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Photos: This may be the most inspirational night school on Earth

Many thousands of boys and men in Lesotho take up the vital profession of herding but have to give up their education. A small network of schools on a shoestring budget is teaching them the ABCs.

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OCCULTURE AS METHOD - Dark Arts Research Kollective

Occulture as Method Symposium September 10-11, 2026 Manchester Metropolitan University / SODA (location) Event booking link / Symposium Programme PDF link Thursday 10th September Programme: 0900 / Reg...

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During the 2nd World War, various artists found themselves in a safe house in Marseilles, waiting for visas so they could escape the Nazis. André Breton & fellow surrealists like Max Ernst passed the time by designing a deck of playing cards, Le Jeu de Marseille, reimagined on Communist lines.

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World’s oldest tortoise caught in viral crypto death scam www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

World’s oldest tortoise caught in viral crypto death scam

Fake X account posing as his vet sparked global false reports of Jonathan’s death while soliciting crypto donations

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John Keane - 'Peace Giant' (1989). Army observation tower in South Armagh (National Army Museum, London)

1825: I had a very odd dream last night & I take it as an ill omen for I dont expect that the book will meet a better fate - I thought I had one of the proofs of the new poems from London & after looking at it awhile it shrank thro my hands like sand & crumbled into dust - the birds were singing...

'There’s a short story by Scott Alexander called “The Whispering Earring,” in which he describes a mystical piece of jewelry. The whispering earring speaks to you. Its advice always begins with the words “Better for you if you . . . ,” and its advice is never wrong' 1/3 harpers.org/archive/2026...

Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss

Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

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Imagine being like this. Maybe we actually were all once like this. Be more like this guy!

I’m doing some short & sweet online poetry workshops over the coming weeks, first ones are this Friday. Would be lovely to have your company if anyone would like to join! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poems-that...

Poems that make things happen

Online poetry workshops designed to make you think, bring you joy, make you a better reader and writer AND fit in with your busy schedule.

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Who would play Nick Belsey in a TV adaptation?

This is a delightful listen, if your ears have a few minutes spare.

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For those who like audio, & short stories, 3 of mine are repeated this week - mon/tues/wed - they are linked & tx goes A, Andria, B, Boris, C Chiara - on Radio 4 Extra - today, 15.45 I GOT THE DOG www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

'A guide told the Guardian he had spotted a “strange” gathering outside the David Hume mausoleum on 16 January at 10pm when the cemetery gates were locked. He claimed four men in long white robes were kneeling by the mausoleum and lighting candles.' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Edinburgh tomb of philosopher David Hume vandalised with ‘satanic’ symbols

Tour guide reports drawing of naked woman pointing knife at baby and coded writing at Old Calton burial ground

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Forgive me for tootling a small trumpet - stuff from the past, reappearing on your radio ...

Susie M@wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 9mo ago

a mole just told me one of my short story trilogies, I GOT THE DOG, is being repeated in early February - Mon 2nd, Tues 3rd, Wed 4th - 15:45 on Radio4X - readers - Rebecca Front, John McGlynn, Vicki Pepperdine - woof-woof!! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Kim Jong-un inspected parts of the future monument and museum dedicated to the memory of DPRK soldiers who died fighting against Ukraine.

Excited to be chatting all things espionage and fiction with bestselling former CIA analyst David McCloskey later this month - Waterstones Deansgate, Manchester, January 28 - focussing on his new novel THE PERSIAN - www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

An evening with David McCloskey | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An evening with David McCloskey today.

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I'm enjoying this 'pubs that changed me' series in @theguardian.com Feels a good angle on life and lives www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The pub that changed me: ‘We would flirt and mingle with the wild children of the wealthy’

To me and my friends from a Battersea council estate, the Dome seemed the very height of Thatcherite hedonism – and seeing ‘successful’ people up close was an eye-opener

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When I was a teenager out and about in central London there used to be a man selling poems in the middle of Hungerford Bridge. They were in coloured envelopes, laid out on a blanket. Always bought some, seemed too magical not to. Anyway, a few days ago I came across him by Tate Modern (1/2)

Slide from a lecture on post-colonialism. It's never less than mind-boggling

Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."

Want to understand what actually went wrong at the BBC? Read Daniel Trilling’s in-depth report in the corporations’s spectacular failure over the war in Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/ins...

Exciting opportunity for writers from working-class backgrounds

OU English and Creative Writing@ouliterature.bsky.social · last yr.

We are delighted to be supporting the W&A Working-Class Writers' Prize 2025 with @writersandartists.bsky.social @ruppin.bsky.social, @societyofauthors.bsky.social and @openuniversity.bsky.social Submissions open on 1st November 2025. www.writersandartists.co.uk/about-wa-wor... PLEASE SHARE

I got the idea for The Shame Archive when a friend started telling me about Epstein's potential links to intelligence services. The novel's gone down to 99p on Kindle this month. www.amazon.co.uk/Shame-Archiv...

Leonora Carrington, British-Mexican (1917-2011), The Saints of Hampstead Heath, 1997, oil and gold leaf on canvasboard, 45.7 x 35.6 cm, private collection