Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Why travellers with pets may still be stranded after Monarch collapses into bankruptcy
JOY Roberts-Barry is making the best of the extra days she is spending in Spain after the collapse of Monarch. What else can she do? The problem is that she has two beloved dogs who were checked into a flight home Monday morning at the end of a holiday in Spain. Neither easyJet nor Ryanair […]
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Charities to share in £45 billion art market
IT DEPENDS on how you assess it but the latest Tefaf art market report estimates that global auction and private sales raised some $45 billion in 2016. An Art Basel report by UBS puts the value even higher. Either way, it is a huge market. Now some of the run off may go to helping […]
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Jane Austen and a steep learning curve on Box Hill
MARKING 200 YEARS since the death of the great Jane Austen, a hotel at the foot of the famous hill which plays a pivotal part in her novel Persuasion has come up with a novel walking tour. The Mercure Box Hill Burford Bridge Hotel, to give the establishment its new title (it used to be […]
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Can art transform base ideas into gold?
Koons, Hirst, underwater sculpture parks and other deep sea monsters
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Gipsy Kings and Dire Straits head back to Egypt for Soma Bay music festival
A year ago I booked a trip to Egypt’s Red Sea Riviera with two objectives: to escape January and find out why the newly formed Dire Straits Experience was kicking off its World Tour in Hurghada, No sooner had I booked a week at the misnamed Makadi Spa hotel (there being no spa) than the […]
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Less is more on the island of Menorca
As a punishment for its lack of support, General Franco vowed that Menorca would get no funds for tourism. Thanks to the lack of mass market packages, the island has got the last laugh. Leeds-born Colin Guanaria came to the island 21 years ago with his wife Margaret. They liked it so much they decided […]
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Why less is more on the island of Menorca
As a punishment for its lack of support, General Franco vowed that Menorca would get no funds for tourism. Thanks to the lack of mass market packages, the island has got the last laugh. Leeds-born Colin Guanaria came to the island 21 years ago with his wife Margaret. They liked it so much they decided […]
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Why is this 15th century work of art cracking up?
Museum brings science to the art of restoration
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How art is used to sell luxury homes
Designers are hiring works to sell luxury property
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Mind the generation gap
Are you ballistic about Brexit? In turmoil over Trump? Incandescent about our Conservative / conservative country? Are you searching for a scapegoat? Look no further – the elderly are to blame.
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