Barry Taylor

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones. “There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. “If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice! “Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

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Boris Johnson launches his new book.

Left: Boris Johnson says we left the EU to get our freedom and independence Right: Boris Johnson says when Ukraine gets its freedom and independence it should join the EU

@Politics_co_uk Should be the front cover of his book

enjoyed this little clip from kapital. i found their boro jackets (the main item feat in this clip) a bit hard to wear, but their ring coat is super easy if you get another item from the line (eg scarf or boots). very worth checking out if you're open to offbeat japanese workwear

92% of people under 25 and 67% of people in the UK wish to rejoin the EU. RT if you are one.

"Don't forget" 14 years of Tory pain summed up in 41 seconds of pure fire. This is like watching Bruce Banner become the Hulk for the first time.

Rishi Sunak's message in this speech is essentially that we should all ignore his party's actual record over the past 14 years and instead focus on an imagined future where everything will suddenly start working perfectly if we give them another five.

I assume this result means we will now see a representative of the Green Party on every single interview and show that the BBC do while Nigel Farage and Richard Tice will be dumped in the bin forever.

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There’s a book to be written on how Sunak got to a place where his Rwanda policy with its unworkable, cruel, expensive, law breaking nationally embarrassing contradictions- Rwanda is safe but it’s a deterrent etc, etc- became his make or break policy in a country where public services are in crisis and the post Brexit economy is stagnant. Shines much light on a prime minister hopelessly out of his depth, a Tory party gripped by fantasy with their newspapers screaming them on..it’s like a dark modern Monty Python sketch.

"Not only a powerful telling of humanity’s ongoing relationship with technology and a reflection on the current questions surrounding AI, but [God-like] is also the most compelling radical theological text I have read." Thank you @trippfuller Watch here: youtu.be/9o4xZ9VuSck

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