A few choice words from Salman Rushdie in today’s Guardian (full article here). “We live in a time I did not think I would see, a time when freedom – and in particular, freedom of expression, without which the world of books could not exist – is everywhere under attack from reactionary, authoritarian, populist, demagogic, half-educated, narcissistic, careless voices; when places of education and libraries are subject to hostility and censorship; and when extremist religion and bigoted ideologies have begun to intrude in areas of life in which they do not belong”.
Licensed today: cricket at Bristol, in 2017, England women v Australia women…
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