In "Soft: A Brief History of Sentimentality", Ferdinand Mount draws on literature and history to reclaim the power of emotion in an age of irony, writes Hannah Rose Woods.
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Using my free will on Monday night dinner for one and a glass of 1990 Rivesaltes for pudding
Would like him to have to personally explain this deranged nostalgia for good old-fashioned British football hooliganism to a group of elderly Conservative voters
I genuinely don’t know how to deal with the constant drip drip effect of feeling like the world has gone stark raving mad. It’s like water torture.
“Copyright growing pains” is one hell of a euphemism for the biggest IP theft in history
This is dreadful news
Oh this looks so good
Screenshot from New Yorker interview by Isaac Chotiner with Cass Sunstein
when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
The idea of inheriting tremendous wealth
AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.
When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
Transcend your enslavement to the passions and live according to the dictate of reason alone with this one simple trick
Wikipedia is what the internet was meant to be and one of the few online places that hasn’t got worse. It’s a miracle
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich."
A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
Morning coffee
Watering my parents’ greenhouse while they’re on holiday, and it’s just disproportionately nice that their tomato plant has grown a sleeping cat
O to meet a nice man in a jumper eating a teacake in a National Trust cafe
I hate this so much
I also get why holding ministers to higher standards than the previous government is a good look but it would help if the hair-shirtist approach was matched with an ambitious political project because otherwise it just looks like another version of “the beatings will continue until morale improves”.
Honey, weve all been there.
Ought to have mentally prepared myself that I’d be unlocking the cathedral to this
When I was at Anglia TV about 25 yrs ago, a girl in our office sent out a team email that said, “It’s been a crap Monday, who wants to come to my flat for a smoke?” Sadly she sent it to everyone in ITV. Melvyn was one of the first to reply with “That sounds lovely but sadly I’m filming in Newcastle”
Not to brag but I can double that
Architect seems confident that nave and transept will hold up with repairs — let’s hope!
I was there with the cathedral architect, so am not lacking for roof advice
I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.
