The one thing I've taken from the reaction of deaths of Dolly Parton and Patrick Stewart is how much love there is towards people who represent goodness, and how much meaning they bring to people's lives, shaping the idea of the world they want to live in, giving them ideals to strive for.

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Such awful news. I was lucky to interview Patrick Stewart three times. The first in 1995, the second time was this about Picard. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Not a single news outlet has reviewed its coverage of Jason Arday, for accuracy or proportionality. Zero attempt to conduct any inquiry into the media’s role in his death. Instead, the industry has moved into self-congratulatory mode. This isn’t just tone deaf, it betrays a systemic failure

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Absolutely fantastic news: the @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social have hit their £30m fundraising target to buy the vast Rothbury Estate in Northumberland. A former grouse moor owned by the Duke of Northumberland’s heir, it will now be rewilded. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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This was Sir Patrick Stewart talking about it to me on BBC Front Row. A lost world in which working class boy from a mining village could join one of many am dram clubs win a scholarship to drama school with backing from his council www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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