in England the highest since records began
england.shelter.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The number of children homeless in England is the highest since records began.
england.shelter.org.uk/media/press_...
england.shelter.org.uk/media/press_...
This is really important on housing in London (and the FT has also reported on the government thinking about letting developers off the 35% affordable housing requirement) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty
Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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October 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This is really important on housing in London (and the FT has also reported on the government thinking about letting developers off the 35% affordable housing requirement) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Where do objects come from? No, where do they *really* come from? I spoke to Hew Locke for the October issue of @apollo-magazine.com about small boats, decorating statues and why Empire needs new clothes. apollo-magazine.com/hew-locke-pa...
Hew Locke and the Empire’s new clothes
On the eve of a major US survey, the artist talks to Fatema Ahmed about decorating statues and the ornamental side of the British Empire
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October 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Where do objects come from? No, where do they *really* come from? I spoke to Hew Locke for the October issue of @apollo-magazine.com about small boats, decorating statues and why Empire needs new clothes. apollo-magazine.com/hew-locke-pa...
In which Isaac Chotiner interviews a bowl of jelly and the bowl of jelly has a small realisation at the end. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Can Liberalism Be Saved?
The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.
www.newyorker.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
In which Isaac Chotiner interviews a bowl of jelly and the bowl of jelly has a small realisation at the end. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Glad to be in this month's Apollo, writing about Evan Walters's The Communist (c.1932): colour, ideas, Wales. Also mentioned: chapels, gospels and preachers (including the Manic Street variety), & being sceptical of rhetoric, like the little chap at the front.
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Miner miracle
In paintings such as The Communist, a Political Meeting, the Welsh painter Evan Walters captured the hopes and fears of working-class communities, writes Patrick McGuinness
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September 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Glad to be in this month's Apollo, writing about Evan Walters's The Communist (c.1932): colour, ideas, Wales. Also mentioned: chapels, gospels and preachers (including the Manic Street variety), & being sceptical of rhetoric, like the little chap at the front.
apollo-magazine.com/evan-walters...
apollo-magazine.com/evan-walters...
I’ve written something about Tom Lehrer for @apollo-magazine.com as a very small token of appreciation for his marvellous songs apollo-magazine.com/tom-lehrer-s...
Tom Lehrer, master of the musical art
The satirist who combined musical wit with political conscience and pure silliness has died at the age of 97. Fatema Ahmed sings his praises
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July 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I’ve written something about Tom Lehrer for @apollo-magazine.com as a very small token of appreciation for his marvellous songs apollo-magazine.com/tom-lehrer-s...
We absolutely loved Tom Lehrer in our house.
July 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We absolutely loved Tom Lehrer in our house.
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I am the only one with clarity of purpose! For @apollo-magazine.com , I provide the "Andor" take that really matters: a look at Luthen Rael's antiques business apollo-magazine.com/andor-luthen...
Andor and the antiquities trade | Apollo Magazine
In the <i>Star Wars</i> series about the creation of the rebellion, Stellan Skarsgård’s art dealer/spymaster is perfectly placed to understand the inner workings of empire, writes Will Wiles
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June 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I am the only one with clarity of purpose! For @apollo-magazine.com , I provide the "Andor" take that really matters: a look at Luthen Rael's antiques business apollo-magazine.com/andor-luthen...
From now on, all explanations of rank-choice voting must be in Bengali (heavy Hindi inflections optional) and through the medium of Bengali sweets.
আর অবশ্যই — আমাদের প্রিয় সিটি কাউন্সিল সদস্য, জেলা ৩৯-এর শাহানা হানিফ-কে আবারও নির্বাচিত করুন।
And of course — re-elect our beloved City Council Member from District 39, Shahana Hanif.
চলুন একসাথে ভোট দিই — এক হাসি-খুশি নিউ ইয়র্ক-এর জন্য।
Let’s vote together — for a hashi khushi New York. 🇧🇩🗽
And of course — re-elect our beloved City Council Member from District 39, Shahana Hanif.
চলুন একসাথে ভোট দিই — এক হাসি-খুশি নিউ ইয়র্ক-এর জন্য।
Let’s vote together — for a hashi khushi New York. 🇧🇩🗽
June 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
From now on, all explanations of rank-choice voting must be in Bengali (heavy Hindi inflections optional) and through the medium of Bengali sweets.
A former head of MI6 says that what the new head of MI6 will be really good at is 'understanding how we operate in the nexus between man and machine’.
June 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
A former head of MI6 says that what the new head of MI6 will be really good at is 'understanding how we operate in the nexus between man and machine’.
A lovely way of putting it
June 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A lovely way of putting it
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Sly Stone and Frederick Forsyth. The 20th Century was eclectic.
June 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Sly Stone and Frederick Forsyth. The 20th Century was eclectic.
I’ve judged all dealings with writers by Edmund White, who couldn’t have been more charming to a green assistant, or more professional with everyone. The Farewell Symphony is a great novel. RIP a brilliant ‘public-library intellectual’ (as he described himself more than once).
June 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I’ve judged all dealings with writers by Edmund White, who couldn’t have been more charming to a green assistant, or more professional with everyone. The Farewell Symphony is a great novel. RIP a brilliant ‘public-library intellectual’ (as he described himself more than once).
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For @apollo-magazine.com I wrote about Beatrice Minger's new film about Eileen Gray's E1027, and the strange paradox of Gray's reputation, which must be continually rediscovered www.apollo-magazine.com/eileen-gray-...
Maintaining Eileen Gray | Apollo Magazine
The designer was a genius but, as a new film shows, her achievements still have to be untangled from the men who kept getting in her way, writes Will Wiles
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May 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
For @apollo-magazine.com I wrote about Beatrice Minger's new film about Eileen Gray's E1027, and the strange paradox of Gray's reputation, which must be continually rediscovered www.apollo-magazine.com/eileen-gray-...
For the FT, I spoke to the painter Rachel Jones before the opening of her exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery www.ft.com/content/8f8b...
Rachel Jones – art-world Road Runner
The 34-year-old artist has enjoyed a frantic ascent, part-inspired by cartoon heroes. A new exhibition finds her as animated as ever
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May 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
For the FT, I spoke to the painter Rachel Jones before the opening of her exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery www.ft.com/content/8f8b...
‘We have a bonus scheme to protect our most precious resource, which is the senior management team’ – the chair of Thames Water www.ft.com/content/1f6d...
Thames Water executives to receive bonuses from £3bn emergency loan
Utility’s chair tells MPs that retention payments are needed to prevent rivals ‘picking off’ staff
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May 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
‘We have a bonus scheme to protect our most precious resource, which is the senior management team’ – the chair of Thames Water www.ft.com/content/1f6d...
You can already hear the effects of the cuts to the World Service because it has to repeat so much material - but its news is still better than anything else the BBC puts out.
May 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
You can already hear the effects of the cuts to the World Service because it has to repeat so much material - but its news is still better than anything else the BBC puts out.