Lucy Seton-Watson
@lucysetonw
Native Londoner, long-time Cairene, now living DK. Citizen of Nowhere par excellence. Live by the written word. Lifelong close reader: originally Greek/Latin, then Wittgenstein, then medieval ceremonial architecture in Mamluk Cairo, now back to Eng Lit.
It is also possible that the kind of people leading the AI race are, how can I put this, those who find it easier to talk to machines than children. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Can AI improve my parenting?
I put it to him that he was equating one Jewish life with hundreds or even thousands of Palestinian lives "No," he said, "millions. One Jewish life, it's 10 million [Palestinians]." Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Anthony Seldon. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Is being prime minister now an impossible job?
“By blaming Starmer millions of voters, most of the left, all of the right, and what remains of the mainstream media could avoid facing their own complicity in the national disaster.” Nick Cohen. For once, absolutely right. spectator.com/article/youl...
This bit of Shakespeare from Henry IV/2 seems appropriate, on political fickleness & short memories: “The commonwealth is sick of their own choice; Their over-greedy love hath surfeited. An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.”
Israel has now destroyed the last main bridge connecting southern Lebanon to the rest of the country. From FT. Dateline c 11:00 GMT Thurs 16 April.
“All they will find is sand.” What Israel did to the Gazans. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The man is insane. Apparently Trump really did post this image of himself as Jesus on Truth Social. There are bald eagles & fighter planes, & the Statue of Liberty is brandishing their arms in victory as Trump raises a wounded soldier from the dead.
From Iran War Dispatches: 2,000 people killed by Israel in Lebanon, 3,300 people killed in Iran. open.substack.com/pub/irandisp...
In news that won’t surprise anyone, the IDF today rammed UN peacekeeping vehicles twice today & also shot at UN peacekeepers. QED.
Just read this for god’s sake. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The 10 minutes that set Lebanon ablaze
Israelis just not stopping in Lebanon. This is 15:00 GMT Friday.
So happy at our mini-conversation that I’m now going to read this, which I didn’t get round to reading:
Israel trying to turn Lebanon - then Iran - into Gaza. ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. They make a wasteland & they call it peace.
This is the very good Stephen Bush on why Nick Timothy trying to make out that Muslim communal prayer in Trafalgar Square is different from Jewish, Hindu or whatever means something very bad indeed. Also John Major on what kind of right-wing politics you support. bit.ly/4blYYcM
The BBC’s coverage of the (Trump) Netanyahu war is so spineless. Why on Earth did Laura K. interview Herzog? What was the point? It’s just like the BBC coverage of climate deniers. They deny everything, so we publicise them, even tho it is self-evidently rubbish.
Hell in Iran is the Israeli objective. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Israel expects weeks-long war against Iran