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I travelled Auschwitz (Sabrina, pictured left), 40 miles from Krakow, southern Poland, as part of the European Jewish Association's two-day conference held last weekend to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day. 'We are reminded of the darkest days of the Jewish people and Europe here,' said former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin during a moving memorial service inside the camp.' "We invented the word "Never Again" when Birkenau-Auschwitz was freed, a hundred years ago.' I was positive the whole world learned a lesson before. But since October 7, I have been wondering: "Are those words just words, or do they mean something?"'

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SHIRLEY CONRAN: Until we are going to lose it, few of us fully comprehend the force and power of real love. And with a front-row seat to the critically ill ward, I can almost feel the loving devotion. This embracing love for a worn-out, strained person is almost touching. It fills the ward with the stench of hyacinths: indescribable and barely discernible, but valuable because it is unique: it's not like it. I'm learning that death does not distinguish you from those you love, but you can no longer see, someone whose hand you have held for the first time. 'What will last of us is love,' poet Philip Larkin said, and I can see that he is correct in front of me.

Nina Stibbe is now Thunderclap, a memoir by art historian Laura Cumming, in which a dramatic event in 1654 in Delft is the catalyst for a profound discussion of Dutch art. Barbara Pym's collected works will be transported to a desert island.

Philippa Perry, a psychologist and agony aunt, has written a new relationships book called The Book You Want To Read after her immensely popular The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: William and Kate's attendance at Jordan's crown prince's wedding last week highlighted how cherished are ties with desert royalty. Most people attending overseas royal weddings are usually drawn to Edward and Sophie, but a source claims they may have been too low-ranking for this one. Despite the fact that the former king Charles and Abdullah were arrested in a violent coup attempt last May, they are still best mates.

Nell Frizzell, a writer and journalist, says she's currently reading a few books, including Lauren Bravo's debut book Preloved and This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women by Marieke Bigg. Heidi is Heidi's first book she ever read to herself, in its entirety.

ROGER LEWIS: I collapsed in a Hastings parking lot last Sunday and was given CPR by a passer-by. My heart had ceased, and I was briefly dead. With authority, I can confirm that there are no Pearly Gates nor any Fiery Furnace. Time has come to a complete halt. There isn't even any blackness or blankness to be aware of; or semi-aware of it. As Philip Larkin put it, 'the anaesthetic from which no one comes round.' Arrac arrest - The pharmacists from Morrisons broke out with their defibrillator gun, and I was taken aback.

This tragedy unfolds in three parts, each of which narrates a period in Oliver's life, the 18th century's Silbourne, his little hometown town, was going to study chemistry at Oxford. It's the ultimate setting for the suffocating English class system ('a crippling and horrific system,' Golding says), in which social status determines everything. Oliver, thwarted in love, cruelly blackmails Evie, a precocious, working-class 15-year‑old girl, into having sex - with unforeseen consequences

Ms Begum's (pictured) lawyers claim she was influenced by a 'determined and powerful ISIS propaganda machine' and should have been treated as a child smuggler. "We can use euphemisms such as jihadi bride or marriage, but the intention of taking these girls across was so that they could have sex with adult men," Dan Squires KC said. However, an MI5 observer found that Ms Begum did not know she was joining a terrorist group when she left her Bethnal Green, east London, with two other students, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana, in 2015.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Of all the spectacular shows that have unfolded in our country's capital over the past 70 years, there has never been one like Queen Elizabeth II's funeral. It was also Britain's saddest day and our best, utterly stunning and yet poignant. And amid the pomp and glamour, it was difficult to forget that this was a farewell to an individual human being, a wife and mother with dreams and concerns that we may never know. And as I watched her children and grandchildren, I was reminded of many humbler funerals, much removed from the world's view. Of course, this was not just a private function. Such is the burden of monarchy. Even in death, there can be a great deal between the personal and the public for a queen.

The opposition leader praised her "total dedication to service and sacrifice," as well as the people she loved in a special session of the Commons, adding: "We loved her in return for that." Those decades, as MPs began a lengthy debate to honor the former king, who died on the throne on Monday, spent those decades 'at the center of this country's life,' he said. 'She did not reign over us, she lived alongside us,' he said. "She spoke about our hopes and fears, our joy and our sorrow, our good times and our mishape.' Our Queen played a key role in the link between the past we treasure and the present we have.'

The University of Warwick has issued a warning far from the Madding Crowd (inset), which depicts the brutal reality of Victorian rural life. Thomas Hardy's (19th Century work (right) explores Bathsheba Everdene's loves and marriages, as well as faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak (left), Carey Mulligan and Matthias Schoenaerts appear as the characters in the book's 2015 film version). Gabriel's two hundred pregnant ewes are chased by his dog and crash to their deaths off a cliff in one scene. He kills his inexperienced sheepdog and becomes penniless after this. Four of Bathsheba's sheep died after eating a field of clover in a separate chapter. The Warwick's English Department set the alarm off the novel in the midst of scenes in which students could be 'upset by' as the story depicts the 'cruelty of nature and the rural life'.