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Running dog (but so much more elegant than the human variety)

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“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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Wild garlic coming up well

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Venus and the moon and very lovely quiet on the hills tonight -owls added to the quiet somehow

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Clubbed, beaten, attacked with dogs… The Geneva Conventions prohibit the targeting of healthcare workers, both civilian & military, yet Israel has tortured, starved & withheld medical treatment from Gaza’s doctors. It’s barbaric. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Why is this not headlining BBC Radio 4 and TV news? (Rhetorical question of course but it’s awful that the BBC is so biased) www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Realised I have a short piece in last but one issue of the lovely Leon magazine leonliteraryreview.com/issue-28-ele...

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Dog and ghost dog

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Powerful BBC memorial service to Auschwitz - important watch and we must never forget. Similarly, we look at Gaza devastation and pray - tolerance and understanding must be universal not selective. Treat others as you wish to be treated yourself

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We never imagined that 80 years after the liberation of #Auschwitz we would see such appalling levels of antisemitism and Islamophobia, and a resurgence of the far right, in Europe. #HolocaustMemorialDay

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Driven grouse shooting - what it is and why it should be banned - a Wild Justice blog wildjustice.org.uk/general/driv... Please read the blog and sign the petition - many thanks!

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Gorgeous Galloway on the hills today not minding the wind

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Driven Grouse Shooting is horrendous for our beleaguered native wild life. Please sign

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Labour came to power promising to clean up England's rivers. Now @SteveReedMP is burning taxpayer money taking river guardians @WildFishCons to court, because "cleaning up individual rivers devastated by pollution is administratively unworkable." WTAF? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

submitted 46 days ago • 21 comments

Dog therapy

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Listening to Alex Renton’s excellent In Dark Corners www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... strange never noticed Robert Jenrick calling for a new national inquiry into the alien culture of boarding schools and their medieval attitudes to children

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The great font at Castle Frome, a work of the Herefordshire school of Romanesque sculptors. This one has a baptism scene—complete with fishes. Marvellous. #FontsonFriday

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Dr Hussam Abu Safyia, I bear witness to your detention as if you were a Ukrainian doctor detained in Russian-occupied territory in violation of customary IHL. I wish my U.K. and German colleagues did likewise for there is no difference. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/o...

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Too many people can't walk to the pub, shops, school, doctors or to see friends of family because there is no safe way to go. 7 in 10 agree we should be able to use field margins if there's no safe alternative www.theguardian.com/environment/... buildstories.slowways.org/life-or-deat...

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Water, weaponised. New 194-page @hrw.org report concludes: “The evidence is overwhelming that Israel has used water as a weapon against the Palestinian population collectively, with lethal results.” www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

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Residents’ opposition ignored as hundreds of trees are destroyed in Worcestershire road widening scheme.

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Local people buy the land. Local people restore the land and its inhabitants. Here's an alternative to driven grouse shooting.

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

This is ever so good open.spotify.com/episode/7AsF...

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Time to read Cory Doctorow’s ‘radicalized’ again

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Decorations on North Hill

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I can't remember the last time I saw something so beautiful. Astonishing. Heart breaking. Politically affirming.

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Celebrating another year of life with this old poem friend, from Richard Hugo. May I find the will this year to "Believe you and I sing tiny / and wise and could if we had to eat stone and go on." poets.org/poem/glen-uig

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PEN International has launched an archive to commemorate the lives & work of the many writers so far killed in Gaza. It is a detailed honouring of each person. “I am Nour El Din Adnan Hajjaj, a Palestinian writer, I am 27 years old & I have many dreams...” www.pen-international.org/war-on-write...

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All true, but the damage done by the school English curriculum key- so little time for reading and delight in stories (as opposed to extacts) so much emphasis on learning to answer exam questions

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"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on) youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as

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Michael Longley’s ‘Blackbird’ from The Ghost Orchid

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So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists. If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.

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This is ever so good

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