Curious, particularly because Beckett would have made the English translation himself from French.

I know nobody else will care about this.

** most of the attacks on the BBC stemming from the leak of the Prescott memo are very obviously insincere.

* while it may even be possible to argue that President Trump is sincere in his false beliefs, making such an argument would require you to know nothing at all about e.g. Roy Cohn and his influence on Trump. It would also imply that Trump is mentally incompetent to be President.

... where there is argument about the truthfulness of statements or the presentation of those statements, it is useful to ask yourself who is being accurate, but also who is being sincere.

Anybody who has read about the background to the rally on the 6th of January, other speeches given on the day, and in particular social media traffic preceding the event, cannot fail to understand that Trump's speech was given to an already dangerous crowd in a febrile atmosphere.

The speech was a tirade of lies, untruths and fabrications and contained a clear attempt to influence Mike Pence not to certify valid election results.

Yet we are asked to accept that editing two sections of the speech together gave an inaccurate impression of what Trump said and what he meant.

On reform of the BBC as an institution and a source of journalism, this 2018 piece by the excellent Owen Bennett-Jones still takes some beating: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I hope the Culture Secretary and her Cabinet colleagues understand that and can disentangle these questions from one another.

Truth has a well known liberal-progressive bias.

Personally fascinated by the difference between literary and historical fiction in relation to VI.

www.nybooks.com/online/2018/...

The poetry is in the pity

Glad it’s not just me!

‘Cannonball Adderley III, the third of the Cannonball Adderleys.’

As the man himself said: 'We have no elucidations to offer of mysteries that are all of their making.'