Walther on fire thelampmagazine.com/blog/is-dona...

Generative AI should not be available in schools. Tools like ChatGPT and Copilot are being put into classrooms, but they lead to worse learning outcomes and worse mental health. Sign our petition to demand a two-year pause on AI in schools in BC, Canada actionnetwork.org/petitions/pa...

Vance puts it well here: the Pope should stick to matters of morality and the President to matters of immorality.

Stanley Park Drive plz

The driver of a white GMC Yukon knocked down and killed a man crossing the road a few blocks from my house in broad daylight. This is the kind of stranger attack that needs urgent attention from the police force and the council of my city. vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/04/13/v...

Solti Strauss for a grey day www.youtube.com/watch?v=eapn...

At the Scruton Chipotle (Richmond branch).

Viktor Orban spotted in Chipotle in Richmond.

Doubtless very idealized, but makes summertime Oslo seem like a better Vancouver (fjords standing in for Gulf Islands, but with trams, proper nineteenth century parks and nice literate people living in Haussmann apartment blocks, not renting basement suites).

Enough if you were Orban to make you lose your faith in Rod.

A superb obituary. www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...

"In order to render the strange logic of dreams, Freud quoted the old joke about the borrowed kettle: (1) I never borrowed a kettle from you, (2) I returned it to you unbroken, (3) the kettle was already broken when I got it from you."

A superb tonic for a creeping mood: why bother reading (or writing) anything? harpers.org/archive/2026...

Curiously in Vancouver it is fifteen degrees, the cherry blossom is out and I do feel rather stressed for reasons.

Elbridge Colby (my exact contemporary) is a Roman Catholic.

A great masterpiece of what we must call Roman Calvinism

Sparks joy

'The IDF branded the wave of strikes launched on Wednesday with the codename of “Eternal Darkness.”' www.timesofisrael.com/idf-launches...

There are worse uses of American power, but this is by far the strangest.

Meanwhile in the city of Vancouver, in the province of British Columbia, in the Dominion of Canada.

Pizzaballa delivered a homily of great power and beauty today www.lpj.org/en/news/homi...

This is Vancouver so the price presumably is the lot value for people wanting to demolish and build a 'dream home' but I find this a wild and beautiful fusion of Po-Mo and Hi-Tech. www.rew.ca/properties/1...

Great item today from @cheetah.bsky.social on JD Vance's forthcoming conversion memoir. TL;DR: Although Vance is Catholic, the cover photo for his book depicts a (very photogenic) Methodist church. www.thebulwark.com/i/192730409/...

An impotent condemnation, but it beats none at all.

🇨🇦 Le Premier ministre canadien Mark Carney a dénoncé mardi "l'invasion illégale" israélienne au Liban, dénonçant une violation de "sa souveraineté et de son intégrité" ⤵️

Other Chestertons are Available

All - or nearly All - the Matzos

I feel the greatest possible admiration for this man.

Said no one in Vancouver City Council: let's do bike lanes for FIFA.

Probably me getting stupider with age, but I found both Fraser and Meaney's tributes rather impenetrable. Perhaps Habermas is catching.

I can't think of a better living novelist - very excited for this. www.nyrb.com/products/the...

Brave of Mr Sitwell to write this, when he is living proof that talent is less hereditary than you would hope.

This is a remarkable essay and also the first time I can remember reading something genuinely arresting from Substack (because it's in a newspaper now I suppose).

Writing to Akhnaten: the hypnotic loops really suit the rhythm of drafting sentences then deleting them.

James B on Sir Noel! Unmissable.

No Israel prosecutions for killing Palestinian civilians in occupied West Bank since start of decade

Whitecaps! www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...

Very many years ago I taught the excellent Richard Ansell, who goes from strength to strength....

Looking up Operation Epic Fury on the White House website for a lecture and the 'related' page tells quite a story.

Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!

MattGPT

It is of course suspect to find that you write well to old recordings of 'Parsifal', but such is my condition.

Spring in Vancouver is Herzog Time.

'Importantly,'

Fantastic essay

London friends inducing Siegfried envy, so putting on the Boulez/Chéreau version that introduced me to Wagner properly (thanks to Tim Blanning). www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH_Z...

Been going through some old books and found this historical artefact from the analogue days of book reviewing.

Probably wise not to have gone with 'rejuvenated'.

Riveting thread