Home Office @ukhomeoffice Follow Illegal migrants living in hotels have been banned from using taxpayer-funded taxis for medical appointments. Under new rules, taxi use for medical journeys will be restricted to individuals with physical disabilities and serious or chronic illnesses. ... TP + ILLEGAL MIGRANTS BANNED FROM USING TAXIS FOR MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS

Home Offi... @ukhomeoffi... • Feb 6 The largest number of illegal migrants and foreign criminals have been removed or deported off British soil in a decade. - NEARLY - 60000 ILLEGAL MIGRANTS CRIMINALS REMOVED OR DEPORTED

Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.

lmao learn to closeread

The effect on her criticism of a life-long reaction against the smallness, pretentiousness and intentional muddle she associated with the Boston Irish Catholic milieu of her girlhood is greatly underrated.

Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center

Screenshot of a TikTok video with error message at top saying “your video is under review and can’t be shared right now.”

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.

Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.

Well, here’s a link:

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The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
We cannot cage the minute
Within its nets of gold,
When all is told
We cannot beg for pardon.

from Louis MacNeice, "The Sunlight on the Garden"

A student of letters is so much in the habit of striding through the centuries from one pinnacle of accomplishment to the next that be forgets all the hubbub that once surged round the base; how Keats had a neighbour and his neighbour had a family—the rings widen infinitely.

—Virginia Woolf

The critic cornered The day the late John Carey went too far

The day the late John Carey went too far.
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It was easier for the French to abolish feudalism and the monarchy than to make the price of bread low and stable.

One small thing I hope comes out of this nightmare is at least renaming the Department of Homeland Security. “Homeland” is not a word Americans use. It sounds like a translation from Heimatsicherheitsabteilung.

This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality

“You have to leave and you can never come back” — absolutely life-affirming words to say when you have to spend all day being professionally friendly and helpful.

Uh glaring omission

Have been interested in the rising use of “neighbor” as the relation of solidarity identified by anti-ICE protests. Your neighbors may be very different from you, but they’re made familiar—made yours—by a kind of ordinary proximity.

Clooney only did ads outside the US for this reason. He made millions as the spokesperson for Nespresso everywhere besides America and, anecdotally, I have heard a French person refer to a Nespresso machine as “Clooney.” Anway, he became a French citizen last month.

Well played, Transport for London

Yet if I should get married and it's Connecticut and snow and she gives birth to a child and I am sleepless, worn, up for nights, head bowed against a quiet window, the past behind me, finding myself in the most common of situations a trembling man knowledged with responsibility not twig- smear nor Roman coin soup - O what would that be like! Surely I'd give it for a nipple a rubber Tacitus For a rattle a bag of broken Bach records Tack Della Francesca all over its crib Sew the Greek alphabet on its bib And build for its playpen a roofless Parthenon - Gregory Corso (from “Marriage”)

Foreword 'Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male,' such were the two titles under which the writer of the present note received the strange pages it preambulates. 'Humbert Humbert, their author, had died in legal captivity, of coronary thrombosis, on November 16, 1952, a few days before his trial was scheduled to start. His lawyer, my good friend and relation, Clarence Choate Clark, Esq., now of the District of Columbia bar, in asking me to edit the manuscript, based his request on a clause in his client's will which empowered my eminent cousin to use his discretion in all matters pertaining to the preparation of 'Lolita' for print. Mr. Clark's decision may have been influenced by the fact that the editor of his choice had just been awarded the Poling Prize for a modest work ('Do the Senses make Sense?') wherein certain morbid states and perversions had been discussed.

The cover of Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas depicting a piece of soap by a drain

I can’t be the only dad in this trampoline park hiding in the corner reading Henry James

I am once again asking if people think knowledge of the world just deliquesces onto the internet like dew

I agree this is probably right (Occam's razor being applied), but its placement is evidently so suggestive of other images and scenarios -- and, as William Empson said, the English prepositions exist in several dimensions...

This pleasant tale is like a little copse: The honyed lines do freshly interlace To keep the Reader in so sweet a place, So that he here and there full-hearted stops;

I have the bigger one that looks more like an old-fashioned mountaineering pack and it is, indeed, indestructible

these people are fraudsters selling snake oil and after their reforms crash and burn they'll be on to the next institution to do the same song and dance

the president is not an elected sovereign. he does not speak for the people or embody their will, he merely represents them. if he wants to change the constitution, let him make his case.

the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.

hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity

this is quite the detail

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