Happy Friday!

We are pretty much in the era of no good news, so here are some links…

What Keir Starmer can’t say. This is long but worth reading

British man is sole survivor of Air India plane crash that left more than 260 dead

US senator Alex Padilla comments on forcible removal from Noem event as Democrats condemn ‘sickening assault’ News from the US hasn’t been good in a while but this just about says it all

Iran Is Breaking Rules on Nuclear Activity, U.N. Watchdog Says. Well yes they probably are, but Israel has a completely unmonitored nuclear programme. Everyone should be subject to the same rules, yes?

Mount Etna spews huge plumes of ash. I don’t know how people live near Etna, it’s really active, but the world and most especially Europe doesn’t need a massive natural disaster to add to all the man made ones happening at the moment.

Therapy isn’t about life hacks. The best solutions are simpler – and more complex. This is lovely and so true but like a lot of things in life, sucks. I have a translation of the Book of Job, at the end of it, when all of Job’s wealth, health etc is restored (but not really because how do you restore a dead wife and kids), God is justifying what He did and Job says “As hearing but the ear I have heard you/And now my eye has seen you/That is why I am fed up”. I access my inner self via my relationship with God and I understand that I’m allowed to be fed up with having to do the work. The work needs to be done, nethertheless…

‘A godsend at 5am’: the ultimate, sometimes surprising, festival kit list, by the experts I am well past camping and festivals but a surprising number of people I know are going camping this summer and some of these suggestions are pretty good.

I also what to recommend this week’s In Our Time, which was about the evolution of lungs. You know it’s a good one when one of the experts on the show, gets excited about learning something new, I honestly had no idea that lungs aren’t all similar from an evolutionary point of view (the sciences have never really been my thing!).

While I’m on a R4 roll, Postwar, has also been fascinating, well the two I have heard, there are five and they are 15 minutes long so easy to dive into.