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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 11h

Showtime!

James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 11h

Off to watch a play I’ve never seen before, in one of the 4 remaining medieval round churches. Should be a good experience.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 12h

I’d agree. If you’re studying theology, the odds probably are that you’re going into the church. Or teaching.

James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 12h

What with all the Deliveroo discourse on here recently, I’m tempted to go to see this, despite the rather inconvenient scheduling.

Northampton Filmhouse @nnfilmhouse.bsky.social · 12h

ON SALE NOW: Soulemane's Story (World Cinema Season)

Boris Lojkine’s portrait of a modern migrant propels us into the precarious world of an otherwise invisible man.

Sat 1 November 3:30pm
Sun 2 November 4:15pm
https://northamptonfilmhouse.com/films/souleymanes-story/

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 13h

Turns out having 4 Lions back improves a side.

Talking Rugby Union @talkrugbyunion.bsky.social · 1d

Redemption mode 🔛

The 'sour taste' of last year's 33-0 home defeat to Leicester is fuelling Northampton ahead of Prem Rugby derby weekend...

✍️ Earlier this week, Elizabeth Cartwright heard from the Saints: www.talkingrugbyunion.co.uk/-sour-taste-...

📸 Northampton Saints

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Lizzie Speller @l1zz1e.bsky.social · Aug 25

Michael Bywater d.yesterday after three tough years with Lewy Body Dementia. Never a linear man he was columnist,author, tutor, organist,cook. Flew alone across Australia, drove through Europe with his dog,read Medicine @corpuscambridge.bsky.social before switching to English. @the-independent.com.

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Lizzie Speller @l1zz1e.bsky.social · Dec 16

Michael Bywater, author, columnist, snappy dresser, superb organist and cook, brother of 500 siblings, now lives in a v good care home in Cambridge. He has Lewy-Body dementia and, Parkinson’s. He would have loved to have written a column on it! His wit endures. Help from the RLF has been invaluable.

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · Feb 27

Having just finished the dark, funny, lacerating, spectacularly bleak New York / Hollywood satire KAROO by Steve Tesich, I need to take a moment for it all to land. But in the meantime, here’s an excellent essay about it by Michael Bywater in the New Humanist newhumanist.org.uk/articles/150...

Karoo by Steve Tesich

Michael Bywater rediscovers a masterly comic tragedy

newhumanist.org.uk

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 13h

I was having a coffee with a friend a few weeks ago who’d worked at the BBC with Tony Harrison, and how much more horrible dementia diagnoses seem when afflicting such rare and sparkling minds.

James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 13h

The other column we’d talk about with relish was Willie Donaldson’s. Michael was a twitter mutual of mine, until he deleted his account. I thought it was because of the decline in the platform, but it may have been the Lewy body dementia.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve only just found out that Michael Bywater has died, by seeing the Telegraph obituary. Really sad news, in the days when he wrote for the Indy, his was one of the few columns we’d talk about in the pub.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/comme...

Michael Bywater: Meet the real Dirk Gently. It's me...

I was on the telly. BBC4, last Thursday, 9pm. Didn't watch it, of course, and it wasn't really me anyway. But I read the book. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Actually I'm in the book. Didn't...

www.independent.co.uk

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve not watched this, but Alan Carr is a local legend. I enjoyed reading such a positive review.

www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Why Alan Carr is all of us in The Celebrity Traitors

With his sweat-drenched, awkward performance as an unlikely backstabber, the comedian is the unrivalled highlight of the star-studded new series, writes Helen Coffey

www.independent.co.uk

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 16h

The Fahrenheit Thermometer in Gdańsk, in honour of the scale’s inventor, features two important design choices:

- What did Daniel Fahrenheit look like? We don’t know but we’re guessing “ripped”

- look we have to put Celsius on the scale as well or people won’t understand it otherwise

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🥑🗽🏗🏘️ Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂•5H₂O @gaylussite.himbonomics.com · 16h

unwrapping new french prime ministers like mystery labubu boxes 💖

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 16h

I heard some allegations about him from someone who used to work at the Conservative Club. But yes, rumours aren’t compelling evidence. (I heard worse stories about another significant Tory councillor.)

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Northampton Filmhouse @nnfilmhouse.bsky.social · 2d

FROM FRIDAY: I Swear (15)

“Empathetic, funny and myth-busting, it gives you permission to laugh at the situation while feeling only compassion for the man.” ★★★★ Time Out

From Fri 10 October
https://northamptonfilmhouse.com/films/i-swear/

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 17h

This is a great article about legal history.

Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

Blasphemy is in the news today after Hamit Coskun's conviction for burning the Qur'an was quashed.

I've written an article on what people get wrong about the old blasphemy law and why things have changed less than you might think:

pagesfromahistoriansnotebook.substack.com/p/the-old-an...

The old and new blasphemy law

It was never about God

pagesfromahistoriansnotebook.substack.com

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 17h

Ahah. I’ve still got a FB alt for groups I’m interested in, and the occasional row on the Chronic’s page. Wondering how former Cllr Larratt’s court case will turn out.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, but I was a bit potty even before I got a Twitter account. Being on here is actually a handbrake, I find.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 17h

I was more thinking about their Facebook page these days, but yes.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 17h

He was always a bit potty. Like that Capel Lofft specimen. Too much twitter has driven them completely round the twist.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 18h

X is not doing anything to prevent the mad, horrible people from spreading hate-they should be prosecuted under this law.

James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 18h

Another reason to get regulated advice when you’re thinking about doing something with your life savings.

James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 18h

The platforms should be legally responsible for what they publish.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 18h

@jakeblackburn.bsky.social can verify that.

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