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‘Conference was the moment that the long-germinating Labour Together Project would cap its years of misdirection and political subterfuge with a victory that would secure its ultimate aim: to insulate the party’s right-leaning bureaucracy, MPs, and leadership - in short, its managerial elite - from the democratic will of the party’s left-leaning membership.’
😡😡😡

I thought I knew quite a lot about the US agribusiness industry, but these facts are deeply shocking.

Horrified at the appalling treatment of left wing Jewish members of the Labour Party under Starmer 🥲

Thoughts of the character Fundholz, an elderly beggar:
‘Repeated experience had taught him that poorer people were inclined to offer more than rich ones. If they could, they almost always gave something, and they did so without showing off and without the tone of magnanimity with which people considered to be enormously wealthy gave ten or twenty pfennig.’

Yikes! Old George certainly didn’t go in for the FeelGood stuff!! 😊

Hopefully all constituents of Cardiff West - (parachuted Labour MP Alex Barrow-Curtis) have read The Fraud?!!

Fascinating, but parking for a spell while I crack on with my library pile!

Grrrrrr! Reading this is making my blood boil!!!

Very much enjoying this but parking it while I read Fraud by Paul Holden about the execrable Keir Starmer.

‘ Even though Billy’s train wasn’t moving, its boxcars were kept locked tight …
… Human beings in there were excreting into steel helmets, which were passed to the people at the ventilators, who dumped them … The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the human beings were quiet and trusting and beautiful. They shared’ …
❤️ Vonnegut’s humanity

‘I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee.

‘I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that’.

Just so, dear Kurt.

Reading of the rebuilding of Warsaw after the Nazi regime levelled it to the ground, I wonder if Gaza will ever be rebuilt by Palestinians for Palestine?

Reading Hollie McNish makes me feel happy!

Quote from Ms Temelkuran ‘ … the story of humanity: a big savage bunch capable of indescribable violence but one that somehow surprises you with its beauty only when you are about to give up on it, the frequency of its appearance being as rare as finding a large banknote in one of your old coats when you need it most.’

I’m well aware of quite a lot of this story - tomorrow will be our 48th fortnightly vigil for Gaza in our small Welsh town - but even so I am having to read this book earlier in the day as if I read it at bedtime I would be too angry to sleep.

It strikes me, reading M. Myriel’s Notes on the Disposal of My Household Expenses, that Monsieur Jeff Bezos might take some good counsel from the Bishop’s good example…

I intended to start reading this great work yesterday, it being the anniversary of Victor Hugo’s birth but was delayed by a nasty virus which, incredibly unusual for this inveterate bookworm, made me too weak to even read! Quel horreur!

It may be great art, but! On page 132 and feeling rather depressed! 🤪