Bennie Kara

Autumn in Paris ❤️

Actual footage of one of the Louvre Heist thieves on arrest.

Condolences Nuzhat xx

I still missed it.

Ahem. Uber. Just because it’s raining in London doesn’t mean you should be charging these prices for this distance.

Update. Changed my ticket time at considerable cost as I wasn’t gonna make it because my entire city is under construction. Got back to station to find original train was delayed enough for me to have made it on.

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Gah the perimenopause got me. Went to train station all dressed up for an event and a night in London. Was all set. Looked down. No suitcase. Currently on a comedy taxi journey trying to get home to get said bag.

It is Kedleston! They do a Diwali celebration every year.

I feel like there’s a movie in this.

Happy Diwali. May the light guide you home.

I am aware.

Support for Reform UK increasing among British Indians, poll shows Exclusive: Survey finds 13% of British Indians back Nigel Farage’s party compared with only 4% at last election

I would have hoped support for Reform amongst Hindus would not be possible but then I remember how conservative and yes, nationalistic, Hindus have become. It’s upsetting. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Love this

Today I’m speaking at the Anti Racist Cumbria Summit. There are so many people here - I can’t wait to present later on behalf of Belonging Effect.

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I chose the wrong profession to become a bajillionaire. I should have gone into school photography.

Thanks for sharing Jill!

New Substack on teaching Rabindranath Tagore in English - have a read, then go and read some Tagore! open.substack.com/pub/bennieka...

Sounds bloody awful. Sorry to hear this, Sam.

I know. None of us had water bottles in school, Thatcher stole our milk and we had to do PE in our pants and vest if we forgot our kit.

“Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.” 🌊
― Hannah Arendt, author of The Origins of Totalitarianism

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

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Nearly me in Aldi doing the weekly shop, listening to Opalite.

Keep a running record. If he continues, you might need it to take action.

Ugh Ben you’re being far more gracious than I would have. I don’t understand people who appoint themselves ambassadors for some imagined public feeling. Your daughter has the right to enjoy art in her own way. Her body should not be policed by anybody.

My rip off degree in English and European Literature made an English teacher for 20 years. Short sighted from the Tories, but that’s not a surprise.

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

Over 18k children. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

I was thinking poetic dandy…

Accurate.

That’s exactly the kind of academia I’m here for.