The isolation of Covid will only make this worse.
- Gaby Hinsliff
- Th Guardian
Read a book, as the old saying goes, and it will set you free.
But even the power of literature surely has its limits, and this week a judge in Leicester tested them.
Faced with a Nazi sympathiser convicted of downloading bomb-making instructions, and white supremacist and fascist material from the internet, Judge Spencer issued a suspended two-year sentence and…
“Think about Hardy. Think about Trollope,” he added, helpfully.
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the judge thought, might be a good place to start.
It might have…