Rings true. Some time after leaving SA towards the end the apartheid, my partner & I were reminiscing. Do you remember x, they were so f-ed up? Do you remember y, they were so f-ed up. We realised that living in a police state had f-ed up everybody we knew - not just our activist friends, everyone.
Leave it switched off for a while to make sure power cycling is effective.
... deserve it most. Incandescent and incoherent with rage and grief.
... the brown people they don't consider human, nor their 'own people' about who they don't give a flying f*ck and certainly not you or me. Sick also of people saying we'll see this or that person in the Hague when all the evidence of decades points to this not happening to almost all the people /2
I am so tired of seeing these acts framed as political choices, with the consequences debated in the context of traditional politics and economics. So few people seem willing to say this is genocide and planetary destruction at the behest of evil people who don't give a shit about anybody, not /1
Evil. Absolute, unadulterated evil. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
ALL Women must stand together on International Women's Day Graphic image of women's outlines in different colours like watercolour.
On International Women’s Day, we reflect on the importance of solidarity between women🩷
For over a decade, the conversation around trans rights has been used to divide women who would otherwise stand together. This weakens our ability to challenge the real sources of inequality, misogyny & violence
If Timothee Chalamet wants to make being a reverse-snob part of his deal, whatever. Be a child, you know?
But at a time when arts funding and support are so imperiled, it would be nice not to lead with your contempt for wide swaths of the arts during your campaign to have your own art recognized.
unembarrassed enthusiasm about learning new things is genuinely the best way to live
I no particular order - and not exhaustive - really hard to choose
Pelléas et Mélisande
Bluebeard's Castle
Wozzeck
Turn of the Screw
Makropulos Affair
Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Rake's Progress
Rosenkavalier
The Nose
L'enfant et les sortilèges
if you think the greatest threat to effeminate gay boys is the trans movement and not the cis straight men who overwhelmingly exclude and brutalize them then you should walk into the ocean immediately
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Not a new insight, but it's truly something to see how many Westerners have internalised that the people we are supposedly freeing through our imperial warfare don't have to be alive to be free.
So much of this discourse today seems to be 'when you make an effort to communicate with people to explain why you have good things for them to vote for, that is somehow deeply unfair to those of us who feel entitled to said votes', and, lads, I have some news for you about democracy.
Labour partisans will try to say it’s a meaningless by-election midway through the government’s term. They’d be wrong. The Greens have now told the voting public that a vote for them is not wasted and they can win in a safe Labour seat.
We went for my older daughter's birthday last year. She is also my partner in crime where Discovery is concerned :)
I loved it. I think it's a great piece of writing and the performances were phenomenal. But I know some people who did not rate it at all.
Ncuti Gatwa as Kit Marlowe in Born with Teeth for the RSC
Ah OK - seen a few of your other posts now so I know what you’re talking about. Was momentarily a little confused - this was the last Marlowe I saw
Oh yes!
A loaf of white bread filled with curry: a South African dish originating from Durban Indians
Let me introduce you to bunny chow
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Dr Beth Upton having to leave the NHS is a shame on the country.
My daughter's take on the winter Olympics is that this is sport as invented by toddlers. See how I jump! Look at me put my leg in the air! See me spin - I twizzle!
This is my goofy stance fits right in.
I don't know how to function in a world that is so continuously cruel.
Where so many will celebrate this pointless, pointless harm. This will devastate a tiny minority. It will benefit no-one.
So many across our country will comply with this violence. So many others will stand silent.
"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification.
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
it’s exciting for people who care about Westminster chess, that they’ll publish the documents about how Mandelson got appointed, but for people who care about the UK, id like them to publish the full details of the deals he negotiated with the US tech & pharma interests on (supposedly) our behalf
It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵
So hoping the Greens take Gorton and Denton. That would stop the "I'd like to vote Green but they don't stand a chance" people and make them actually think for a moment.
Yes, waiting on a grant application for Hidden Star and starting new things in the meantime. The longer days do feel as if they are sparking new beginnings.
And to you, Kendra.
