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This cake my Mum got me for publication day is so incredible it could be on an episode of Is It Cake?

American Lysenkoism. If the US rejects the knowledge and expertise of its doctors and scientists, let them come here.

The British government could be doing this too

Mrs Gale, the wonderful Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale in The Avengers. #TheAvengers #HonorBlackman #CathyGale

This morning, as part of Easter: A seasonal journey on BBC Radio 3, Tom Service is live from the island of Iona.

One of the things I like best about BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema is that it’s not a simple sequence show, it always has space for ideas, stories, a thesis. Today - great music by great composers that got JUNKED. Rejects & replacements at 4pm & on BBC Sounds. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

How free speech works in the “culture of dissent” Jay Bhattacharya is nurturing over at NIH

Discount for space lizards

Pope nailing it rn, as it were

Somehow the frailty of the Pope makes his message stronger

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964.)

Just found this historical curiosity at the back of a drawer. Interesting how relatively expensive hardbacks were more than 30 years ago, before the abolition of the Net Book Agreement. No sales online or in supermarkets, no discounts…

Lived on this quad for a year, writing thoughts about Wilkie Collins on a computer so basic its floppy disks were actually floppy.

The Economist resurrects a piece I wrote in 2021

If the Pope knew that he was risking death by delivering his Easter message in person yesterday, that feels like another example of his wisdom.

For anyone worrying whether a papal funeral could happen during the Easter octave (I’m sure it was on everyone’s minds), apparently it can as the Mon-Sat are classed as solemnities, but not solemnities of obligation, meaning funeral masses can take place.

"Have you watched LUX yet?"

It’s already begun ⁦David Aaronovitch⁩ substack. How MAGA wants to choose the next Pope …

I think I agree with John Mappin's definition of sanity