Colin Silver

I wrote to my MP.
"We try to live lives full of purpose, of service and usefulness to others. What purpose are our lives if we don't help Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed stay alive? We will all have failed so badly. Please, please help stop this."
Find yours here:
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The people of Gaza need to be included in everybody's moral circle.

Hard to believe, but there's a cinema in this building. It's at Dartington Hall in Devon and has to be a contender the most beautiful cinema in Britain. #cinema #Devon

The wonderful work of the Flemish painter Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626-1679). He was active in Antwerp in the mid 17th century. #art #painting

Israel destroys ceasefire in hours Today, Israel slaughtered Palestinians and resumed siege. Not a "ceasefire"

Israel has destroyed the "ceasefire" in hours.

It is murdering Palestinians, and maintaining its illegal siege.

Not a ceasefire.

New post 👇

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In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

The calls for redistribution and wealth taxes are gaining momentum. Zack Polanski / the Greens are on the right side of this argument. Labour will follow the Tories into irrelevance if they don't wake up and change their leadership.

Well that's the trouble. We did. We voted out the Tories, only to get a government that now does the same or worse. It's not hard to see why people feel like giving up on politics.

Hopefully many, many others will follow your lead.

The #industrial mode of mass production has created an ugly #civilization. We are ruled by numbers, obsessed by the #economy, and possessed by speed—all enemies of #beauty. A monster is haunting the modern world, the monster of ugly #materialism. Satish Kumar: Elegant Simplicity

It's almost as if, before the Gaza famine was officially recognised, it was a story, as media organisations could generate controversy by hosting Israeli government spokespeople and our own rightwing blowhards, insisting it was all a fabrication. Now that it can no longer be denied ... no story.

YouTube video by Stop The Quarry Expansion - Save Our Trees A Belgian company is planning to bulldoze THIS Devon forest

"A company is preparing to bulldoze the last large mature broadleaf woodland at Kingsteignton, Devon."

Have your say:
saveourtrees.org.uk

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The deliberate and relentless killing of Palestinian journalists is sickening beyond words — and is a desperate attempt to silence the truth about Israel’s ongoing crimes against humanity.

Shame on all those who empowered Israel to murder with impunity.

'...while we are alive we cannot get to a star, any more than when we are dead we can take the train.' Vincent Van Gogh #Art #Letters #Artists

"If we don't save Gaza we would not have saved our international order. Humanity will be buried in Gaza."

The articulate rage of Dr Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, needs to be heard by every Western leader enabling the genocide & starvation in #Gaza.

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The problem isn't just that Water is privatised in England, it's that the politicians are too. #ScottishIndependence 🎙️

A mother in a tent in Gaza clasping her starving child, who appears close to death.

“Just outside Gaza, tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items & fuel sit untouched with humanitarian organisations blocked from accessing or delivering them," write 109 aid agencies today.

Israel is committing Palestinian genocide and it is monstrous.

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The Bovey Tracey #craft fayre in #Devon was magical this year.

That's really nice. I'm trying ink #drawing - this one is a work in progress (the bathing house at Elberry Cove near Brixham). Will take a look at #drypoint

Another trip up #Dartmoor today with my #Nikon FE camera loaded with #Ilford HP5+ black and white film. I do love this beautifully engineered film camera. I think it's a thing of beauty. #Photography

#Photography on #Dartmoor today with my #Nikon FE and #Ilford HP5 film. The weather was nice and I had a flask of coffee with me so happy days.

I also suggest an alternative route, a politics of belonging, in which political power and control of local resources are returned to communities.

It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores...
#Keats, On the Sea.
#poetry

Study of a kingfisher in pencil. #art #drawing

For my money, this has to be one of the best cinemas in the UK. Totnes cinema is unbelievably atmospheric, shows great (often but not always esoteric) films and even has a bar so that you can enjoy a glass of something nice. It's perfect. #cinema #movies #films #Devon #Totnes

Steel, auto, quarrying, mining, shipbuilding; I've seen them all from the inside and my abiding impression is that it's hard, dirty work with long hours for the majority of employees. Moving to automation & robotics will be fascinating.

Franz Marc's Fate of Animals (1913) was about animals being caught up in human wars but today it could just as easily represent the effects of climate change and environmental destruction. The artist was killed in World War 1. #art #ecology #environment #warfare #painting

Been up on #Dartmoor today. It's bleak but beautiful. #photography #landscape

The death of John Keats: ending the myth of 'weakness' Written on the anniversary of his death on the 23rd February 1821

It's the anniversary of Keats' death and the end of my first week on Substack. This post was my contribution to dispelling the myth of Romantic weakness. It's also the anniversary of my book on Keats coming out mid-pandemic 😔 suziegrogan.substack.com/p/the-death-... #poetry #BookSky