Tag Archives: reading

Friday Links: At Least We Have Football….

Posted on August 23, 2025 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! The world is in no better shape but the football season has begun so that’s some consolation, although Chelsea drew to Crystal Palace at home in their first game of the season….so it may not bring me actual … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Plane Crashes and Rising Authoritarianism

Posted on June 13, 2025 by nicdempsey

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 … Continue reading →

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Book Squee: A Bold Return to Giving a Damn – Will Harris

Posted on May 13, 2025 by nicdempsey

Will Harris runs a regenerative farm in rural Georgia and this book is about the land he farms and how and why he came to be farming it in the way he does and what his way of farming has … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Slouching Towards Jerusalem

Posted on October 11, 2024 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! Pro-war, anti-Netanyahu: that has been the Israeli liberal conundrum in a terrible year. This is generally my issue with Israelis of all political stripes, they just don’t see the Palestinians as human beings and so they can’t see … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Gloomy

Posted on September 27, 2024 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! Autumn is upon us and there is no good news…. ‘I have £7 in my bank account’: how the two-child benefit cap changed Britain. Honestly, it was a stupid idea. People have babies and honestly the decision to … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Binfire

Posted on August 16, 2024 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel. This is so worth reading. I also want to recommend Ami Ayalon’s book ‘Friendly Fire‘, which is are really … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Election Fever…

Posted on June 14, 2024 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! I’m really beginning to worry about the lack of thinking capacity and callousness of voters. Who are the people who think that Nigel Farage would make a good MP? Actually, I know some of them and it would … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: The World is a Bin Fire

Posted on October 27, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! Last week I wrote a Friday Links post but then decided not to post. Because I wrote in anger after a discussion about the situation in Gaza. My basic point was that I can be horrified by what … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: No good news

Posted on September 29, 2023 by nicdempsey

It’s been another really depressing news week. A 15 year old got stabbed (boys are afraid girls will reject them, girls are afraid boys will kill them), Suella Braverman thinks all refugees and immigrants liars and criminals, which given that … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Crumbling Schools…

Posted on September 1, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! Ministers face calls to explain delay in closing schools over concrete crisis. In the very early 90’s, at 6th form college, we had to have lessons in portacabins, they were not in great shape and I remember one … Continue reading →

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