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A barrister. Catholic. Read PPE once upon a time.

Katılım Haziran 2020
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New post! It's all about the under-rated 1993 film, Demolition Man. Any film that has both Sylvester Stallone and Nigel Hawthorne in it can't be bad, and if we add in Sandra Bullock and Wesley Snipes then it's surely a classic. Well, read on ... (link below).
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@LiamMurray Yes. He is a great example of someone who has been revealed by social media as actually knowing what he is talking about. Not many such cases
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Dan Neidle has been the go to person - for both the left & right - over the last few years thanks to his reputation for fairness and thoroughness. To see people turning on him now because he had the temerity to disagree with someone say more about them than him.
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@ladygreenkirtle Yes. I had this with my edition of Tess recently. Also you need two bookmarks (or an awkward little finger), and all for something that says "See Genesis 1".
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I would ban books from having end notes, because I’m incapable of not turning to the back to see what they are, and then they turn out to be something incredibly obvious like an explanation of what the House of Commons is, and then I’ve forgotten what’s happening in the story.
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Tell me the last good book you read. Fiction.
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@arbuthnotting Yes! When I went up to read PPE my father would say that to me. Also "I refute him thus!" Beerbohm's Christmas parodies are some of my all-time favourites. Do you know them?
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@FurtherOr Wonderful. I've read it before, but thanks for the spur to reread today. (Tho' my favourite minor figure is Oliver Edwards: "You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.")
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@si_rubinstein @DPJHodges "A bluff, red-haired spokesman for Anne Boleyn's family (who did not wish to be named) said that they did not want her death to be politicised nor made the subject of 300 TV dramas and historical novels."
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What happens, @DPJHodges, when members of a grieving family of a murder victim have conflicting ideas about whether & how to ‘politicise’ that murder? Perhaps it would be easier if each family had a spokesman or ‘patriarch’ to determine its collective will.
Nigel Forrester@NigelForrester9

The nephew and his wife were at the ceremony interacting with Reform politicians. Is the source simply made up? Or perhaps something ridiculous like a second cousin?

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I'm seeing a lot of "Argentina is great" content (and a good thing too - I defer to no-one in my admiration for the wonderful Anglophile, Borges), but for some reason not the old joke: what do you call an Italian who speaks Spanish and thinks he's English?
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Charlotte Gill
Charlotte Gill@CharlotteCGill·
3 years alcohol free today 🧘‍♀️ I was a heavy drinker and had just had enough Giving up alcohol is hard but it did really change me - I would have never started my research without it! My brain needed a new hobby. If you want to give up my advice is there’s never a good time. You don’t need a magic lightbulb moment. Sometimes you can just feel ghastly and that’s enough.
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Contemporary country home in Provence formerly owned by #Boulez for sale! Includes what's described as a 100m2 'crypte sonore' which might be used as a cellar. Yours for 1.1 million euros
Radio Classique@radioclassique

Pierre Boulez fit construire cette superbe propriété à la fin des années 70 par l’architecte Odette Ducarre. La maison est de nouveau sur le marché, douze ans après une première mise en vente 👇 trib.al/RkEjKl4

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@paulpowlesland Who is more likely to persuade - who is more likely to find converts - the guy who thinks caring means boundless energy and love, or the guys who think caring means stabbing effigies of humans in the eye? Such a bizarre juxtaposition on my timeline this morning.
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@paulpowlesland, in one tweet, shows respect, care and optimism. Perhaps you're a bit sceptical of tree-hugging environmentalism, but you can see that he's a human, with values, and that we might find common ground, or at least be able to disagree in good faith.
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How to do it (1) and how not to do it (2). (1) @paulpowlesland is campaigning for a clean river by lobbying an elected politician. (I like clean rivers, but that's the way to campaign for dirty rivers too, if that's your thing.) (2) Stabbing an effigy of Burnham with darts.
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Nicole Lampert
Nicole Lampert@nicolelampert·
Green Party sickness. Here are some activists for the Green Party - the ruling party in Hackney - stabbing an effigy of Andy Burnham with a dart in the face and eye. They did this outside Hackney town hall with Green councillors watching. They are angry Burnham has affirmed the Supreme Court ruling that you cannot change your biological sex. Did no one think this was a particularly stupid idea a few days after a former MP was murdered? Full story from @thetimes 👇🏼
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@PeruvianMagnum Like William Hague - somehow acts being physically small. The Hague judo thing was somehow risible, and I find it hard to believe he could beat me up.
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Perhaps it's a time thing. 25 years is too recent to be a classic but not new and exciting. Perhaps its time will come again, like those mid-century British women writers whose small, accomplished books are being revived now.
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It's not perfect. The title is a bit of a groan-y pun, and that's a clue that it's not 100%. It's not as broad as AFB, yet has a "much the same-ness" to it (Parsis in Bombay; sadness). But it is a proper literary novel, not gimmicky or modish, and it deserves better.
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I bought this book from a second hand shop not long ago. I read A Fine Balance, and loved it, so I was pleased to find another Mistry. It's really very good - as the quotes from Updike etc on the cover say - but it got me thinking.
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