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I asked Co-Pilot to write a match report on Emma Raducanu’s Wimbledon defeat in the style of existentialist French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. It knocked this up in under 5 seconds: Wimbledon, Centre Court — July 4, 2025 By Jean-Paul Sartre (as imagined) --- Raducanu vs. Sabalenka: A...

Am a retired teacher with severe tinnitus. Had it for nearly 20 years and manage it pretty well most of the time but it can still bother me. Having read your post, I am completely on your side. This should not have happened. The initial point of contact would be your grandson's form tutor or...

I'm not entirely comfortable with some of the past and present actions of the IDF too. Here are some of them that I've read about: ‘We go to the Barbir Hospital…Robert [Fisk] has known Dr Amal Shamma since the Israeli invasion, when she showed him babies killed by Israeli phosphorus shells...

Can someone explain how Bob Vylan’s outburst was antisemitic? It was directed at the IDF not Jews as a race. And as far as I am aware, that force includes Druze, Bedouin Arab, Christian Arab, and non-Bedouin Muslim Arab recruits. The only thing I can think of is that saying ‘Death to the IDF’...

Still the best festival I ever went to:

Thanks for replying. I have only been at the sharp end of things once with a relative so I only know about all this from books, not personal experience.

In the most recent edition of his well-known textbook Practical Ethics, the philosopher Peter Singer questions the effectiveness of palliative care: ‘…some will reply that improved care for the terminally ill has eliminated pain and made voluntary euthanasia unnecessary. But it is not only...

Many excellent points there. Great post.

From the article: ‘Let’s set aside the fact that Mohammad married Aisha when she was six years old, and consummated the marriage when she was nine years old according to Islamic scripture. Let’s also set aside the fact that as a matter of historical record Islam did indeed spread by the sword.’...

It will be interesting to compare Baroness Casey’s review and the forthcoming inquiry to the findings of the one that was published in 2020. Here are some comments about this previous meta-analysis (if that is the correct descriptive term) by Peter Oborne taken from his book The Fate of Abraham...

Woody words. Can’t stand those awful tinny words, though.

https://newsthump.com/2025/06/01/laurence-fox-regenerates-into-even-more-embittered-divorcee/

Nelson-Joyce is also a big fan of the Dippers. I can understand that for many that would more than negate his merits as an actor.

Seconded. Narcos and Narcos Mexico are both superb. This City Is Ours was very enjoyable, though. All the cast were very good, especially James Nelson-Joyce, who comes across like a scouse version of Burt Lancaster in it.

This speech from a few years ago by the extraordinary Iranian movie director Asghar Farhadi is well worth a quick watch in the light of the short-fingered vulgarian’s latest tariff pronouncement...

‘His [Shakespeare’s] plays probe the psychological mechanisms that lead a nation to abandon its ideals, and even its self-interest. Why would anyone, he asked himself, be drawn to a leader manifestly unsuited to govern, someone dangerously impulsive or viciously conniving or indifferent to the...

‘‘The desire to be led by a strong personality in a crisis, the craving for our existence to have some kind of purpose, the quasi worship of heroes & celebrities, the longing for salvation and redemption: none of this has changed since the death of Hitler in 1945.’ Laurence Rees - The Dark...