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garethmedwards.bsky.social
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Do read the full article, which makes many good points.

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Keir Starmer is my MP. This is the letter I wrote to him today. Subject: Island of Strangers? Mr Starmer, Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

One of my favourite pieces of music at present: Ivor Gurney's setting of "Sleep". "Come, sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving Lock me in delight awhile". Performed by the wonderful Roderick Williams and Susie Allan. Best listened to with the lamps low at evening... www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaXR...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

submitted 5 days ago • 82 comments

UK tightening student visas during a uni funding crisis at the moment some of the biggest spenders on higher education are looking around for a new destination would be an impressive example of governing by polling against the economic interests of the country

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Ok Bluesky. I have a cauliflower. I also have some coconut milk that needs using up. I seek your views on whether or not coconut milk could ever play a useful part in an aloo gobi….

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I'm the editor of Adolescence and I'm answering your questions: www.youtube.com/shorts/-siqo...

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Makes sense. Mind blown.

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

Monday was the anniversary of the greatest disaster ever to take place on London’s tube

submitted 72 days ago • 12 comments

It’s D-Day! Yes, the Grand Final of Only Connect is also the Dth episode! No expense spared, or indeed spent. Join us for the party as two great teams battle for championship at 8pm tonight on BBC Two. Bring your own booze, because I drank all ours. #OnlyConnect #DthEpisode

submitted 75 days ago • 12 comments

‘The View from the Window’ - #RSThomas (Poetry for Supper, Rupert Hart-Davis)

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The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill). Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill). Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)

submitted 113 days ago • 127 comments

Locally Sourced Comedy, the new material night, starts again this evening at Little Drop of Poison in Exeter. And they’ve reinstated the alphabetically themed raffle! So here is my contribution, a biologically accurate drawing of an aardvark. It’s FUN, come along if you can. Free entry. 7.30 start.

submitted 123 days ago • 11 comments

NEW POST!! On the REMARKABLE and persuasive hypothesis from @helengittos.bsky.social that Byzantine grave goods in early English graves were most likely brought directly back by warriors serving in Byzantine armies (rather than, as generally suspected, gifts/trade goods).

submitted 124 days ago • 9 comments

The platform camera at Vauxhall Station also has a column in The Telegraph…

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments