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“They want to do something not staring at a screen and relatively inexpensive, and once people start collecting books they just buy more,” Daunt says. “BookTok is an easy label to put on it, but this is about people wanting to read and talk about books.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Bookshop chain says people are keen to escape their screens and says rise in sales is partly down to BookTok
If BBC local news gave even a fraction of the attention it gives to nimbyism to the dual climate and biodiversity crises, it's just possible there'd be less nimbyism.
Residents say the plan, equivalent to 69 football pitches, is inappropriate for the Lanreath area.
As senior EU officials have been telling me since Trump was re-elected, it's more the politics than the policies of this Administration the Europeans need to be concerned about
This.
Vance wasn’t here for a holiday.
This.
Vance wasn’t here for a holiday.
Observer: it will launch in September this year, with a budget of around £2.5m and ambitions to raise £25m to spend 'on policy formation, identifying candidates and hiring advisers and spokespeople for Reform or a possible merged Reform-Tory party' observer.co.uk/news/politic...
The vice-president shared BBQ and beers with allies whose thinktank has come to the attention of the Electoral Commission
The pursuit of knowledge, like life itself, is far more than about how much money you can make.
Something the likes of Fraser Nelson never seem to grasp.
The only people who have spoiled the nature of this area were the mindless thugs who came to our homes last evening and created chaos.
I’ve never been scared by the asylum seekers. I’m terrified that the angry mob will return.
So, how do I get my country back from them? I’ve genuinely no idea
Interesting 🎸 🎶
No Hamburg, no Beatles.
65 years today, The Beatles first performed in Hamburg.
Living and working in the city's red light district, they underwent a gruelling musical apprenticeship that set them on the path to stardom.
"I grew up in Hamburg, not Liverpool" – John Lennon
I think I mentioned something about this the other day.
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
The vice-president shared BBQ and beers with allies whose thinktank has come to the attention of the Electoral Commission
👏 Exciting 🙂
Wow, I was not expecting this. My dad wrote several Play for Todays in the early 1980s, including one called The Cause in 1981 – about unionism and the Spanish Civil War. I watched it recently & thought – where would this be commissioned now? I look forward to seeing what they do
Series aims to follow original in tackling ‘thornier issues’, and to support talent from lower-income backgrounds
So a massive PR victory for Russia and seemingly little else. Putin playing Trump like a fiddle. The only hope is that Trump comes to understands he's been outwitted and chooses to try and repair his ego by aligning himself more closely with Zelensky 🤷♂️
Russian media are hailing the Alaska summit as a big win for Moscow: • “a tactical victory for Russian diplomacy” • “huge diplomatic victory for Vladimir Putin” • “Trump perceived Russia’s interests as legitimate.”
