Joburg!

My neighbours are doing house renovations and I cannot begin to tell you how much I hate them now.

Just got my new business plan! The Revolutionary Tea Room...!
Whose coming?

So glad you broke this strange promise to yourself when you wrote your memoirs - I, for one, was greatly enriched by this total failure of yours. You write beautifully. This is a good addiction!

This has happened to me 4 times. I swear I will never do it again. It is HORRIBLE.

What a catclysmically irritating man! Shocked he is still alive!

My husband finds life easy, and ‘corrects’ me because I don’t | Ask Philippa theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/a…

ChatGPT CEO replicates voice of Scarlett Johnasson for their AI system, as it sounds like the romantic AI she played in the film, Her. Johnasson who was originally approached and said no is unhappy. Men’s objectification of women for their own romantic desires has no boundaries.

So vaccines protect women against sex with Andrew Tate, and now this?

Yes! It's the 'marketing' hassle feeling that's horrible. The readers I love

Tonight, my thoughts are with the countless victims of the Islamic Republic – those whose lives were taken due to the crimes of Ali Khamenei and Ebrahim Raisi.

Their futures were stolen and many endured untold suffering in their final moments. We will always remember our heroes.

In a world-exclusive interview, ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC explains why he's seeking arrest warrants for leaders of Hamas and Israel, and breaks down the legal process leading to today's announcement.

There is nothing like writing a book to make a person feel like a total failure - every time I write a book this happens. Each time it's worse. Each time I forget that it happens - that sense of weirdness and shame and the promise, like any addict, NEVER TO DO IT AGAIN

nothing like long haul flights to confirm one's view of that one is an utter failure as a human being

All I know is that you’re not a serious country if you put your mass-murdering president and foreign minister together on a chopper in bad weather during the most contentious time in your region since maybe forever.

Calling all authors! Johannesburg Library has been closed since 2021 and needs to reopen! Sanctuary and Darwin’s Hunch are both Joburg stories. Thanks to the campaign led by the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation and the Johannesburg Crisis Alliance. City of Joburg

After the hurly burly of a weekend as a minor literary celebrity in Franschoek, I am looking forward to being a total nonentity in London again

Support the Humanitarian Guard!

The ICC has applied for warrants to arrest both the leaders of Hamas and Israel for war crimes. What more will it take for the UK Govt to end our complicity, act on the evidence and immediately revoke all licenses for arms exports to Israel?
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BREAKING The Constitutional Court has ruled that former President Jacob Zuma is not eligible to stand for the National Assembly.

Leaving Cape Town...filled with that elegaic feeling for the loss of the life I couldn't live out here ... wouldn't....couldn't...didn't. Don't know which but it hurts