The self-styled spiritual hate jokes: they can’t do funny, so they desperately want to stop you using funny against them. What I’ve found in life is that the genuinely spiritual don’t need to broadcast it or go on retreats about it. Don’t patronise the well-read working classTony Mortimer: blimey, he can read and write. Just the impression that it was somehow amazing that, not just Mortimer, but any working-class person might want to read. Let’s hope his example inspires others to resume reading, maybe even encourages young people not to give it up.

Source: The Guardian January 02, 2021 17:30 UTC