2/2 The Charlie Hebdo atrocity 11 years ago this month reminds us that causing offence now comes with lethal consequences.

2026 marks 300 years since the appearance of Gulliver's Travels, a book which has had a double life as children's literature and as grown-up satire of the human race. Who is - or has the courage to be - writing Swiftian satire today? 1/2

Scandi themes here in John O'Groats. Maybe something to do with a certain Danish billionaire?

Hunter's Moon about to be lost behind Scottish cloud. It is the time of Pitlochry's Enchanted Forest and the world and his wife are here.

Ruskin To-Day Brantwood Lecture 2025 createsend.com/t/y-4C179A4FA…

Save Manchester's Hotspur Press Building from Demolition! - Sign the Petition! chng.it/kGBnhGVGGw via @UKChange

Alfred Brendel C’est une douleur sourde et profonde. Une époque qui s’efface… Toute une pensée, une manière rare d’habiter le monde. Je n’ose montrer les photos que nous avons partagées. Sa musique demeure, et son esprit et sa malice rayonnent — cela suffit. Il aimait le chocolat, avec la tendresse d’un enfant. Un jour, il m’a offert la cadence du 23e de Mozart, Écrite de sa propre main. Un geste pur, infiniment précieux. Un chagrin mêlé de gratitude. Car cet héritage, si délicat, si vivant — nous ne devons jamais le laisser s’éteindre, garder la conscience vive des grands qui passent, et doucement s’effacent. Présences rares. Disparitions immenses. Mémoire précieuse. Un Schubert unique, une âme unique.

C.S. Lewis [from the dedication in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]:

A nod to Alan Grieve, who has died, the solicitor who set up and ran the Jerwood Foundation for over forty years, turning it into a ubiquitous force in the arts world. Among many other projects around the country, the foundation helped to fund the Jerwood Centre in Grasmere.

RIP Brian Wilson. Forget the footie, the release of God Only Knows was the key moment of 1966. One of the greatest love songs of all time.

If you are thinking about PG study in the fields of literary, environmental, heritage, and cultural studies, why not come along to our Ambleside open day on Saturday 14 June to find out about our unique MA in Literature, Romanticism & the Lake District📚🍃 tinyurl.com/464texsm

🐝Today, and always, our hearts are with the 22 who lost their lives at the Manchester Arena attack on 22 May 2017, and all who continue to be affected by the tragic events eight years on.

Congratulations to my old firm Addleshaw Goddard @AGinsight for sponsoring yet another gold winner plus RHS Chelsea Small Garden of the Year with the Freedom to Flourish Garden designed by Carey Garden Design

"There's nothing holy about agony, nothing moral about it. There's no sanctity in suffering" Well said @RabbiRomain, it's time for MPs to vote for compassion.

"One of the biggest problems with the world is that fools are always so sure and certain about everything and intelligent people are so full of doubts and uncertainties." - Bertrand Russell

So beautiful ❤️❤️ Canon in D in Czech Republic

As Hamas begins again executing Palestinians in Gaza for protesting — nine killed, others kidnapped and disappeared — the Western pro-Palestine movement remains deafeningly silent. You chant "Free Palestine" while ignoring Palestinians who demand freedom from a regime that tortures and kills them. You cry out against bombs, but say nothing about bullets fired into the heads of unarmed protesters by Hamas. This is not solidarity — it’s moral bankruptcy. If you can't condemn the fascists ruling us, then you're not standing with us — you're standing on top of us, speaking over our dead. If you truly stand with Gaza, then act like it. Protest not only for the end of war, but for the end of tyranny. Raise your voice for the Gazans being executed, kidnapped, tortured, and silenced by Hamas. And if you mean what you say about liberation, then demand what Gaza needs most: Hamas’s surrender and disarmament. Your silence helps them kill. Your voice can help stop it.

Crummock Water #LakeDistrict - Day 4 of 7 posts showcasing its beauty which will be lost forever if United Utilities carries out its plan to reduce the water level by 4.6 feet. Find out more here and sign the petition: change.org/p/stop-united-uti…………Please share to raise awareness