@JWConversation

Arts & culture commissioning editor for The Conversation; freelance journalist, author, book editor, speech writer, travel writer and ghost writer.

 Glasgow, Scotland
Joined April 2017
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London Film Festival round-up: a five-star weepie, a sweeping Spanish epic and a misspent youth in post-punk Manchester theconversation.com/london-f… via @ConversationUK

London Film Festival round-up: a five-star weepie, a sweeping Spanish epic and a misspent youth in...

This year’s festival showcased a slate of exceptional films, but there were a few big director misfires too.

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The Crucible: Arthur Miller’s morality tale was as much a reaction to his own marital failings as it was to the ‘red scare’ theconversation.com/the-cruc… via @ConversationUK

The Crucible: Arthur Miller’s morality tale was as much a reaction to his own marital failings as...

At the height of America’s ‘red scare’ witch-hunts, Miller, whose play makes a martyr hero of the husband, was having an affair with Marilyn Monroe.

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When powerful women are remembered as witches, we should challenge the historical motive theconversation.com/when-pow… via @ConversationUK

When powerful women are remembered as witches, we should challenge the historical motive

Historical women are remembered through reputations they never chose – we need not pass them on uncritically.

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Can AI help ‘humanise’ museums? New report reminds us why art matters in a changing world theconversation.com/can-ai-h… via @ConversationUK

Can AI help ‘humanise’ museums? New report reminds us why art matters in a changing world

Paying attention to the creative and critical uses of AI is an urgent task for art museums today.

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Can memoirs ever tell the whole truth? theconversation.com/can-memo… via @ConversationUK

Can memoirs ever tell the whole truth?

The complex relationship between truth and fiction is present in all memoir writing.

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Spider-Man’s 1,000th issue: the enduring appeal of the tortured Hamlet of superheroes theconversation.com/spider-m… via @ConversationUK

Spider-Man’s 1,000th issue: the enduring appeal of the tortured Hamlet of superheroes

Spider-Man has survived 60 years of deaths, disasters and reinventions. His greatest superpower? The ability to keep his story going.

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National Year of Reading: linguistic diversity should be central to reading for pleasure intiatives theconversation.com/national… via @ConversationUK

National Year of Reading: linguistic diversity should be central to reading for pleasure intiatives

Books in different languages do more than support language learning. They connect families, amplify diverse voices and make reading more inclusive.

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Women in architecture: the damaging workplace culture pushing talented professionals out theconversation.com/women-in… via @ConversationUK

Women in architecture: the damaging workplace culture pushing talented professionals out

The profession needs to dismantle the structural and cultural barriers that have held them back for far too long.

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Childless women who shape history and culture are still judged on not being mothers theconversation.com/childles… via @ConversationUK

Childless women who shape history and culture are still judged on not being mothers

Traditional motherhood has always been recognised, while women’s other achievements and bequests must continually prove their worth.

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Woah! Watch every minute of this. AMAZING undercover reporting from inside Reform. Huge kudos to new investigative kids on the block, @Verbatim_Media via @Channel4News. youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?is=p1PO…
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Fifa president Gianni Infantino set for fourth term – despite World Cup controversies theconversation.com/fifa-pre… via @ConversationUK

Fifa president Gianni Infantino set for fourth term – despite World Cup controversies

National football associations are lining up to endorse Infantino for a fourth term as Fifa president.

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Confessions II: a euphoric return to form that reveals a more vulnerable Madonna theconversation.com/confessi… via @ConversationUK

Confessions II: a euphoric return to form that reveals a more vulnerable Madonna

Confessions II might be a spiritual sequel to Confessions on a Dancefloor, but the new album is both sonically different and much more confessional.

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Taxi Driver at 50: how Martin Scorsese’s film foreshadowed the manosphere theconversation.com/taxi-dri… via @ConversationUK

Taxi Driver at 50: how Martin Scorsese’s film foreshadowed the manosphere

The movie chimed with the dark 1970s zeitgeist, but it also prefigured the 21st-century America of Maga.

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How new technology ensures the Titanic story endures theconversation.com/how-new-… via @ConversationUK

How new technology ensures the Titanic story endures

Rather than simply recounting history, each new version reworks a shared cultural template for contemporary audiences.

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How the BBC’s Learn Cornish podcast could help boost this minority language theconversation.com/how-the-… via @ConversationUK

How the BBC’s Learn Cornish podcast could help boost this minority language

In terms of heritage, visibility and identity, this inclusive introduction to Cornish could be crucial.

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How radical Victorian nuns pioneered education for poor girls theconversation.com/how-radi… via @ConversationUK

How radical Victorian nuns pioneered education for poor girls

These schools were radical for their time as they countered the rigid Victorian association of women with domestic work.

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Confessions II: why Madonna still matters theconversation.com/confessi… via @ConversationUK

Confessions II: why Madonna still matters

There are many more female artists in the 2020s than the early 1980s, but none is as iconoclastic as Madonna, more than 40 years on from her debut.

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Monroe at 100: Marilyn and the cult of the blonde theconversation.com/monroe-a… via @ConversationUK

Monroe at 100: Marilyn and the cult of the blonde

The blonde archetype Monroe represented in the 1950s continues to evolve and expand as an ever-fascinating part of pop culture.

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The revamped hiking trail regenerating an Italian region blighted by mafia stereotypes theconversation.com/the-reva… via @ConversationUK

The revamped hiking trail regenerating an Italian region blighted by mafia stereotypes

Hiking tourism is helping to rehabilitate a once-notorious region of Calabria and boost the local economy in area suffering from rural decline.

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