George Orwell's "1984" to become reality in the UK in 2024. Govt to snoop on bank accounts of the sick, disabled, poor, elderly & unfortunate. No court order needed. You won't be told. Same won't apply to tax dodgers, money launderers, fraudsters What next for civil liberties?

Miles Davis -Générique- The live score to the movie "Elevator To The Gallows" (1958 - Louis Malle) was composed and performed by Miles Davis in a single take while watching the screening of the film 🎺 🎞️

“Hamlet, a love story” is about a young theatre troupe from Belfast taking their experimental production to Hell’s Kitchen, NYC. Here’s the opening…The #BBCNSSA anthology’s out now with Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow and I discussed my story this eve on BBC Front Row

September 25 is World Dream Day. James Joyce described a dream he had about Molly Bloom for biographer Herbert Gorman:

Walter Benjamin died by suicide 84 years ago today while trying to escape fascism. I think this quotation exemplifies his most important idea: that we must direct our future towards a redemption of the past, and that revolution is the means to that redemption.

With Jon Fosse, Olga Tokarczuk is probably my favourite living writer, so thrilled to get stuck in to her latest work, The Empusium, published today and wonderfully translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. And that subtitle: surely a contender for the greatest of all time.

“women like us fall into two categories: dragons and fools. you must make sure they think of you as a dragon” rip Maggie Smith💔 (1934-2024)

Dame Maggie Smith obituary: A piercing presence on stage and screen bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The great, sadly late Maggie Smith: youtu.be/detAlTL9sbM?si…

It was just before Christmas, 2007 and I was doing some shopping in Peter Jones, Sloane Square. The lady in front of me at the till was struggling as her debit card would not register. Suddenly she burst into tears. "Are you OK?" I asked. "Maybe I could pay, and you can pay me

A tribute to the DAME I will never forget you. My thoughts are with your sons, grandchildren, family, friends & your legions of fans throughout the world who admired & loved you. I couldn’t sleep last night, so wrote some words (below).

Stop all the clocks. WH Auden died OTD in 1973.

Romanian-French poet, critic and philosopher Benjamin Fondane died at Auschwitz OTD in 1944. His long poem Ulysse was published in 1933. Fragments had appeared in Commerce, the same review that published the earliest French translation of parts of Joyce's Ulysses.

Smart meters are sold to us on the basis that they are convenient and can save us money. As I don't have one, I am on the standard variable tariff with my supplier (the only one available to those without a smart meter). Currently this means I'm paying about 9% more for my

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Elaine in Ghost Mountain said this! Because "The energy is in the paint." theguardian.com/science/2024/o…

Journalist: “For what would you exchange the Nobel Prize you have just been awarded?” Seamus Heaney: “For one more poem... Or for Cavafy’s soul!” – Interview with Seamus Heaney, 7 Oct. 1995. #poetry #cavafy

Johanna Thomas-Corr The Accidental Immigrants by Jo McMillan Ghost Mountain by Mumblin' Deaf Ro (pbk) The Orange Notebooks by Susanna Crossman Beast by Lulu Allison Celeste by Colette Snowden Orca and Bird by Anna Chilvers.