garethllevans.bsky.social
Swansea boy at large in London. Lawyer (partially retired). Public law. Mostly skeeting on music/lit/culture. Sometimes church and a few photos
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Not to mention the bards use of fronted adverbials
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And Taming of the Shrew has nothing to do with sexism because it is a critique of Petruccios “taming merthods” rather than a celebration of it
(But oops we don’t do criticism)
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Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in fer me
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Do it the Australian way, boil until cooked and then sear on the bbq. Guaranteed succulent, safe bangers
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Horrifying. It seems the best the US can hop for at the moment is that the incipient political violence can be contained. But it feels/looks more and more like Northern Ireland troubles level of discontent
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Seeit, sayit, sorted (ah well)
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Doesn't he have a suit?
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So Katie and Stephen are speaking again?
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But on the subject of re-reading the classics I’m just off Grapes of Wrath and Chapter 21 (“the Moving questing people were migrants now”) strikes so true in a way that it did not when I read it too long ago.
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It is not a novel of course but the project is novelistic and would be reflected in so many novels of that era
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I think re-reading the recent canon is also important. I’m re-reading Svetlana Alexeivich’s Second Hand Time at the moment. It fascinated me at the time but how much more important is it to revisit he post Soviet record in the light of the current Russian conflicts
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* rainin..
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I went to see Ballad of Wallis Island yesterday and it’s great. The shopkeeper (Sian Clifford) did few South Wales dialect jokes that only I seemed to get.
I loved especially(with fond memory)-
“It’s raining is it?”
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He hasn't read it, of course
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Has anybody made a comparative assessment of the strength of American vs Russian windows?
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Windows come before prison (he says cryptically)
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Narrator - the orange orangutan went HOT CHICKEN
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And the tapes that live there
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As a UK citizen I’m grateful that even by our standards we don’t have any politician as stupid as this. She hasn’t even realised that if her orange overlord suspends habeas corpus he would no longer be able to deport anybody, on her reading
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So, per Noem, if her orange overlord suspends habeas corpus it suspends his right to deport people. Has anybody told him
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I disagree. It’s projection after he learned the word from his doctor describing how a part of him has atrophied. Anybodies guess as to which part (or parts). 🍄?
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The “atrophied” bit is projection. The tangerine termagant has obvs been told that a piece of him has atrophied
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Nothing wrong with that. Prime London longing for a New Labour Government while maxing out (uncritically) on all the good food and stuff coming over from our then lovely EU friends
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Very easy, paper over the Tory “Great” Britain banners in every government building with “Brand” Britain. Huge savings, enough to build a new Hospital
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Wonderful
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The greatest day of their lives probably. They’ve been planning this every minute of every day since they knew they were going. Like a fan from an unfancied football team competing a FA Cup final in Wembley. So futile. “False Consciousness” in photo form
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It could have been bagpipes. So there’s that
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The Cardinals now have an exquisite opportunity to live rent free in the orange man’s head by electing Joe Biden (Catholic, male) as Pope
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Von Rubiotrop
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He looks so sad always as well. Like he realises his Faustian pact every single minute of every day
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Is it an accidental interpolation from a Mar a Lago brochure?
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And there was me thinking he was gay…
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The judge will be obliged to ask “who is Gazza?”
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And then they came for the judges, but I was not a judge