Now in 1966, to the minute, 116 children & 28 adults were buried alive in a primary school in Aberfan, S Wales as a collapsing colliery slag heap caused a massive landslide. The teacher David Beynon was found, braced against his blackboard, with five little children in his arms

Virginia Woolf took her own life 83 years ago on this day. Here is the beautiful final letter she left for her husband, my great-uncle Leonard Woolf 💜

Football supporters on their way to the Cup Final between Huddersfield and Preston remove their hats as they pass the Cenotaph War Memorial. London, 1922.

This must have been what it felt like in late antiquity as the Roman empire fell apart and people gradually lost the ability to read classical texts

Joseph Campbell, what a passage

Every day is a duel, your focus against everything trying to steal it. #SundayMotivation

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

Just read this on holiday. Tough reading but essential - especially now. I can think of a few who really need to read it. Thanks Daniel Finkelstein

Saul Niguez on João Felix: "He has everything it takes to be a champion, but if you don't work hard, it's useless. We've tried many times to help him, but if someone doesn't want to… Talent without commitment isn't enough."

AI visualizes what mental health disorders might look like

'The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned. I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.' Alberto Manguel

“If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on... then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me.”

If PGMO gave referees some basic training in the application of behavioural psychology to VAR it would reduce the error rate on marginal calls. Watch my psychological analysis below of the incident in the Chelsea/Fulham game to see how... #VAR #CHEFUL #PGMOL #SkySports

Maybe you’re glad Charlie Kirk is dead. Maybe you think he was hateful and harmed your community. I’m not going to convince you to feel sad. But I want to show you where both sides are headed. Because when the assassin fired, they didn’t just hit him. They hit all of us.

"You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; You should fear someone who has only one book; And he considers it sacred, but he has never read it." Nietzsche

The most enlightening quote on reading you'll read all day — from Seneca

"If we lose our ability to read books – properly read them, all the way through – we are cooked as a civilisation. #Books are...the best means yet devised of transmitting deep thinking and rich bodies of knowledge across generations - Sam Leith 🐝 in The Spectator

“Most of us have small, sad places in our hearts. My father felt deeply but kept his feelings to himself. Or rather, being a writer, he let them escape in his writing. And so such sadnesses as there were put on cap and bells and emerged as Eeyore.”~C.R.Milne #WorldMentalHealthDay

Raising a child in a happy & conscious family

Annual massacres of migrating birds in Lebanon using glue traps, nets and guns are ecocide. Support Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) heroes.