Excuse me, there’s something in my eye...

By someone who was int he room where it happened.

Sirius, to be precise. (Surely you can’t be Sirius???)

The challenge of mobilising your membership.

How the Blair project ended.

“We may think that [ancient poetry] offers a scholarly retreat from the world around us... we could not be more wrong.”

Photographs from Berlin, before the Fall of the Wall and today. Compare and contrast.

Beautiful from @Tom_deWaal.

Sad piece. All three main GB political parties carry responsibility for this, Conservatives most of all of course.

An optimistic observer. Well, we’ll see...

“With the further help of remarkably efficient Albanian authorities, he’s working to get it back to Belgium.”

Hugo eligilibity extension has been only rarely invoked. “This may indicate that there is a schism between business meeting attendees and the Worldcon membership at large.”

Fascinating bit of investigative journalism.

My @APCOWorldwide colleagues @MaddieMonMon & @jumanjimonge comment.

By Fiona Moore.

by @SJAMcBride on @Tortoise.

Irish Fascist architecture.

And the crucial question: can the letter-writer be fired for reporting it?

Interesting analysis of the relationship with Varadkar.

Wise words from @chrishanretty.

Apparently Bedford is the average GB seat.

Chilling.

Tremendously moving.

Hooray!

Brilliant judicial detective work. Were the missing stamps ever in the trunk in the first place?

Elif Shafak sees the Erdogan tactics repeated in Britain.

And yet we don’t.

Jammu and Kashmir latest from @praveenswami.

Lovely! From @brainpicker.