Simon Lewis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

Anti-intellectualism has become a badge of honour on the far right. We have reached the point where reading literature for pleasure is being "intellectual ".

For me it would have to be The Hit though Priscilla is a very close second. RIP Terence Stamp.

Agreed. In The Overstory Richard Powers suggests that trees should be given legal personality. Seems eminently sensible to me.

As a surgeon in Gaza, I witnessed hell visited on children. It shames me that Britain played a part in it | Nizam Mamode I saw them killed by sniper fire and drones. Why doesn’t Labour condemn it? Why do arms keep flowing in Israel’s direction? asks retired professor of transplant surgery Nizam Mamode

"I operated on seven-year-old Amer, who had been shot by one of the drones that descend immediately after a bombing to pick off those who are running away, all civilians."

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Dunstanburgh Castle looking, as always, like a film set rather than a real castle.

Wow. Good to know!

Alnmouth, evening, September

That's a good one. Here's mine. A bit of a loner but still thriving.

Irony: anything to do with irons