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The Playboy artwork that almost made me cry

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By Theo Hobson 
| The Spectator Australia
I did not mind seeing a naked woman, with metal strapped to her thighs, climb up a rope into a bell and hang upside-down inside it and be its clapper. I liked the way that a body became its plumed weight. But it did not make me cry, as it did my wife and daughter. I’m talking about an exhibit at the Venice Biennale by the way. Whatever his intention, Yassin has restored the dignity of these girls The show confirmed my sense that contemporary art is an enjoyable hunt for needles in haystacks.
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Middlemarch is overrated

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By Theo Hobson 
| The Spectator Australia
Middlemarch, which a Guardian poll of ‘experts’ has named as the best novel ever, is overrated. I enjoyed reading it when I was seventeen. I probably re-read it in my twenties. Then I grew up. I became a bit more sceptical of the para-religious sentimentalism-on-stilts that defines George Eliot’s ouvre, and this novel in particular. This is a pile of nonsense with a grain of truth in it Of course I was in love with Dorothea Brooke as a teenager.
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The trouble with Zionism

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By Theo Hobson 
| The Spectator Australia
I believe in Portugal. I believe that it exists. I believe that it has the right to exist. But I do not passionately believe in it. I do not feel any sort of loyalty to it. Those are obviously two different sorts of belief. So it would be unhelpful to have a word that combined them: ‘Portism’, say. That word would just sow confusion. It would unstably veer between the belief that Portugal is a legitimate nation, and a sense of loyalty to it. ‘Zionism’ is such a word.
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