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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 11h

Almost totally forgotten, shows what some people can get away with.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 11h

As Phil said this evening, ‘well, it’s Bowie’. And Bowie also got a free pass for his coke-addled Nazi-positive rants.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 11h

Phil Wang did a section on how racist Bowie’s ‘China Girl’ was. Having gone to YouTube to check. Well, yes.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 12h

To the art deco glories of the Old Savoy this evening to see Phil Wang⁠, Ivo Graham⁠, Rachel Parris⁠
& Thanyia Moore⁠. Phil Wang⁠ I was already a fan of, Thanyia Moore⁠ is new to me but really good.

The stage ready for the show- not so easy to photograph on a phone

Showing some of the art deco signage throughout the building, which is surprisingly unaltered.

The original 1920s clock at the back of the auditorium

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🥑🗽🏗🏘️ Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂•5H₂O @gaylussite.himbonomics.com · 1d

saw a preview screening of I Swear this evening, before general release tomorrow

it’s a biopic about John Davidson, who developed a severe form of Tourette syndrome as a young boy in Scotland in the 80s, when acceptance and understanding were almost non-existent

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Stuart McDonald @actuarybyday.bsky.social · 18h

What if ageing isn’t the problem - but our systems are?

My new blog explores how changing #demographics is affecting retirement, #health, and the economy.

The question is not whether demographic trends will reshape our world – it’s how we will choose to respond.
🔗 www.lcp.com/en/insights/...

Beyond the numbers: How demographic change is rewriting the rules of retirement, health and growth

Explore how demographic change is reshaping health, pensions, and the economy, with key insights from Beyond Curious season 4.

www.lcp.com

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Henry Jeffreys @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social · 9d

Wrote a thing about the brilliant doc on from Chateau Chunder. Despite only being from 2012, it seems like it comes from another age. henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/chateau-ch...

Chateau Chunder revisited

"It used to be double tequilas that could prise off the pants of sheilas but now they won't give it away, no way!, for less than a large chardonnay."

henryjeffreys.substack.com

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 2d

I am thinking of you because I am sad.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 23h

This is just the sort of television that they don't make any more - there's now a strong aversion to "talking heads". But if the heads are interesting enough, there is nothing more riveting. #philsky

BBC4 is repeating Bryan Magee's series The Great Philosophers

Good news. BBC4 is repeating Bryan Magee's 1987 television series The Great Philosophers . The first three programmes – on Plato, Aristotle ...

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 1d

My website has a page for my work in #cricket – stories from the global game that never make the headlines:

🏏 Writing for the Wisden Almanack and others;
🏏 A book, Getting Out, about Ukrainian cricket;
🏏 Podcasts, talks & interviews.

See, hire and connect with me here ⬇️
jonathancampion.com/cricket

CRICKET

My first book Getting Out: The Ukrainian Cricket Team’s Last Stand on the Front Lines of War was published in 2024. Getting Out is the story of how Ukraine’s cricketers helped the peopl…

jonathancampion.com

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 22h

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The Choir with No Name @choirwithnoname.bsky.social · 23h

It’s #WorldHomelessDay 💛 Our Birmingham choir raised the roof in Northampton last night to celebrate and launch a new local programme! Proud to keep growing the power of music and community across the UK. 🎶 #MusicChangesLives #Community

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

This is maybe my least pro-market position: the good thing about drinking in a pub is there is an adult who can cut you off, something which cannot happen when you are drinking alone with the booze you bought at Tesco.

Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 2d

Should go further and tax supermarket beer at a higher rate than at the moment- raises revenue, targets the biggest source of binge drinking and might help get people back into pubs.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 23h

“I started with the first: Cheer Up. Doom isn’t doing you any good.

The second: Be brave. Notice that half the appeal of populism is in its ambition and its confidence.”

Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

My hero is a farmer, not a duck. Which will only make sense if you read this new piece by me, the start of a new substack which I am bravely calling How To Run A Country.

howtorunacountry.substack.com/p/its-the-de...

It’s the despair that’s going to kill us

Time to cheer up

howtorunacountry.substack.com

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Michael Shallcross @michaelshallcross.bsky.social · 23h

Interesting piece, this. Unlike his friend, Kingsley Amis, Burgess is sharply critical of Thatcher, for inducting a social philosophy that suggests '[t]here is something criminal about being poor'. He also warns, unheeded, that education should never 'be considered in terms of a market economy'...

International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 1d

On this week’s newsletter: 100 years of the Iron Lady. Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange) assesses Margaret Thatcher’s premiership. But what does he make of the her?

Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/a-woman-wh...

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, it’s certainly a public order offence. Hope he gets some porridge, he’ll be popular inside.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 1d

Worth seeing his little face when the kirpans come out.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. Try setting fire to it in front of the Gurdwara and see what sort of reaction you get.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 1d

The Guru Granth Sahib is considered sacred too.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps the Kennedys are oviparous.

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, maybe. I didn’t go there much. I remember buying Guinness and not staying long because it was too crowded. But that was some time ago.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2d

Am game for this if I can play a Tory loyalist who won't fight and knows deep down that if we fail to gain independence, we'll end up no worse than Canada, a commonwealth entity with better health care, a lower poverty rate and relatively sane, coherent politics. God Save The King.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2d

What does it take to be a Revolutionary War reenactor? Caity Weaver traveled across New England and to New York’s Fort Ticonderoga, put on period clothing, and shot a musket to find out:

Into the Breeches

What it takes to be a Revolutionary War reenactor

bit.ly

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 1d

Cogenhoe.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 1d

It’s all ancient history ofc but I’m curious, I can’t think of another bar round there where you could get something decent from the hand pump. (Having read this I know it’s all fnarr fnarr but can’t be bothered to amend anything.)

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 1d

That’s grim reading.

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