It tells me people need and want moral reference points, that they provide a shared moral imagination, and that there's a greater appetite for goodness than our public discourse suggests.

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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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Can’t help feeling that humanity is pumping an almost unimaginable quantity of resources into making machines “smarter” and how we’ve failed to come remotely close to investing in our fellow humans in this way - imagine the knowledge and art we could have if all humans were allowed to fully flourish

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Author Sally Rooney can't sell her books in the UK, academic Andreas Malm can't enter the UK, but there's nary a peep over Dame Claire Fox's prominent conference, Battle of Ideas, attended by many MPs, with a single bookstall from Oldspeak, a bookshop that almost exclusively sells fascist propaganda

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You'd never imagine from this that there are opposing views on how much we should spend on welfare. The need for cuts is simply presented as a given. This is as bad as the BBC's "maxed-out credit card" nonsense of a few years ago. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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