Last known of photo of Pamir, one of the last commercial cargo sailing ships, before sinking off the Azores in 1957 in Hurricane Carrie .
Photographer unknown
Via Reddit
"I believe that 99 percent of nonfiction authors should not be writing books"
I spend a *lot* of my time reading but suspect this is true. Books are an incredibly inefficient way of getting information across...
https://t.co/depbVgr45g
You join me in a busy magistrates court, waiting for a Met Police officer to appear on rape charges.
Most people won't set foot in a courtroom like this. It's chaotic at times, the cases are varied, and justice is served.
Here's what I'm listening to:
More than one in five girls aged 16 were in contact with NHS mental health services (including learning disabilities and autism services) in 2021-22. This is double the rate of the rate just four years earlier.
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Many of today's biggest problems feel inherently relational or experiential - less technocratic, more human. So do we need a new way to govern?
A new post: https://t.co/eSeeBZu9jo
The biggest contemporary threat to the Rule of Law is the effective exclusion of the poor through restricting legal aid, court and tribunal fees, and so forth. Elsewhere I’ve called this “deregulation by stealth”. Shiny new rights aren’t worth tuppence without enforcement
"A finite game is played to win; there are clear victors and losers. An infinite game is played to keep playing" <-- this is about the flattening effect, hard to describe, of quantification in modern life https://t.co/fL1G6I2NQx