It smells so good here The London Library

Thread. I finished teaching a course on evil last Thursday. The last reading we discussed was Hannah Arendt’s “Thinking and Moral Considerations.” In the essay Arendt asks how politics can become so divorced from reality as to destroy our sense of moral judgment.

Horrific crimes against civilians are not redeemed by horrific crimes against civilians.

anita anand &I did two episodes earlier this year Empire Podcast on the roots of the current conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis. One, with James Barr, was on the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement and the way the British and the French partitioned the Middle East

Indefensible. Bombing a refugee camp with over 100,000 innocent people (so many children) to kill one single Hamas commander?! Absolute madness.The children who survived are being operated on without pain killers… these children are not responsible for October 7th.Unconscionable

"And as long as we have more confidence in the media’s ability to see the outcome than in our own ability to affect it, we surrender before the battle for our freedoms begins." ~Michael Podhorzer weekendreading.net/p/mad-poll-dis…

Beautiful thread about two remarkable people who were such inspirations to each other. “Joni, they’ll never get us”

Had a chat with the MP from Islington North about our local hospital & the wonder that is the NHS.

Ah, the blessings of the cursed. Shane McGowan’s torrid and mighty voice is mud and roses punched out with swaggering stagger, ancient longing that is blasted all to hell. A Bard’s bard, may he cast his spell upon us all forevermore.

Thrilled to share that my essay “For the Sake of a Few Trees” will be published in the latest issue of The London Magazine. Out tomorrow 💜💜💜 So proud to be part of this fantastic publication. The London Magazine

Our February/March 2024 issue is OUT NOW 🌿 Cover image by Martin Lau, winner of our Cover Competition 2023 Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curren…

Featuring: Ivars Šteinbergs on Latvia’s Poetry Scene, @KatieAnneTobinon Fashion and the Bloomsbury Group,Pacifica Goddard on Hetch Hetchy, Yvonne Reddick - Writer on Winter Hill

'The world, though made, is yet being made. That this is still the morning of creation.' From Pacifica Goddard's essay on Hetch Hetchy, moving forward and finding the beauty in that process. Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/essay-…

Today in the WRB: washingreview.com/p/wrbmar-2-2024

With @helen_rouner on Auden in Commonweal Magazine, Pacifica Goddard on the preservation of beauty in The London Magazine, and @AdamSmy36314691 reviewing Brian Cumming’s “Bibliophobia: The End and The Beginning of the Book”, in London Review of Books. Read now!

In case you missed it, here's Pacifica Goddard on the Hetch Hetchy valley from our February/March 2024 issue. Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/essay-…

Number 5 is an essay from our February / March 2024 (only one copy left...) by Pacifica Goddard. Pacifica grapples with beauty vs utility, and the ultimate terror of watching her young child in pain. Read it here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/essay-…