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The year 2000, an unfinished palace, a spruced up bungalow, and whatever remains
My latest Substack thing 👇
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A new essay from me on The Clearing
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: A US soldier in the Vietnam War. 📷 Horst Fass (1965).
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Maybe the police should try investigating actual crimes rather than harassing women for eating breadsticks and hummus.
THE SUNDAY TIMES: Met smash down door of Quaker meeting house to arrest activists #TomorrowsPapersToday
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I want to make one thing clear. I left @BBCNews last year after covering Gaza for months because I could see evidence accumulating into the robust conclusion that Israel has been committing war crimes & crimes against humanity. 1/4
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Office debate. Should we refer to teams in the singular or the plural?
For example:
Lidl-Trek are sponsored by a supermarket and have some canny riders
or
Lidl-Trek is sponsored by a supermarket and has some canny riders
72%Plural - are/they/have
28%Singular - is/it/has
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One of many gifts from Michael Longley. One I treasure all the more, now that he has left us. His death is a great loss for poetry, for Belfast, and for literature on these islands and well beyond. He will be greatly missed. (I write at more length on Insta)
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Maybe it’d be a relief to everyone if we stopped pretending it’s still “Christian” in cases where it’s been utterly co-opted by nationalism, and worse.
Christianity is an attempt to be Christlike. It’s a poem, a largeness of thought; a love of existence, not limited to your own.
My top four books read in 2024: a walk around the UK in 1982; late C19th Belgian Congo horrors; wild Edwardian aristos; & what becomes of the ageing homosexual ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I wonder if @simonmontefiore would mind clarifying whether he considers Ireland's opposition to ongoing Israeli war crimes to be part of what he regards as its being "weirdly, unreasonably anti-Israel". Can't imagine he'd want to be ambiguous on this matter
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“….What have I to leave you but the ruins of old courage, and the lore of old gallantry and hope?”
Happy 81st birthday, Marilynne Robinson. Every solstice, I return to a 6 min clip of her reading from the end of ‘Gilead’ and I swear I can feel the world turning.
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MSF is outraged after an Israeli drone strike almost hit five of our Palestinian and international staff on their way home from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
As always, the Israeli authorities were notified about our movements and the vehicle was identifiable with an MSF logo.
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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X theguardian.com/media/2024/n…
Bluesky seems to have taken off, hope we can depart from here very soon
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