Alexei Navalny died one year ago today. What gave him the courage to oppose tyranny? It's moving to see in the closing lines of his remarkable memoir just how crucial and sustaining his Christian faith was...

So sad to see JG Windows closed - it was a much loved music shop in Newcastle #parableofourtimes

Norman Cornish, Crucifixion (1960). For Cornish the telegraph pole represents technological progress, the crucifixion its human cost. Excellent exhibition @thebowesmuseum.bsky.social on Cornish and Lowry

UK’s longest-serving MPs issue joint plea for Commons to reject assisted dying bill Diane Abbott and the Conservative Sir Edward Leigh, mother and father of the House, say law has been rushed

Assisted dying - the penny is beginning to drop
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Bread & Circuses One is obliged to hope for wise and prudent governance from the next administration, but that’s not why people voted for Trump.

Bill Cavanaugh, brilliant as always

www.commonwealmagazine.org/bread-circus...