70 years ago, Peter Fryer was sent by the Communist Party newspaper to cover what its editors called a "counter-revolution" in Hungary. He witnessed a revolution, and wrote the truth about it. His reports were censored and suppressed. peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/10/19/f...

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Liverpool fans will see familiar pattern in French policing. Police, treating fans as a problem, used tear gas and violence against them, and then left them unprotected when they were attacked by criminals after the match. And French ministers lied and lied until the weight of evidence was too much

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It’s my birthday today and I have been to look at a tiger and eaten a lot of cake. Now I am drinking whisky and shortly I will be eating a very large steak. 10/10.

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I had not realised that Michel Foucault and Winnie-the-Pooh were practically the same age: Winnie-the-Pooh was first published by Methuen on 14 October 1926, and Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers on the following day.

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New from me: two cheers for audio content, which feels weirdly lacking from the 'literacy crisis'/'screens' freak-out substack.com/home/post/p-...

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