Children’s commissioner declares a ‘state of emergency’. Middlesbrough and Sunderland listed as among the most challenging places in the country for a child to grow up.

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Somewhere in it is a lovely bit of context for Gerard de Nerval famously walking his lobster on a leash. All the Parisian haut-bourgeoisie were walking their tortoises in the arcades, so Nerval was showing off: A mere tortoise? How vulgar!

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So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

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Numéro spécial Georges Perec 🖍️ Par Coco

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Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.

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