“Everyone on this stage is committed to a future of net-zero income-tax payments.” Source link Read more »
Bob and Ed met at a San Francisco streetcar stop in 1970. The two men were in their early twenties. They had each come from watching the same film that evening, Andy... Read more »
It all started with Brambly Hedge and those exquisite drawings of Mrs Apple’s kitchen at Crabtree Cottage: her shelves overflowing with homemade jams, woven baskets heaped with currants and rosehips, drying herbs... Read more »
“Sexual pleasure is a gift from God” but Catholics must avoid pornography, Pope Francis has said. The pontiff made the remarks during a catechesis devoted to the “vice of lust” at his... Read more »
“Don’t worry—this stretch of extreme cold means there’s an unseasonably warm day ahead.” Source link Read more »
“Citizen Darfour went to the House of Commons and presented a brief intended to destroy our institutions and upset the state …”—Le Télégraphe, gazette officielle extraordinaire, 1 September 1822 It is... Read more »
Novelist Chinua Achebe, hailed as the father of African literature, when speaking once of the medium’s complicity in colonialism said: “Literature is not a luxury for us. It is a life and... Read more »