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Neal Ascherson · Professor Heathrow: Asa Briggs says yes Asa Briggs used sweeping educational change to increase equality in England. He helped to make history, as well as...

‘When Asa Briggs left school, there were only fifty thousand university students in the whole of Britain. Today, to a substantial degree because of Briggs’s campaigns and ideas, there are more than three million in higher education.’

Neal Ascherson on the historian: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Congratulations @profilebooks.bsky.social !

I'm planning to set up a food delivery business, but don't want to pay the people who make the food. If they won't give me free food, they'll kill my business.

Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.

Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn

Very pleased to have acquired this for HarperNorth in my time there - it’s an incredibly important and powerful book, of course, but also one written with verve and great imaginative energy by Bill. Coming atcha in May next year:

Frame this. Hang it in every primary school classroom in the UK. Organise a daily pledge of allegiance. #KidLit #KidLitUK

Yes that’s the one book I’ve hers I’ve not read yet, so v much looking forward to that

Vigdis Hjorth has been my best new fiction reading this year. I’ve read her Will and Testament, If Only and now this. She does the fraught and ever-lasting emotional turmoil of families better than anyone. Thank you @versobooks.bsky.social

Fantastic news, congratulations, you’re with a fine home!

This is great

The truth: we need migration.

The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it.

Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality.

Reject it. Draw the line.

Suspecting as I do that, were I born ten or fifteen years later, I might’ve been taken in by at some manosphere nonsense I read quite a lot about it. This is up there with the best, not least in its giving no quarter to ‘understanding’ manosphere influencers’ prejudices and hatreds:

This was really astonishingly good, a contender for the best novel I’ve read this year @colwillbrown.bsky.social @jonathancape.bsky.social

ted. In this context I feel obliged to state once more that - like the hundreds of protesters arrested last weekend - I too support Palestine Action. If this makes me a "supporter of terror" un- der UK law, so be it. My books, at least for now, are still published in Britain, and are widely available in bookshops and even supermarkets. In recent years the UK's state broadcaster has also televised two fine adaptations of my novels, and therefore regularly pays me residual fees. I want to be clear that I intend to use these pro-ceeds of my work, as well as my public platform generally, to go on support-ing Palestine Action and direct action against genocide in whatever way I can. If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith and the BBC.

Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play.

‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith
and the BBC.’

Arresting the poets are we? Not a good look.

This is characteristically outstanding from Dan:

Made my greatest-ever single edit today:

This benefits nobody. Legalising it, however would stop migrants being exploited, enable businesses to function, reduce crime and cut waiting times for food deliveries

Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: Black Sabbath Live at Villa Park  | The Quietus Black Sabbath began with a broken body – Tony Iommi's industrial accident – it is both fitting and inspirational they end in the same way.

This, on the frailties of human bodies fighting the passage of time and Ozzy Osbourne’s last gig, is well worth a read. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Ozzy Osbourne Dead: ‘Black Sabbath’ Singer Passes Away at 76 As the lead singer of Black Sabbath, he helped invent heavy metal. On “The Osbournes,” he presented a comedic counterpoint to his rock ’n’ roll infamy.

Breaking News: Ozzy Osbourne has died at 76. The lead singer of Black Sabbath helped invent heavy metal before becoming a reality TV star on “The Osbournes.”

YouTube video by Black Sabbath BLACK SABBATH - "War Pigs" (Live Video)

This is amongst the very finest art humankind has produced. RIP Ozzy:

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How the Epstein scandal broke MAGA Trump’s supporters were promised revelations about a horrifying conspiracy. Instead, they’re getting denials and abuse from the president they helped elect

11:30pm, New Year’s Eve, 2014, I get a text message.

“Look this up. Move fast,” it said. “Do not contact the court clerk.”

And so it was that I spent the stroke of midnight in 2015 sitting under a kitchen counter reading the first court document to accuse Prince Andrew of sexually abusing a minor.

Patricia Lockwood · Arrayed in Shining Scales: On Sylvia Plath I was under no illusion that The Collected Prose would solve the mystery, or lay to rest the lie, of how Plath was...

honker sylvia plath piece out today and yes it did cause me to write poetry again

🚀 We’re #hiring a PhD student to join our research project – “Talking Empire – Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain (1960-2025)” 🇬🇧 – funded by the Carlsberg Foundation!
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Jo is absolutely right here: it's not just our moral compass that we have lost, but our entire sense of perspective and scale. Utterly shameful.

Richard Appignanesi obituary Graphic novelist whose pioneering educational books took a wry look at subjects including Shakespeare, Freud and Marx

I was really sad to hear of Richard’s death. We worked together for years at Icon and I always looked up to him. He was dazzlingly clever and often riotously, mordantly funny. He was the publisher - the guy - I wanted to be when I grew up, and that’s still true.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Hang on a second - 51% don't want the defense spending increase at all, 57% don't want taxes to rise for it and 53% don't want other spending to be cut. These are all very similar numbers, there's nothing very contrary or inconsistent here at all.

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This is an outstanding piece, me and @drkerryandrew.bsky.social were falling about: