Joe Morgan

Think not of the books you’ve bought as a “to be read” pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood. — Luc van Donkersgoed

Today the regime in Iran executed Amirhossein Hatami— he was just 18 years old. To every privileged Westerner chanting “hands off Iran” while waving the flag of his executioners: this is what you represent—dead Iranians.

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope

I've never sen anything more accurate

Today would be my dad’s 74th birthday. 💙

This is De Gaulle with his daughter, Anne, who had Down’s syndrome, on a beach in Brittany 1933. He doted on her and she lived with him and his wife all her short life at a time when children with disabilities were regularly institutionalised. She died of pneumonia in 1948 aged only 20. He carried a picture of her with him for the rest of his life. He was buried alongside her. A tale of unconditional, unlimited love.

To the immortal memory of Colonel Arnaud Beltrame of the Gendarmerie nationale who died on this day eight years ago. He selflessly exchanged himself for a hostage, putting himself in the hands of a terrorist who had already murdered three people. It cost him his life.

Happy 8️⃣0️⃣th birthday to Alan Bleasdale George’s Last Ride, Boys from the Blackstuff - perhaps the BBCs finest work… “Those dreams of long ago - they still give me hope and faith in my class”

The most middle class people in the wealthiest, freest societies in history vote in leftist politicians who then fly out to lecture brutalised Cuban peasants who’ve spent their lives being immiserated under communism about why the West is evil and socialism is great

Richard Dreyfuss giving a blunt response on new inclusion standards in cinema…

“Practice any art… no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.” - McKellen reciting Vonnegut

Ex-Blockbuster employee here. And I mean it with 100% sincerity that the world would be a better place if we shut down all streaming services, re-opened Blockbusters and video stores worldwide, and shoved people back out into the world to find and enjoy their entertainment.

@AaronBastani What happened to left wing support for good old fashioned secularism? Why should public spaces be taken over by ANY religion for these mass worship events? Keep it in the home or a religious building.

“Most British ‘conservatives’ are liberals who don’t like Muslims.” - old socialist proverb

Such a powerful image. Clement Attlee rests after acting as an honorary pallbearer at Winston Churchill's funeral in 1965. From 1940-45, they had served in Cabinet together. From 1945-55 they had opposed each other in the Commons as their respective party leaders.

People ask why the SDP don’t get more attention? They tell me online that they would vote for us if there was a candidate in their area. They suggest we should do more social media and get more famous people to join. If only it was that easy….. If you want a patriotic party that isn’t wedded to just one more dose of Thatcherism… If you want a party that will build nuclear power stations and infrastructure….. If you want a party that recognises the dignity of work and the desperation of idleness… If you want a party who are across the detail and don’t generate ‘slop’ in place of policy… If you want a party that thinks mass immigration has to be stopped immediately…. YOU HAVE TO BUILD THAT PARTY. NOBODY IS COMING TO SAVE YOU. YOU HAVE TO SAVE YOURSELVES. The @AndrewGold_ok interview with William Clouston has been watched 120,000 times and the overwhelming majority of the comments are positive. We can all shout at the television and moan on WhatsApp groups and X to our friends & family but if you really want to change the country YOU have to get up off the sofa and actually start working tenaciously towards the future that YOU want otherwise the things that YOU are concerned about will come to pass and there will be no chance for YOU and YOUR family and YOUR children. Most of us don’t have the resources to escape. We are tied by generations to place by Kith and Kin. Besides, who would want to live today in Dubai with Iranian missiles raining down? We need to make a stand here in Britain and build a party that actually loves our country and her people and won’t give up. Join @SDPhq & @WilliamClouston and build a party you can be proud to vote for @ProudofusUK youtu.be/dtHv2aEFRVk?is…

This cat's patience level is at its peak 😂😂

Clement Attlee loved books and poetry. He committed his favourite poems and literary passages to memory. 'In WWI, I used to spend the long nights keeping awake in Gallipoli or France, and I would set myself the task of repeating to myself a hundred lines' of poetry or prose.

When Roger Scruton (1944-2020) organized an "underground university" with lectures and smuggled literature in Czechoslovakia in 1985 he was detained by the dreaded secret police StB (Státní bezpečnost), interrogated and expelled, his colleagues had to eat incriminating evidence like something out of a movie. Now the Communist agencies (the usual NGOs etc.) operating in Cambridge are targeting the foundations operating there in his memory and name. Meanwhile Cambridge itself or the Yookay Government does nothing to honor the most important British philosopher of the 21st century. What a disgusting situation, and I say this as a huge anglophile.

When I break silence and decide to start talking at the barman for absolutely no reason after he hadn't asked.

I’m deeply uncomfortable with this. War is noisy, chaotic, messy, bloody, smelly and terrifying - after the event for me, rather than at the time. When you’ve had someone’s head splashed over you, smelled the stench of someone’s flesh burning, seen corpses ripped apart and scattered across the ground, a dead persons guts spilled across the road and covered with dirt and flies…then you may realise that it’s not like a computer game, Hollywood film, or about cheering on a football team. War is on another level. At the effects end it is serious beyond the comprehension of those who’ve not experienced it intimately. It scars you. When it comes to it, someone has to stand between those who would do harm and those to whom they would do it. But things that glorify war or portray it as a sport or game, as this video does, concern me.