I’ve been thinking about the way people get radicalised recently, online but also in dinner parties and professional networks and friendship groups, and I find myself recalling this bit in Screwtape, wh I think is relevant whether you’re Xtian or not. The people you hang out with affect who you are.

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With Agnès Varda's 'Cleo from 5 to 7' on BBC Four tonight, and Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal' next Saturday, it's almost like the golden days of BBC2's 'World Cinema' have returned. Bravo, BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Fuck you I’m getting this game. It’s not nearly as problematic as the fascist French Catholics who use her as a symbol. Be mad about that. Maybe in the game she gets super powers. Or becomes a very cool vampire. And a cape.

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Ha, four hours of even Rowan would be a Bit Much

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This is great - don’t let the long run time put you off, the actual lecture is about half an hour followed by ten minutes or so of (good, substantive) questions. I’m going to be thinking about his points about the way in which the Risen Body is both undefended and ungraspable for a long time.

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