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James Ball argues that the tech bros have outsourced social media moderation to British police forces – not surprisingly, they're terrible at it: "It shouldn’t become normal that the police get involved in social media disputes. They have better things to do, and it’s bad for freedom of expression – even if people aren’t actually being sent to the gulags, self-censorship based on fear is real and a problem. We should be trying to tackle this. And that means looking why it’s happening."

"I can understand why he took the job. I can understand why he left Meta after Donald Trump was elected. What I can’t understand is why he has written this book." Naomi Alderman reviews books by Nick Clegg and Tim Berners-Lee,

James Graham promises us a "defence of Liberalism".

Scarlet Cassock takes us behind the scenes of the scandal at Bangor Cathedral: "Many of us in the choir were, admittedly, recipients of their largesse and generosity, albeit with varying degrees of discomfort. They were always very clear that we relied upon their protection in order to maintain our position here, a claim made more tangible by the withholding of contracts of employment, agreed budgets and other types of paperwork."

"The concrete structures were built between 1900 and 1910, but Clee Hill was thriving with industrial activity long before then. Iron, coal, clay and limestone have all been mined here, but these crushers were built for the "Dhu Stone", a dolerite named after the Welsh word for Black. Demand for Dhu Stone dropped in the 1960s, and the quarry dwindled, but back in 1900 more than two thousand people were employed here." Shrewsbury From Where You Are Not takes us to the extraordinary post-industrial landscape of Titterstone Clee.

"Larkin’s prose is glorious, equally impressive in its portrayal of the nostalgic atmosphere of a bucolic English summer and its evocation of the bitterness of an unforgiving winter. Larkin is particularly strong when it comes to capturing life in an English town during wartime, an environment where people find themselves in rather diminished circumstances." JacquiWine reads A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin.