This is totally disgusting. ⁦Elon Musk⁩ should retract. It occurs as British Conservatives are told that the problem with the Nazis was that they “mucked up” the case for nationalism. This normalization of the heinous is a disgrace, washingtonpost.com/arts-entertain…

Canal under the Westway, on my morning walk with Dog. Not an archipelago but @dedalusdenaries and Annette Dittert  might like it.

Literature isn’t lovely stuff. It’s unsettling, painful, shapes your morals, shows you the sublime and the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. And it can console and inspire those who get to a certain age and wonder if it was worth spending so much time in the office.

This is the 3rd time I’m retweeting this but another thought; this puffed up little Lord is addressing someone who arrived on the Kindertransport - his response is vile at every possible level, including its insensitivity towards & disrespect for Lord Dubs, who is visibly shaken.

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‘Ridgid and dead! Nice to hear Betjeman’s ‘Shropshire Lad’ on BBC Radio 3. ‘…should be read in a Midland accent’. Petroc Trelawny

The locomotive in Ankara, to take me to Kayseri. I missed the chance yesterday, as I took the slow train from Istanbul, to make the observation that I was slouching away from Byzantium. @dedalusdenaries

Extraordinary landscapes; extraordinarily kind people. ⁦@dedalusdenaries⁩

Cappadocia

Modern Islamic design: mother-of-pearl inlay in a side door at the amazing Çamlıca Mosque in Istanbul.

Stained glass at the Çamlıca Mosque, reminiscent of Chagall’s windows at Reims.

For androids everywhere.

“We were late to the game, we were complacent, and we assumed saner people in government would shoot it down,” Element’s Matthew Hodgson nails it. politico.eu/article/whatsa…

Looking west, Tuscan coast, early September. ⁦@dedalusdenaries⁩ ⁦@NJPitchford⁩

The last of Churchill’s Few returns to Dublin school 87 years after he left irishtimes.com/history/2023/0…

Hello United Airlines after 4 months, I'm still waiting for a refund for my flights. I've tried all channels to no avail. What else do I ned to do???