Swearing, feminism, lefty, eco, argumentativeness, home education, science, public engagement with science. Occasional pedantry. And maybe some menopause jokes. I failed to copy over my contacts from the other place. I’ve not ditched you on purpose.
Well this is terrific. If you start reading NOW in the UK, the date at the beginning and end will both be correct.
Lisa DeBruineToday is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.
If it had been a Muslim who blew up a UNESCO site you’d all be crying about the fall of western civilisation and loading explosives into American fighter jets 🤢
Chris⚖️Justice💥 700 tons of explosives. Israel detonated 700 tons of explosives beneath Beaufort Castle in South Lebanon, in the middle of the night. A 900-year-old Crusader castle that UNESCO just listed as endangered heritage. @sarahabdallah.bsky.social
one last thing, I promise: there’s way more actual empirical evidence of long covid than there is of kids experiencing ‘devastating’ consequences from missing school, ‘covid cohorts’ etc
And exactly as I expected. A few hours on and the story is nowhere on the BBC website. Had Reform won it it would still be the top story.
Mark ThompsonCan you imagine how much of a story it would have been if Reform had won the Manchester mayoral contest. And for a while it looked not only possible but in some ways probable looking at the polls a few months back. And yet they were trounced. They got nowhere near. That should be a big story.