Such as reading a book to a child about how if you're a baby baths 'are not nice They are dangerous Someone has to watch you ALL THE TIME', introducing (a) fear & (b) the idea it's a dreary obligation for a parent to look after their child
What a soothing nanny state bedtime tale

'Assisted suicide' is very very dangerous

“Only voluntary, inspired self-restraint can raise man above the world stream of materialism.”

'Perhaps there's a strain of pessimism so deep that it becomes a weird kind of optimism.'
Richard Bratby in a piece about the funding of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in The Critic

A belated happy birthday to Gábor Takács-Nagy who says 'Never forget the child within you. Because music is full of contrasts and emotions.”

Abelated happy birthday to Gábor Takács-Nagy: 'Never forget the child within you. Because music is full of contrasts and emotions”

Imtiaz Mahmood Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️

What on earth is the story?

'Patriotism goes away quickly when you realise you want to live.'

I'm working in a Pret in the west end, and at the next table there's a little boy and his grandma, and he just said 'I've had an amazing day, thank you VERY much' and she said 'I love you, you know' and my heart

Shadi Khalloul, Aramaic Christian Israeli, reminds us how Lebanon was so rapidly changed from a thriving, joyous place into a conflict ridden, desperate, failed state & points out how easily the chaos could spread through UK & Europe.

Wonderful every time a person becomes Christian but since an amusing Antipodean said this clip looks like a segment of abctv Gardening Australia I find it difficult to take as seriously as perhaps I should.

Oh boy! What a world our children & grandchildren are taking on higglu I hope the whole thing's a script, not actual

Les Murray, the Catholic convert I love best, died on 29 April 2019. He loved 'that wonderful defiance of rationalism that is trans-substantiation'.
Here he is in a snippet from a longer interview ABC News in its wisdom no longer gives us access to:
abc.net.au/listen/program…

I love this tweet
Lord Steerforth, remembering the recent loss of your friend, I can’t help thinking that perhaps the funny die too young

What first attracted you to the party 23 points ahead in the polls?

I spent a week as a Deliveroo rider. And learnt a lot.
First up, Deliveroo likes to claim you should earn at least the minimum wage of £11.44 while working. Me?
I worked for 22hrs 50mins, rode 105 miles, did 27 drop offs and earned £120.38.
That works out at £5.28 an hour🧵

The London Mayoral race seems to be a foregone conclusion. It seems a great pity as my impression of Sadiq Khan is that, for all his accusations of racism against his opponent, there is only one candidate who has no interest in, & possibly dislikes, over 50% of London's citizens.

Sadiq Khan's behaviour here is that of a bully. Susan Hall would not bring in racist policies, whatever she may have Tweeted - none of that has anything to do with policy. Khan knows that, but he chooses to act like a playground ostraciser because he can't defend his own record.

Having scrapped NowTeach's funding, the government says they would like to come to them for advice in a few months' time - unfortunately, due to the removal of funding, they will no longer exist. No one will be there to help the government do what Now Teach already did well.