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Native Londoner, long-time Cairene, now living DK. Citizen of Nowhere par excellence. Live by the written word. Lifelong close reader: originally Greek/Latin, then Wittgenstein, then medieval ceremonial architecture in Mamluk Cairo, now back to Eng Lit.
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The Israeli airforce and bulldozers demolished 100 multi-storey buildings in Gaza over the last 72 hours.

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Oh god. Look at this.

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The Middle English Text Series (METS) has been a boon for Arthurian studies. Recent cuts to NEH grants have severely hindered its ability to continue. Read more and donate here: metseditions.org/donate .

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WTAF

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Happy 113th birthday to the Rite Of Spring, so it’s time for me to watch the Joffrey Ballet’s version for the umpteenth time and bawl my eyes out over breakfast youtu.be/jo4sf2wT0wU?...

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Please watch and share.

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I wrote this about AI. We hear a lot about the importance of the "human touch" in the age of of machine intelligence. But the depressing truth is a lot of people just love AI slop. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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Decent politicians need to push back against Farage's comments on Lucy Connelly. "millions of mothers after Southport feeling exactly the same way"? No. Millions did NOT feel the need to call for mass murder of asylum seekers & we simply cannot allow the idea to be normalised.

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No possible forgiveness.

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Strong language from Gideon Rachman: for European governments, Israeli justification for blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza is "horrifying sophistry." Europe needs to keep up the pressure on Netanyahu www.ft.com/content/548d... via @ft

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How racism works.

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Quite a thing - as any student of judicial politics will tell you - for a letter to be signed both by former supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption and by former appeal judge Stephen Sedley. They are about as far apart in their judicial outlooks as possible. lawyersletter.uk#signatories

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Just read this.

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25th May is the Feast day of Bede. Here is an initial 'B'(ritannia) with the head of a hybrid & a roundel depicting the head of a monk (Bede?) at the start of Bk 1. BL Add MS 38817; 12th century; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; England (Kirkham); f.6r

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It’s the feast of Bede today.

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Oh this is shaming. And ghastly.

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Real profiles in courage here. Donald Trump's administration is waging war, on numerous fronts, against America's core values of individual liberty, private enterprise, and openness.

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Exactly. In no world, is the answer. My God.

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What the fuck is the world doing standing idly by watching this genocidal cruelty? It what world is this ever acceptable? Heartbroken 💔 news.sky.com/story/nine-o...

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snaca, m/f.n: snake, reptile, perhaps even a scorpion. (SNAH-ka / ˈsna-ka) Image: Boa in the Aberdeen Bestiary; England, c. 1200; @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social MS 24, f. 69r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

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☎️ “Call your allies when they violate the rules of war and demand that they stop. The moment to pick up the phone is now” @icrc.org president told Security Council today www.icrc.org/en/statement...

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“Your state may not be at war today. Your family may be far from frontlines. But tides turn. New conflicts erupt. And if you do not defend the rules of war today, you are accepting a world where wars are fought with increasing barbarity and disregard for our shared humanity.”

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Yes. This is sort-of academic Armageddon.

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Absolutely necessary read, by Alex de Waal: Starvation in Gaza www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

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And @righttoroam.bsky.social has won!! The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camping on Dartmoor 🎉👏. Huge congratulations to all involved! Now Government must step up & pass a comprehensive Right to Roam Act, to protect & extend public rights of access to nature across England

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Israeli forces by opened fire towards an EU delegation on an approved visit to #Jenin in the #WestBank earlier today. The IDF said they were approaching an area they weren’t allowed to be, so “warning shots” were fired AT EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS.

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