Last night I became one of the new patrons of the Wilkie Collins Society. I did my DPhil on him 30 years ago so I would love to know who’s working on him or reading him now - with a view to organising an event. Who’s a fan? (And here’s a link to the Society website.) wilkiecollinssociety.org
Citizen Musk endorses this message saying that a murder should lead to violent reprisals: "please politicise [my] murder ... please use it to push a far right agenda ... please start a Reconquista" [ie, a call to drive millions of Muslims/migrants/minorities out of the west with violence]
Matthew Sweet
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
🎶 Brave Sir Nigel ran away...🎶
thecritic.co.uk/nice...
"foreign businesses"
Think I might set up as agent for 'could' and start charging for its appearance in headlines.
When Khan was an MP and came to the BBC to do a panel once, a staff member challenged him on (iirc) how he represented Muslims, and Khan replied, You're wrong and I'll tell you why...
This kind of robust exchange with the public used to be more standard. Your job is not to make everyone like you.
In case you need cheering up! Four inspiring panellists on the green shoots of a regenerative economy…🙌👇Next Thursday evening at LSE 👋
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIvi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twL...
Robert Hutton
Phil Tinline
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And the centre right’s cowardice in defending decency & order.
We’ve had Southport, Southampton and now Belfast: three mobs stirred up in public.
Just as Islamist extremists fed off an ideology that excused violence so do the racist right.
It falls to the centre right to challenge & defeat it.
Abby Innes
Might innovative firms take the radical action needed to tackle the ecological crisis, bucking the trend of destructive capitalism?
At #LSEFestival next week, join @akshatrathi.bsky.social, @abbyinnes.bsky.social, Fred Basso, Julie Calkins & Anuradha Chugh to discuss (with a free 🍷after)
www.lse.ac.uk
7pm Thurs 18 Jun | Fred Basso, Julie Calkins, Anugraha Chugh, Akshat Rathi | Free event at the LSE Festival: How to save the planet | Ticket required
This is very good, because it puts the blame not just on Farage/Lowe, but on most/much of the "British right" in politics and media (as well as the PM's inaction/acquiescence)
www.economist.com/britain/2026...
Amid riots in Belfast, Restore promises to put “murderous third-world savages to death”
Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums.
Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space.
It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?
Thousands of Southern Baptists have voted overwhelmingly to advance a formal ban on churches with women pastors in the nation’s largest conservative evangelical denomination.
