So the UK passed a law especially to stop Abu Dhabi buying the Telegraph, which in turn screwed other foreign investment in UK news, paving the way for the Telegraph to be sold to⌠some unknown hardcore Trump-backing super-pro-Israel US guy with unclear funding. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/o...
Alarm among staff at potential new owner, who has backed fighting Hamas âwith every report and headlineâ
Trump pretty clearly called Elon Musk âElanyaâ today.
A âNew York Timesâ book critic spent five days in Dublin and wrote about its literary history. This correction is appended to the story.
I wrote about how the poetry of the Second World War is still being recovered from the rubble someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/lincolnshi...
The lost modernist poems of the Second World War
Charming c18th saying OTD: 'ASK MY ARSE' â "a common reply to any question". Also, this marginally more eloquent (?) version:
Jimmy Carter is 870 years away from outliving Methuselah
This is the fundamental paradox of AI: if it's actually helping you, there is no way to know when it is no longer helping you. Put another way: if you can supervise it effectively enough to catch its mistakes, you probably didn't need it in the first place.
The Patrick Kavanagh Society in association with the Patrick Kavanagh Centre are delighted to announce this yearâs recipient of the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award is Simon Costello. patrickkavanaghcentre.com/patrick-kava...
Simon Costello is from Tullamore, Co. Offaly. He is currently a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar at University College Dublin. His pamphlet Saturn Devouring was published by The Lifeboat Pre...
By Flann O'Brien: My grasp of what he wrote and meant Was only five or six %. The rest was only words and sound â My reference is to Ezra ÂŁ.