Reviewed Alan Lester's The Truth About Empire for Red Pepper but if you wanna read it you're going to have to financially support one of the finest organs of the UK left

Nabokov, from Speak, Memory (1966)

The Best Of Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 1,1969

these people will always have my entire heart

Obviously this bloke's just a common-or-garden race-baiter with notions, but the idea that only Muslims can possibly care about Muslim lives is percolating through the discourse with impressive effectiveness

occasional reminder that Sir Nicholas Winton - who saved 669 Jewish children from the Nazis - forged British Home Office entry permits. bbc.com/culture/articl…

what is happening here

"The excitement I feel looking at the 1960s architecture of Kenzo Tange is rooted in the excitement I felt as a six-year-old boy looking at the animated Autobot City.” Owen Hatherley on Transformers. newsocialist.org.uk/more-than-meet…

this is an incredible essay

A pregnant woman & six children are among the people killed at our border today. 10 of the 12 people that died were women and girls. How many had been refused a visa? How many had family here? Tell their story.

In Search of Lost Time but every sentence ends with "lol" ... drive.google.com/file/d/1rrahfd…

Thinking today not only of the victims who perished in Grenfell but Dawn Foster, one of the journalists who was at the forefront of coverage standing up for residents and who would undoubtedly have plenty to say this morning if she were still with us.

The more ubiquitous this book gets the prouder I am that 2 yrs ago Tom Pickard, Stephen Regan, Paul Batchelor & myself all refused to appear in Stewart’s terrible BBC doc about Basil Bunting because at the end of the day he’s a Tory who voted for the bedroom tax & always will be

Just tell me which characters are neurodivergent and let me die

It all sounds terrifyingly familiar to anyone who has read the British press reacting to the great Indian Uprising/Mutiny of 1857. Exactly the same dehumanisation of anyone who dare resist the subjugation of the conquerors

the absolute king of inventing funny little guys who get up to stuff

Congrats to Hachette on a victory which will make it harder for many of the people they pay very little to write books for them to write those books

Last week, 179 healthcare workers gathered at St Thomas’ Hospital to demand freedom & justice for the 179 Palestinian healthcare workers secretly detained by Israeli forces. These healthcare heroes should be saving lives, not being detained. #FreeGazaMedics #EndIsraeliApartheid