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The Umbrella Centre in Whitstable is such a fab place. So I'm supporting them by donating my time to teach a series of free stand-up workshops, starting on 20 February. In case you're interested, here's the booking link: www.tickettailor.com/events/whits...

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Today the flags fly in Finland to celebrate Runeberg Day in honour of the national poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, who was born on this day in 1804, which we mark by eating delicious Runeberg tortes: finland.fi/arts-culture...

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Every day, I wake up. ‘What’s he said now?’ ‘Who’s he threatened now?’ The fucker. We’re not even three weeks in. What do we do?

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Fucking psycho.

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Hey, Canada. Sending loads of love and respect. Yours, Kent, England. 🤛

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Oh yeah, who needs languages eh? Thick as mince. inews.co.uk/news/univers...

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This from the Kent Live website. When do you think Sir Keir will take his thumb out of his mouth on this one?

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www.bbc.com/culture/arti...?

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Have your say: How do you feel about the Brexit five years on - Please vote! www.kentlive.news/news/uk-worl...

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Every time you don't buy a book from Amazon, but use a good indie store who actually values the sale & treats you & your purchase with respect, the sun shines brighter, floofy puppies gambol in fresher grass, & Jeff Bezos's piles sting for just a biiiit longer. Sounds GREAT to me. Buy independent.

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A brave and urgent column by the Labour MP Clive Lewis - @labourlewis.bsky.social - calling on his own party to stop appeasing capital and work on behalf of people and the living world. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 27 days ago • 40 comments

Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...

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Reading some of the later campus novels in tribute to the late, great David Lodge. The world of Higher Education pictured in them, even in the relatively recent ‘Deaf Sentence’, is unrecognisable when compared to the denuded, apocalyptic landscape of today.

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Look, Rachel. And Labour in general. You’re never going to please them. Never. Nothing you do will make the right-wing media happy or keep them quiet. Nothing. So, instead of trying to appease lunatic ‘journalists’ and their oligarch puppeteers, why not do right by the country and planet instead?

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Here's something that arts funding bodies such as Arts Council England could really learn from academic research councils and trusts (AHRC etc.). Have a two-stage selection process. For those that get through the first stage: send the applicants some feedback and questions for clarification. 1/2

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Now at the point where if an app or website asks me to sign back in, I just give up and have a cup of tea instead.

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This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?

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If ever there was the perfect oxymoron, then Rachel Reeves’s the ‘non-dom community’ is right up there.

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I expected to be disappointed by this Government. But the levels of disappointment currently being experienced are…disappointing.

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Leaving aside all the Wallace stuff for a moment: this is the best series of Master Chef: the Professionals I’ve ever seen. It’s the obvious love, affection and respect that the final five have for each other. They’ve become great mates. That lifts the thing to a whole new level. Loving it.

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Please take a look at the Call for Chapters for a new academic book, Shakespeare: New Voices. #drama #performance #postcolonial #literature #renaissance #queer #lgbt #feminism #ecocriticism #woke #bardolatry #pedagogy #TeamEnglish #edchat #appropriation call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/05/...

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Great piece on UK (mostly English) accent discrimination here featuring lots of our favourite linguists. If you're looking for an accessible overview for A level, here it is. BBC News - UK's hierarchy of accents: 'I thought mine made me sound stupid' www.bbc.com/news/article...

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George Monbiot, once again, taking on an issue that’s been preoccupying me for a while, and articulating its difficulties and nuances far better than I could have.

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Se oli historiasta hyvin tuttu natsitervehdys. Jonka Muskoviitti peräti toisti. Ei tästä ole mitään epäselvyyttä. Kyllä hän tiesi ihan tarkalleen, mitä oli tekemässä.

submitted 37 days ago • 16 comments

Wise words here from Emma Beddington in today's @theguardian.com on coping with the 95 days of January.

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Monbiot spot on here. Again.

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Been reading some interesting analysis of the use of the word ‘Britain’ and ‘British’ in media discourse. Almost exclusively, it is applied to England only. Anything outside of England on the island of Britain is Scotland/Scottish or Wales/Welsh. So ‘Britain’ is just England. Lots of implications.

