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jameshandscombe.bsky.social
Executive Principal, Mathematician, Teacher, Wordsmith not necessarily in that order.
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Enjoying Saturday Live this morning - Robert Macfarlane’s watery inheritance tracks and a love affair with the tors of Dartmoor. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Very good article. Shamima Begum and others like her are as British as me, if not more so. She should be brought home and face a fair trial.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

#FridayFive is Wolf Alice. I think they deserve one. Pay attention to order this week. 1. Delicious Things. 2. Last Man on Earth. 3. Don't Delete the Kisses. 4. No Hard Feelings. 5. Bros.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Only at HWSF would Y13 shirt signing get gatecrashed by Jacob Rees Mogg (to the delight of the students and, I imagine, causing a degree of perplexity in the politician). This is what I said to see them off before being so ruthlessly upstaged: james-handscombe.co.uk/legacy/the-g...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

A thread of different versions of "Rainbow Connection" just because. Kermit himself, recorded during the pandemic. /1 youtu.be/jS5fTzMP_mg?...

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction no longer exists.” I think one of the ways we blur this distinction is to say that if you can’t measure a distinction it doesn’t exist.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll take the cutting migration idea seriously the day a politician actually outlines a serious budgeted plan for training British-born workers for the skills we’re short of, and housing them in the places where they’re needed. Until then it’s just the worst kind of blame-shifting propaganda

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments