The best-selling Irish author Sally Rooney risks criminal offense in the United Kingdom for her continued support of banned organization Palestine Action.

Don’t like this trend for TV detectives where the detective has an underlying mystery - a murdered partner or a missing sibling or something - and everything keeps coming back to that. I just want a weekly mystery, that’s all.

But at least we’re now protected from Sally Rooney’s dangerous books

The big secret of the publishing industry: it doesn't matter if people love a book, *if it's not getting into shops in big numbers* it's fucked. And the books that get into shops in big numbers have money behind them. This does not. And that explains why I'm doing this...

“More explanation is needed” = “You stupid people plainly haven’t understood us so we will TELL YOU LOUDER”

Email yesterday from Microsoft that in coming 365 updates “You'll get access to Copilot in your productivity apps and advanced AI features”. Not “do you want” mark you, but “you’ll get”.

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a cottage in the Scottish Highlands, an Agatha Christie novel, an alluring rainstorm, a crackling fire, a kettle on the stove, and a basket of freshly-baked emotional support scones?

Murray went on to found Endell Street Military Hospital in London, staffed entirely by women. One of the most successful military hospitals of the war. Its motto was: "Deeds, not Words." When the war ended, she ordered the suffragette flag raised, to the sound of cheers from the male patients.

Remembering Gwyneth Bebb today. She passed Oxford law finals with first class marks in 1913, but was refused a degree. The CA rejected her claim to become a solicitor, saying only men were "persons" within the legislation. In 1920 she finally became a Bar student. But died in childbirth in 1921.

Put. On. The. Ring.

There is no ethical use of Gen AI, because it only exists and functions today by having violated copyright in stealing the work of a vast number of creatives, including authors.

Some pre-order news next week...

If they’ve nothing to hide, they’ve nothing to fear

'A neighbouring pygmy hippo who wishes to remain anonymous says Altai was quiet and kept to himself, but unsubstantiated rumours abound in the penguin enclosure about alleged Freemasonic connections.'

Movie posters that could only be put up in British railway stations, one of a series of probably one.