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Great advice on writing here from the late, great David Lynch.

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An extremely important and accurate thread. This issue is the only show in town.

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The Umbrella Centre in Whitstable is such a fab place. So I'm supporting them by donating my time to teach a series of free stand-up workshops, starting on 20 February. In case you're interested, here's the booking link: www.tickettailor.com/events/whits...

Today the flags fly in Finland to celebrate Runeberg Day in honour of the national poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, who was born on this day in 1804, which we mark by eating delicious Runeberg tortes: finland.fi/arts-culture...

Every day, I wake up. ‘What’s he said now?’ ‘Who’s he threatened now?’ The fucker. We’re not even three weeks in. What do we do?

Fucking psycho.

Hey, Canada. Sending loads of love and respect. Yours, Kent, England. 🤛

Oh yeah, who needs languages eh? Thick as mince. inews.co.uk/news/univers...

This from the Kent Live website. When do you think Sir Keir will take his thumb out of his mouth on this one?

www.bbc.com/culture/arti...?

Have your say: How do you feel about the Brexit five years on - Please vote! www.kentlive.news/news/uk-worl...

Every time you don't buy a book from Amazon, but use a good indie store who actually values the sale & treats you & your purchase with respect, the sun shines brighter, floofy puppies gambol in fresher grass, & Jeff Bezos's piles sting for just a biiiit longer. Sounds GREAT to me. Buy independent.

A brave and urgent column by the Labour MP Clive Lewis - @labourlewis.bsky.social - calling on his own party to stop appeasing capital and work on behalf of people and the living world. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...

Reading some of the later campus novels in tribute to the late, great David Lodge. The world of Higher Education pictured in them, even in the relatively recent ‘Deaf Sentence’, is unrecognisable when compared to the denuded, apocalyptic landscape of today.

Here's something that arts funding bodies such as Arts Council England could really learn from academic research councils and trusts (AHRC etc.). Have a two-stage selection process. For those that get through the first stage: send the applicants some feedback and questions for clarification. 1/2

Now at the point where if an app or website asks me to sign back in, I just give up and have a cup of tea instead.

This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?

If ever there was the perfect oxymoron, then Rachel Reeves’s the ‘non-dom community’ is right up there.

I expected to be disappointed by this Government. But the levels of disappointment currently being experienced are…disappointing.

Leaving aside all the Wallace stuff for a moment: this is the best series of Master Chef: the Professionals I’ve ever seen. It’s the obvious love, affection and respect that the final five have for each other. They’ve become great mates. That lifts the thing to a whole new level. Loving it.

Please take a look at the Call for Chapters for a new academic book, Shakespeare: New Voices. #drama #performance #postcolonial #literature #renaissance #queer #lgbt #feminism #ecocriticism #woke #bardolatry #pedagogy #TeamEnglish #edchat #appropriation call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/05/...

Great piece on UK (mostly English) accent discrimination here featuring lots of our favourite linguists. If you're looking for an accessible overview for A level, here it is. BBC News - UK's hierarchy of accents: 'I thought mine made me sound stupid' www.bbc.com/news/article...

George Monbiot, once again, taking on an issue that’s been preoccupying me for a while, and articulating its difficulties and nuances far better than I could have.

Se oli historiasta hyvin tuttu natsitervehdys. Jonka Muskoviitti peräti toisti. Ei tästä ole mitään epäselvyyttä. Kyllä hän tiesi ihan tarkalleen, mitä oli tekemässä.

Wise words here from Emma Beddington in today's @theguardian.com on coping with the 95 days of January.

Monbiot spot on here. Again.

Great advice on writing here from the late, great David Lynch.

An extremely important and accurate thread. This issue is the only show in town.

Off to this at the @[email protected] in that London to talk fictional minds with A-level Lang/Lit teachers. To the Stylistics Special!!

So what sort of ‘free speech’ is it that is threatened by fact checking?

This letter in the New Statesman a couple of years ago seems even truer now.