‘Children need the arts, as much as they need to run about in the fresh air. If you deprive children of shelter & kindness, food, drink & exercise they die visibly. If you deprive them of art, music, story & theatre, they perish on the inside, and it doesn't show.’ Philip Pullman

🇺🇸 American Doctor: "The bombing doesn't explain children being shot in the head. Every Day I was there, I saw children shot in the head. That's not an accident. That's deliberate targeting of children for death. That's murder."

I have just been reading about Romany child burials from a long time ago; they were buried with an acorn in each hand, usually along a green lane at a favourite stopping place, often resulting in twin oaks as a remembrance marker.

The people smoking outside crisis....

It’s hard to imagine a more shameful indictment of our sewage crisis than what I witnessed on the River Avon this afternoon. A flock of swans & ducks feeding & cavorting in a plume of raw sewage, just a few hundred metres from the centre of the genteel City of Bath. This huge

Must be blummin Just Stop Oil blocking the roads again

I'm pretty sure this disaster won't be showcased at the Cannes Film Festival next year. 'Serious' art doesn't deal with this kind of thing (for reasons explained in my 'Great Derangement').

Israeli attacks have killed at least 182 people in Lebanon. Get the latest on the increasingly deadly violence from Beirut-based media organization مصدر عام | The Public Source ⤵️

Thousands of wounded are filling Lebanon's hospitals, straining an already struggling healthcare system further. Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta, who recently traveled to Beirut to support relief efforts, describes what he's witnessed so far.

“THIS IS ANIMISM BY THE BACKDOOR!” Sadly our Rights of Nature Motion was rejected by Bath & North East Somerset Council. Apart from the slightly strange objection from one councillor (quoted above), most of the objections were of the view that, whilst it was an interesting idea, it was not possible to

Economic growth should sort things out surely... ?

Spectacular scenes off Devon’s coast last week, Giant Bluefin Tuna chasing baitfish only a few meters away from me!

The legend that is Paul Powlesland - we are so lucky to have this fine human on our planet...

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Let's grow the economy, everything is fine...

If you watch anything today let it be this. This man is speaking for his people and every single person who is standing in complete solidarity with Palestine. Let his voice be heard around the world. United We Stand 🇵🇸🕊️🇵🇸

Causation, causation, causation A lot of people this week have drawn the obvious allusions between the disruption caused by climate protesters & the disruptions caused by climate-related weather events, like the flash flooding in Valencia. A key part of the disparate treatment

Vanessa Andreotti, author of Hospicing Modernity talks with ⁦dan burgess 💙⁩ 💚 becomingcrew.substack.com/p/episode-96-i…

Feels insane that a couple of weeks ago we all watched a video of a young man burning to death in a hospital bed and somehow the global diplomatic incident today is about a bunch of racist football hooligans getting a shoeing. What are we doing?