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Italian citizen, who was trying to get to his pregnant wife, had to continue his way by crushing the climate activists who were blocking the roads. Was his actions justified?

As you grow into your 30s, start having kids, see your parents age, take responsibility at work etc. you hopefully come to realize that you are now part of the load-bearing part of society. You give more than you get or things won't work. Perpetual adolescence is antisocial.

Another good piece from .Ralph Leonard on academic linguistification and the unaware hypocrisies of Kehinde Andrews: unherd.com/newsroom/kehin…

I love reading and I love advice about how to read. For a while I have been meaning to get round to writing my own reading guide. I finally wrote this about how to read, what to read and why. Link below

In London today for an academic conference at UCL! I have two hours free between 5:00-7:00, does anyone fancy meeting up for a drink?

That's a big number...

James Marriott so so good on English literature degrees and the decline of literacy newstatesman.com/culture/books/…

The most important part of writing well, by far, is simply reading, or reading well – if you’re reading good novels and worthwhile magazines (etc.), you’ll naturally write more coherent sentences, you’ll naturally become better at utilising voice, tone, sound and rhythm.

This is a good one: x.com/WCrowdsLive/st…

I'm quite amazed at how frighteningly good Chat-GPT has got at writing in the last few months I spoke to Ian Leslie about what this means for writers. Who will be the winners and losers? What are the best ways to adapt and survive? open.spotify.com/episode/1tHoUx…

For Joseph Raz respect for human beings as autonomous agents requires taking account of their capacity for making informed choices, for well-being rooted in freedom to realize the ideal of "a life freely chosen" such that one is an author, in significant part, of one's own life.

I wrote about leaving my office, and importance of place to writing bensixsmith.com/p/office-hours

feeling really ill so today I am stuck in bed doing absolutely nothing. When I was young this was heaven. Now, it is hell!

This is called viral fake news -- there is no such 'announcement.' And fwiw, #Syria has zero air defenses, so on an entirely practical level, it's a meaningless bit of fake news too.

Monday means: CrowdSource !

I spoke to a dozen of activists inside Iran. They have one thing in common: They oppose the Israeli attacks and they want the war to stop. theatlantic.com/international/…

Trusting tulsi gabbard is not journalism mehdi. It is crass stupidity.

Reading philosophy can be a hard slog, but the entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy are almost always a pleasure to read. What a real achievement this enterprise has been - brining philosphy within the reach of all. If only there were a Nobel Prize for Philosophy..

Tennyson on reading. Some of my all-time favourite lines of poetry: "So word by word, and line by line, The dead man touch'd me from the past, And all at once it seem'd at last The living soul was flash'd on mine"