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As we pause for the Christmas season, we reflect on the importance of community, kindness, and the small things that still work in our daily lives, even amidst the institutional challenges we document.
• via BBC News
Council contractors in Croydon have been photographed dumping hundreds of library books onto the pavement outside the shuttered Broad Green Library, treating decades of accumulated knowledge like household rubbish. The mayor calls it "unacceptable" and promises action against the contractors. But the real story isn't about careless workers or damaged books. It's about what happens when a society stops valuing the infrastructure of literacy itself.