There’s a sort of gulf in my (our) generation between people who grew up in multicultural areas of huge cities and everyone else. In that I’ll describe the levels of racist violence; the fact the NF were on our council; organised in the pub behind our house - and people look at you like you’re mad.

My youngest is very partial to a fancy bookmark. An ornate library card and a fancy bookmark every December for 6 visits a year. Or a poster. 6 visits a year and you get a pick of some really cool book cover/graphic art posters which aren’t available to buy. I’d have gone for that!

Because (broadly) we construct romantic relationships with the woman taking the vulnerable, passive, receiver part. Same reason that Nancy Sinatra managed to persuade the songwriter of These Boots Were Made for Walking to change it from a man’s to a woman’s song, because it felt too mean as it was.

Every time they interviewed young Caerphilly voters they all said they were swinging behind Plaid to block Reform. The Plaid candidate is well known and liked (and people are furious at Labour) but it was very tactical.

I had a similar response. I’m more ADHD and can do small talk but have a habit of a) being much too honest b) plunging into the honest bit of the conversation with both feet and whether the other person is ready or not c) wanting to talk about *everything* so all conversations last 3+ hours.

Sorry, mid 80s to start of the 90s…

Yes. UEFA banned English football fans from European matches in the early 90s, I think.

I’ve moved increasingly over to audio for fiction (this is partly because I’m dyslexic and have to read for my academic day job and just wouldn’t consume fiction if I had to read it as well!)

But I know that quite a number of my friends have moved over to audio as well.

Am trying to use Libro.fm

This is basically true. With the caveat ‘no *living* single person’ but I know that’s what you meant.

Portions of the right and left are both playing games with the hierarchy of victimhood (generally in different directions). It is up to all of us who believe in a multicultural Britain and the ethics of tolerance and non-violence to resist this pernicious sorting hat of guilt and blame.

It would be great to see news and social media coverage linking attacks on Muslim and Jewish spaces as violence directed at minority groups and driven by conspiracy theories, racism and ignorance - as they both are.

It’s never occurred to me to do it though I do always flag to the platform itself.

I mean, everything is really awful but people are still making good stuff…