The Russian government warned Ukraine that Ukraine’s new fleet of F-16 fighter jets will be treated as a "nuclear-capable threat" by Russia, and “nuclear-capable threat” is also the nickname Putin has given his tallywacker.
Today's #WaferThinBook: Faustine by Emma Tennant (1992, 140p.)
A retelling of the Faust legend, set in 1990s London with a female cast. Doormat Muriel becomes rich, sexy, envied Lisa through the machinations of a Satanic Gran. "An entertaining tract for the times," said the TLS.
2024 Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award goes to Rachita Taneja & Zunzi (Wong Kei-kwan).
"Rachita Taneja’s popular online webcomic Sanitary Panels chronicles daily life in India. Since the end of 2020 the cartoonist has labored under the threat of a prison sentence..."
"May 2023, HK’s Ming Pao newspaper dismissed its cartoonist Zunzi, who drew..for the paper since 1983. The decision came after months of criticism...by...public officials"
Woman sacked from radio station for telling truth about Israel
Critics of Israel cannot be allowed to have jobs
LBC has made the courageous decision to sack a radio presenter after she forgot know her place and dared challenge an Israeli spokesperson during an interview.
“I was in love with the book. In pure, ignorant defiance of the decree of the Iowa Writing School that controls almost all modern fiction, Galt tells without showing.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin discusses John Galt’s ANNALS OF THE PARISH
“[Galt’s] realism is hard-headed, his compassion is tough-minded, his humour contagious but tainted with the sense that chaos and catastrophe are never far away.”