I loved this novel, and so did my husband. Hilarious, satirical, astute and then tragic. Anyone interested in writing and writers should buy it.

I was born Muslim and lived all my life as an Arab. There was not a single day that I felt like a minority, that my mother tongue or culture was threatened with extinction, or that people singled me out because of my color, language or whatever I say or do. We have 21 Arab…

Understanding where antizionism comes from.

This kind of primitive antisemitism has no place in the modern world: why are we seeing it in the mainstream in 2024?

Post 1948 a Zionist is someone who supports Israel's right to exist. (It doesn't mean, supporting everything Israel does.) An anti-Zionist by definition, is someone who believes a nation of 9 million people should be wiped off the map.

As a former University of Leeds student I couldn’t be sadder to see this Nazi-like rhetoric.

And please don’t bother to tell me he said Zionist. Sometimes that word implies a distinct belief system. And sometimes, including this time, it’s just a more acceptable way of saying Jew.

Jews don’t count.

I have never posted a thread in my life, but I'm about to. This evening, the Society of Authors will hold an expensive & unnecessary EGM to vote on three resolutions, two of which have been put forward by a group of 66 pro-Palestine activists. www2.societyofauthors.org/2024/03/27/egm… 1/4

🍊Out today🍊

Brilliant, enthralling, funny and generous, this is an exploration of the indomitable human heart.

From the acclaimed author of The Lie of the Land and The Golden Rule, The Three Graces by Amanda Craig: brnw.ch/21wJo71

The threat made by Dane Baptiste against a woman on IG wasn’t vague & cannot be justified. It was targeted & dangerous. Driven (imo) by antisemitism & misogyny.
I refuse to look the other way & stay silent while only Jewish friends speak up. Hatred & racism like this has to end.

Marcus Arduini Monzo charged with murder of Daniel Anjorin in sword attack

thetimes.co.uk/article/41adb5… Can't stop thinking of this lovely and much loved little boy and his poor family. Such a hideous, pointless waste of a beautiful life.

Marika Cobbold HarrietCobboldHielte As Slartibartfast says in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Mice are...merely the protrusion into our dimension of vast hyperintelligent pandimensional beings. The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front. 😏

Male vs female contd The Times and The Sunday Times Letters 'women are just as likely to read a book by a man as by a woman.... . Men, however, do not return the favour. On average, they read four books by a man for every one book by a woman.' Mary Ann Sieghart

Bill Nighy standing outside my flat being still to listen to the spring birds on May Day morning is exactly what you’d want Bill Nighy to be doing right?

Great interview with the late great #PaulAuster theguardian.com/books/2023/nov…

Dr. Jill Stein🌻 One of the biggest and lesser known stories of Zionism is that the lands allocated to a Jewish state (two color map) were essentially those the Zionists reclaimed from malaria through land purchase, science and education (blue map). Moreover, the sudden and extremely rapid…

If this is a parody, it’s too wicked.

What *would* be a very reasonable question in an interview for academia, for someone very explicitly committed to some political causes, would be 'How would you teach and treat with appropriate respect a student whose political outlook is very different to your own?'

This is so shocking...appalling : Couple who left dog to starve to death while they went on holiday spared jail mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/c…