Looking forward to talking Essex, myth, storytelling and, since we're in the Hopkins Zone, witches, with the brilliant @akblakemore tomorrow (Sat) at Manningtree Arts' Big Day Out, at 2pm. Free entry with an RSVP, details and rest of schedule here: https://t.co/R5Argof1az
Looking forward to talking Essex, myth, storytelling and, since we're in the Hopkins Zone, witches, with the brilliant @akblakemore tomorrow (Sat) at Manningtree Arts' Big Day Out, at 2pm. Free entry with an RSVP, details and rest of schedule here: https://t.co/R5Argof1az
“I have never… seen a place… so bombarded for such a long time with such a trapped population without any escape. People are traumatized beyond belief.” Jan @NRC_Egeland of @NRC_Norway is in Gaza for the first time since Oct 7. “I’m pretty shaken, actually, from what I saw.”
This was a really sad story to report. How the education of Ukrainian school children is being hurt by the war.
Just under a million Ukrainian children are studying remotely and another million are doing a mixture of in-person and online classes because of air raid alarms.
Watching mealy mouthed, lost, pathetic Tory politicians pandering to extremists by being weather vanes instead of being signposts and leading from the front is always a good reason to post this take down of Enoch Powell by the great late Jonathan Miller.
A lovely surprise of a review of TIOE by a Harlow-born Essex boy living in Basque country:
'This is a great and unexpectedly moving read which I insistently recommend to anyone wishing to learn, or perhaps just think, more about Essex...'
Out in paperback today, #TheInventionOfEssex by @timburrows is the secret history of England's most notorious county.
'Exceptionally well-written and intelligent' Simon Heffer, Spectator
Shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Award 2023
https://t.co/bqbX20yNdb
Great summation, this: 'Gaza has become the expression of a legitimacy crisis for an Anglo-American political class who preside over already fragile systems that deliver less and less to their populations, and whose main offering is that the alternative is worse.'
‘If liberalism shows no ability or desire to protect civilian life, regional security and even its own electoral prospects, then its mission-defining claims of principle and competence collapse.’ https://t.co/wLwrKA6v5z
In this photograph Chris Evans and Laurence Fox have very strong 'German couple who have just checked into an AirB&B in Twickenham because they are going to see Depeche Mode but are 'first looking to have some of the famous British fish and chips!'' energy.