Sublime

The son of a Labour minister, Serota studied economics and art history at Cambridge, then wrote his master’s thesis on the painter J.M.W. Turner (the prize’s eponym) at the Courtauld Institute of Art. He joined the Tate in 1988, when it was little more than a fine outpost of national heritage, and he now presides over an empire of four museums—Tate

It’s the ‘moment of truth’.

I chose to Control the Controllable that was my mind (the ‘Inner Citadel’).

In every individual scene a character is confronted by their opposite;

THE CONTROLLABLES: THE MIND Our emotions are categorised as ‘Controllables’.

a key aspect of what is entailed by being different from the majority: you become accountable, you have to explain yourself.

Bill was a master at establishing those conditions: he went to extraordinary lengths to build safety, clarity, meaning, dependability, and impact into each team he coached.

Where Chamberlain—the Old Umbrella, the Coroner—was staid and deliberate, the new prime minister, true to his reputation, was flamboyant, electric, and wholly unpredictable. One of Churchill’s first acts was to appoint himself minister of defense, which prompted an outgoing official to write in his diary, “Heaven help us.” The post was a new one, t

what about dual voting systems, where you have one vote for yourself as well as a second vote that you can allocate to someone else whom you trust to use it wisely?