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Adelaide Festival board resigns and Adelaide Writers’ Week cancelled after 180 authors pull out in protest of Zionist board decision to disinvite Palestinian author.
Remember this, if you’re a Zionist: like the Nazis before you, you are committing genocide, you are on the wrong side of history, and – as long as there are people of good moral character and conscience to oppose you – you will not succeed. Your only allies are the MAGAs of the world and those too spineless to stand up to …

Adelaide Writers' Week cancelled after week of escalating controversy around author Randa Abdel-Fattah
The remaining members of the Adelaide Festival board will step down and this year's Writers' Week event has been cancelled, after days of furore regarding the decision to cancel a scheduled appearance by Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah.

he framework upon which the wardrobes will be built starts to take shape.
The headboard sockets are at about the right height :phew:
He was asking if the wardrobe should be backed with some kind of board or if these support struts should remain visible inside the wardrobe.
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I guess it looks neater if you back it, but then there's also some lost space. It'd be painted either way of course.

Good.
Never submit to #Racisn, or to the apologists of #Genocide.
#GazaGenocide

Adelaide Writers' Week cancelled after week of escalating controversy around author Randa Abdel-Fattah
The remaining members of the Adelaide Festival board will step down and this year's Writers' Week event has been cancelled, after days of furore regarding the decision to cancel a scheduled appearance by Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah.

Jacinda Ardern quits Adelaide Festival's Writers Week appearance
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/12/jacinda-ardern-quits-adelaide-festical-writers-week-boycott-randa-abdel-fattah/

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Great news.
Akenfield is wonderful book, as was the BBC film based on it (possibly available at BFI).
British Library acquires archive of rural life writer and essayist Ronald Blythe | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan

Hidden on page 1692 of his great-grandfather Siegfried’s unpublished memoir, the writer Joe Dunthorne discovers a confession. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002c4x0 A tragic family story but an example of retelling for the next generation. Available globally as 'The History Podcast'

BBC Radio 4 - The History Podcast, Half-Life, 1. Daughter of Radium
Hidden on page 1692 of his great-grandfather's memoir, Joe Dunthorne finds a confession.

Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93 (Sam Roberts/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/business/media/arthur-carter-dead.html

Arthur L. Carter, 93, Dies; Investment Banker Founded a Cheeky Newspaper
After making a fortune on Wall Street, he bought The Nation magazine and founded The New York Observer, which one writer called a “maypole of Manhattan gossip and intrigue.”

#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 30 — the day I skipped
30. Share some good things about how your work went this month!
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I am burnt out, but hey, no time like the Present Continuous.
I have approached the 100th page of translation for #DarkScience aka