Sacred Treasure
- D A Carson has been a giant in biblical scholarship – so this tribute edition of Themelios is well deserved.
- Tom Holland the historian has popped up on Andrew Sullivan’s Weekly Dish on Our Christian World.
- Victoria Emily Jones has done a very generous thing and shared her long-running personal playlist of music for coping with grief.
Topical Treasure
- Historian Timothy Snyder on Superpower Suicide
- Jeremiah Johnson on why everyone you meet online is a freak
- There have been gazillions of analyses of Charles III’s fascinating speech to Congress this week. Here is a compelling one
- Sam Leith on why AI/LLMs do ruin everything – writer Alex Preston is facing his humiliation after being found out.
- The delusions of Empire … to last 8000 years… yeah, right.
- Who ARE the British? Nick Danziger’s photos from 1994-1995 tried to give one answer.
- Love this variation on the English Heritage Blue Plaques
Quirky Treasure
- Laura Thompson on the nitty-gritty of dedicating your own books
- I do pity friends having to learn English as a second (or more) language. What a crazy thing it is. No wonder some have tried to make it entirely phonetic – such as this rendering of Hamlet’s Soliloquy
- Paul Hindemith is not everybody’s classical music hero – but you have to admit that this is pretty clever… (even if you can’t read music).
- Tom Gauld never fails to amuse or prod… genius!
