Simon Wroe

The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le... Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth

Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with their story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. The Salt Path became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film.

But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth.

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A poster for The Godfather. Marlon Brando, as Don Corleone, holds a humungous cat in his lap. The cat is bigger than he is (in the film, it's a tiny kitten) but looks contented enough. The frame is strewn with fish bones. At the bottom of the frame is a severed horse's head and a bloodied axe.

Probably my favourite Ghanaian film poster.

Amazing correction in the Telegraph.

Wonderful read

"The moral of Niemöller’s poem, then, isn’t really 'speak up even if you aren’t in danger.' It’s 'speak up, even when the Nazis threaten marginalized groups that you yourself despise.' Fascists do take advantage of indifference and apathy to some degree. But they also build on widespread prejudice."

Trump now worse than a global killer disease, not yet as bad as Hitler's tanks rolling into France and the Low Countries. More as we get it.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

David Lynch mesmerised filmgoers with mystery, beauty and horror America’s strangest and most surreal film-maker died on January 16th, aged 78

My mother wrote a lovely obit of David Lynch in this week’s Economist
www.economist.com/obituary/202...

Flowers for Lynch at Bobs Big Boy.

left: Nicolas Cage with long black hair and a moustache in a black top right: Spinoza with long black hair and a moustache in a black top

a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers

1. Spinoza

ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down Training tests with ChatGPT o1 and other high-end AI models showed they might try to save themselves if they think they're in danger.

Er..so, there’s this. Should we be concerned? bgr.com/tech/chatgpt...

The Booker Prize-nominated books that were rejected by publishers | The Booker Prizes John Self explores some of the most famous titles that were initially turned down by publishers, and speaks to editors, authors and agents about why those books struggled to secure a deal

Which Booker novel was rejected because some people at the publishing house didn't like the characters?

What winner chose his publisher "I had not many other options, frankly"?

I had great fun writing this piece about rejected Booker books:

thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

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Illustration of a tiger, wearing a snazzy red jacket, smoking a pipe

Instead of “once upon a time,” Korean folk and fairy tales often begin with 호랑이 담배 피우던 시절에. It means “back when tigers smoked (pipes)”

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