Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
RT @StBasilsCharity@twitter.com
"When I first came here, I had no desire to do anything and I’d have been quite happy to sit in that room for the rest of my life. But I feel like I’ve actually got a future now. I’ve got dreams again.”
Read about Tom's story with St Basils:
http://stbasils.org.uk/stories/tom/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/StBasilsCharity/status/1620368944476622848
My favourite expletive, coincidentally
RT @newscientist@twitter.com
Galaxy clusters are smashing together to form 'flaming cosmic narwhal' https://www.newscientist.com/article/2357092-galaxy-clusters-are-smashing-together-to-form-flaming-cosmic-narwhal/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=echobox&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1675119400
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1620195314916261895
RT @theunfriendplay@twitter.com
The UK and the USA: two countries divided by a common language 🇬🇧🇺🇸
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/theunfriendplay/status/1619287944908472320
RT @acidhorizonpod@twitter.com
Gonna tell my kids this is how Deleuze met Guattari.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/acidhorizonpod/status/1620101604144975876
Stumbled on what would seem to be a very early (1807) variant of the I am Grimaldi/Pagliacci story. Punchline needs work.
What a delightful - and coherent - picture of the past. These chaps are the gardeners employed by an Edwardian bacon magnate.
RT @PaulSuttonKing@twitter.com
Who remembers pioneering TV gardener #PercyThrower btd 1913? I remember him well and he seemed to be a fixture on television when I was growing up. However until I purchased what I thought was a random album of #postcards I knew little about him.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PaulSuttonKing/status/1619977481150406657
Still, a chance to go back to the compassionate and informed writing of Ian Jack on this matter. This piece is one of the classics. https://granta.com/leonardos-grave/
Hmm. The band on the Titanic were not, as Lee Anderson suggests, “Playing the same tune and ignoring the obvious”. Some drowning people, it seems, must labour in metaphor forever, no matter how little sense it makes.
RT @SamCoatesSky@twitter.com
Exclusive:
Tory MP likens government to Titanic band in heated WhatsApp exchange about small boat crossings
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1619778279032131585
Nobody can say I don't engage with the primary sources
Online now. I thought I could handle it. Kids, learn from my mistakes. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/binge-watched-240-hours-crossroads-what-learnt/
RT @AnnaFazack1@twitter.com
Exclusive: Durham university was paying PhD students teaching its prestigious law degree a “shocking” £8 an hour - less than minimum wage, union reveals. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jan/28/university-phd-students-minimum-wage-trade-union?CMP=share_btn_tw
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AnnaFazack1/status/1619374918814302209
RT @sabele26@twitter.com
@BoldOutlaw@twitter.com @DrMatthewSweet@twitter.com @TimMorton2@twitter.com @BBCRadio3@twitter.com @BeestonJeremy@twitter.com My pals v prudish dad made a big thing about a new Western movie coming out. When he came back from seeing Midnught Cowboy he was aghast🤷🏼♀️
RT @alistaircoleman@twitter.com
Sad and disturbing to see the anti-vaccine ghouls already jumping upon the sudden death of Clare Drakeford today.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/alistaircoleman/status/1619366547021242368
RT @BoldOutlaw@twitter.com
@TimMorton2@twitter.com @DrMatthewSweet@twitter.com @BBCRadio3@twitter.com @BeestonJeremy@twitter.com I remember my dad taking my grandmother out to movies and choosing Lethal Weapon 2. And on the drive there, I kept suggesting it wasn’t the best choice. “C’mon, you’ve seen the first Lethal Weapon on VHS. It’s not her kind of movie.” My gran looked shell-shocked after the film.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BoldOutlaw/status/1619360688744566784
RT @FernRiddell@twitter.com
Music hall history is researched in so many places across the world, but we rarely get the chance to come together and share it at a dedicated conference - please share, support and submit!! (cc @DrMatthewSweet@twitter.com) https://twitter.com/musichallsoc/status/1617432349603405825
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FernRiddell/status/1617546990195441666
RT @Rosewind2007@twitter.com
Pride & Prejudice’s anniversary! 210 today! ❤️
When my father had terminal cancer he asked us what books he should read, I said P&P
I’ll never forget him saying:
“Why didn’t anyone tell me it was FUNNY?!?”
Sitting up in bed, tears of laughter on his face
❤️
#PrideandPrejudice
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Rosewind2007/status/1619316019293745152
If so @mattletiss7@twitter.com should get one too. He stood outside Broadcasting House last week declaring "we're coming for you". Hard not to see this as radicalisation - and indeed I've heard him talk with @thecoastguy@twitter.com about being "reborn" through their anti-vax and WEF campaigning.
RT @Barthsnotes@twitter.com
Time for Maajid Nawaz to get a Prevent referral?
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Barthsnotes/status/1613557945823813632
If you read this with pity or sympathy you can still donate to my fundraiser for @StBasilsCharity@twitter.com. You gave over £5000 but as Ronald Allen knew, you can always make something bigger. https://www.justgiving.com/page/matthew-sweet-1670941345645
My Crossroads Madness in today’s @Telegraph@twitter.com. On the 5th day, or thereabouts, I began to see the secret of King’s Oak, like the people in Foucault’s pendulum suddenly see the connectedness of the Knights Templars and the Great Kundalini Serpent.
RT @BrianTheHack@twitter.com
@DrMatthewSweet@twitter.com @BBCRadio3@twitter.com Wish I knew about this because when I was 11 my dad too me to a screening of ALL THREE Star Wars films. I suspect the phrase "torture" is an accurate one for him, but I was too young to see the first one when it came out, and was desperate to see it on a big screen.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BrianTheHack/status/1619255951160377347