Bizarre. I haven't read a fiction book in 6 months (and that was Ulysses). I've probably read less than 10 fiction books in the last 5 years.
Are we falling out of love with nonfiction? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Fantastic, nine! 👇
What links Joni Mitchell, Ian Dury and Frida Kahlo? The Saturday quiz
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH
Marx's Grundrisse (and David Harvey's Companion).
"Reform blames scrounging migrants. The Greens blame the rich" - to the Economist those two points are equally bad
And what does the Economist offer to boost growth? Failed 'centrism' - welfare cuts and planning deregulation
It is precisely this failing 'centrism' is fuelling the rise of both
Very impressed with quick international dispatch and delivery by imosver.com
The cover of the book "La Guerra de la Independencia en la Sierra de Huelva" by María Teresa Menguiano Romero.
I have spent five years learning Spanish to be able to read this book, and hunted high and low for a copy.
Very happy to now actually have it in my hand.
#BookSky 📚 💙
Vital piece by @chakrabortty.bsky.social
"Starmer could have made the centrepiece of his manifesto living longer, healthier and better lives... He didn’t do that. His team talked about growth being the centre of everything... They went for wealth not health."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
"To read the Grundrisse as the record of a mind working is to become aware that Marx had to wage a battle against classical political economy and at the same time forge his armaments;"
#BookSky 📚 💙
Colorized version of AS08-13-2329, the first ever photo of Earth rising from behind another celestial body. AS08-14-2383 was used for the color data.
Earthrise - Apollo 8 - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/HVwTUe
As schools across the country celebrate World Book Day, our study last year found that 40% of Britons hadn't read a single book in the past 12 months - the median Briton had read 3 books in the preceding year
yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
I found out that I have 10 gears on my bike, its on 7th gear, at the moment. Yesterday we went to get coco pops, and the lady said to come today. We went today and the man said to come back in the afternoon. I am missing you.
Greens now in second place ahead of Labour for the first time in a new YouGov poll, and just two points behind Reform.
Lowest ever rating for Keir Starmer's party
REF: 23% (-1)
GRN 21% (+4)
LAB 16%(-2)
CON 16%(-2)
LDEM 14%(nc)
Middling. Six 👇
What links Beyoncé and Jay-Z with Georgie Fame? The Saturday quiz
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps
Unbelievably positive framing of the attacks on Iran by #BBCLauraK to close the show. Kudos to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for having a go at challenging the idea that bombing a country and assassinating their leader while you're in the middle of negotiating with them isn't a smooth path to democracy.
It must suck to spend your life getting wealthy and famous, only to realize too late that the true secret to happiness is studying old Greek philosophers and eating huge pots of cheese.
Someone needs to tell this to #BBCLauraK who seems to think this is the prelude to a democratic Iran.
"On the occasion of Labour's 126th birthday, Starmer's gift to the party has been a new historic low. One that, on its current trajectory, could be the first of many."
Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.
The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost
The first version applies when you lose to a party of the right; the second version when you lose to a party of the left.
Especially if you're Labour.
Sharp political analysis it is not.
Just when you thought #BBCLauraK couldn't get any worse. This is such terrible framing and says literally nothing of use about the implications of the Gorton & Denton result.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fair enough, but it's shorthand for some pretty obnoxious immigration policies which are framed in Reform-adjacent language.
The point I'm making is that you /can/ draw an equivalence between Labour and Reform in a way you /can't/ for the Greens.
ie. That the OP was wrong.
"Island of strangers".
I genuinely can't abide the assumption that all working class people are cruel racists.
"On the occasion of Labour's 126th birthday, Starmer's gift to the party has been a new historic low. One that, on its current trajectory, could be the first of many."
"The beatings will continue until morale improves".
