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We will not tolerate aggressive, abusive or threatening behaviour… From the new Private Eye, out now.

Mansfield Park: Is Fanny a drip or a protofeminist? richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/man…

Dickens on public furore over the shaming of a BBC presenter richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2023/07/13/dic…

A strange creature: a found poem by E O Wilson acairnofpoems.com/2025/08/23/a-s…

A privileged experience of hearing the music of Miles Davis in 2023 richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2023/07/14/a-p…

We have never seen anything as shocking as what the israelis are doing in Gaza in our lifetimes — Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs

A stroll and discoveries in Chelsea richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2025/08/24/a-s…

“More than 10,000 annual pre-term births are attributable to fine particulate matter from oil and gas, the authors found.” theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

This⬇️ Talking about dying isn't 'a job for palliative care.' If your patient's condition *may progress to end their life, then YOU need to be able to speak gently, clearly & kindly about the process of dying. Perhaps this might help you find some words: bit.ly/TheosDFB

A conversation on death with granddaughters richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2023/07/15/a-c…

Two poems on the death of children acairnofpoems.com/2025/08/25/two…

Traffic may be as important as industrial farming for destroying wildlife richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2023/07/16/tra…

Success for the single patient record depends on citizens and patients owning their data richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/suc…

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper is out today. 🧵

Wow—no wonder Canada is on fire. Lytton, B.C. just hit 41.3 °C, Canada’s hottest temp of 2025, as B.C. shatters daily heat records. Over 80 wildfires are raging. This is the climate crisis playing out in real time. #HeatRecord #BCWildfires #Pyrocene

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“Achieving this much is already glory.” – C.P. Cavafy, “The First Step”. Translated by Seamus Heaney, who died #OTD 30 August 2013. #poetry #cavafy

The two simple and very human reasons why all health systems, including the NHS, are bound to fail richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2023/07/20/the…

“I did not speak out” by Martin Niemöller  acairnofpoems.com/2025/08/31/i-d…