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Jonathan Law retweeted
'The psychic researcher Arthur Guirdham crossed Otmoor one hot summer day in 1933 and was overcome by the sense of ‘an old evil’ in the ‘grey-green silence of the heavy vegetation.’ On reaching his inn, he collapsed with a nervous illness that prostrated him for days.' Link below
Jonathan Law retweeted
An evocative landscape, with the hazards of driving through the countryside on a wintry night, by 20th century Birmingham illustrator Michael Reilly. He specialised in transport-related scenes and travel posters (1930s)
Jonathan Law retweeted
New on the substack, a very strange alarmingly true story from forty years ago: ‘Actually a man died because of me. I mean, I as good as killed him.
‘In fact I did kill him. I killed him, Jon.’ (link in reply below)
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An excellent read for Henry Williamson fans (and also haters):
You might find this of interest -- and the two follow-up pieces jonathanlaw.substack.com/p/t…
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Hello everyone, this is a message from inside prison, from a young Iranian woman who is about to be executed. Please help me to amplify her voice before they hang her. 💔
«Remember my name, maybe I will not be able to speak again.»
This is the voice of Najmeh Amini, a 23 year old accounting student, speaking from Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad. In her voice message she says: «Be my voice. I am an innocent girl, a young woman full of hopes and dreams.»
Najmeh is one of the detainees of the January uprising .
She spent months in detention without a verdict, denied access to a lawyer of her choice and pressured during interrogation. In August, her trial was held at the Revolutionary Court of Mashhad on charges of «assembly and collusion» and «insulting sacred values.»
She said in her voice message that her death sentence was issued on September 16, 2026.
In her own words: «People, I only want justice and the chance to defend myself.» And this is her dream: «Before the rope ends my life, let me see my Iran prosperous and free.»
Be her voice and all of political prisoners, especially those at risk of execution.
#NajmehAmini
#StopExecutionsInIran
Jonathan Law retweeted
Dropping back to see if it's still worth posting anything here.
By way of this experiment, please RT:
This book is now in its 15th week at #1 in the "Irish Times" non-fiction hardbacks; the biggest-selling non-fiction in Ireland overall in 2026 so far.
Message ends.
Jonathan Law retweeted
The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
Jonathan Law retweeted
He will be executed tomorrow he will be hanged. He’s just a child. Please help me to get the leaders to call the Islamic Republic to stop the execution.
My heart broke when I just watched the forced confession of this young boy on Iran’s state TV.
They tell him: “You are Mohareb.”
He asks: “What does that mean?”
He was so young, he didn’t understand that it means one thing in Islamic Republic:
execution
A 17-year-old boy, Shervin Bagherian, was arrested in Iran’s recent protest. Now in the middle of a war they are preparing to execute him.
His only crime was wanting a normal life. There is still time to speak up. Will you stand with me and be his voice before it’s too late?
#StopExecutionsInIran
Jonathan Law retweeted
In 'The Echo.' (1891) a young girl shouts into the Finnish midsummer night, and you feel her joy and wonder at discovering her voice ricocheting all around her. It's one of Ellen Thesleff's finest paintings yet her work wasn't shown at the Helsinki Ateneum until a century later.
