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At the World Conker Championships

19 December 2025

“... The annual World Conker Championships take place every October in the grounds of the Shuckburgh Arms, a pub in rural Northamptonshire. The 2024 event was overshadowed by cheating allegations, which helped make this year’s competition – the sixtieth anniversary games – the biggest that anyone could remember. I read that the BBC was dispatching eleven journalists to livestream the games, which were expecting 250 entrants ...”

Unrenounceable Core

David Nirenberg: Who were the Marranos?, 23 July 2009

The Other Within The Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging Modernity 
by Yirmiyahu Yovel.
Princeton, 490 pp., £24.95, February 2009, 978 0 691 13571 7Show More
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“... origins of this worldly modernity can be found in the events of 1391 and not – as works like Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism would have it – in the Reformation. Marranism provides the best genealogy for our ‘modern selves’, one that makes sense both of our early modern origins and our postmodern ends. Despite the scale ...”

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