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David Benedict

@eggsbened.bsky.social

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Cultural talk and typing. And singing. Biographer of Stephen Sondheim. Variety, London theatre critic. The Stage, Associate writer. Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers. Somewhat gay.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 3h

Brimming with light-hearted joie de vivre and crammed with gags?

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 4h

There may have been a drop-off in delights. I lived off Ken High St in the 80s. No longer.

David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 5h

You were middling? An improvement on fair.

David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 12h

Damn: I changed my mind at 3. It was an either/or
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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 17h

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 17h

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#GoodLuckESLers

David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 19h

Hence my piece.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

In which she gave her Cleopatra, Queen of Denial.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. Know that story.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

One of those people whose every patronising utterance, permanently on the edge of exasperation for having had her speech interrupted, betrays the fact the she considers listening to be fundamentally unimportant.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

The concept of imaginative thinking - of which they are a) incapable and b) scared - is to be crushed.

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 2d

Epic; no notes

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

Her degree was in computer science engineering. Politicians like Kemi are terrified of imaginative thinking as encouraged by arts/humanities because they're incapable of it.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

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I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

Less of an opinion piece, more a death notice...

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

It’s Tory conference: Boris-wave goodbye to a deluded party on its way to electoral annihilation | Marina Hyde

When both Reform and the Liberal Democrats are eating your lunch, and even Nadine Dorries has abandoned ship, it might just be time to call it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

I know them (and, following that piece, now her) well.
Am particularly fond of this:
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Barb Jungr - Waterloo Sunset

YouTube video by Linn Records

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

There had to be a reason why we are friends. www.theguardian.com/theobserver/...

Why Barb is better than Bob's bark

Why listen to Dylan's wailing when you can hear such wonderful covers of his songs?

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know what you mean.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

And then there’s this from the 1960s bargain label MfP: Music for Pleasure. It’ve very much a highlights disc but note the cast. Routledge sings the hell out of mountain-climbing.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 3d

Billy Wilder once said about leaving Germany: all the pessimists I knew now have swimming pools; all the optimists I knew are dead.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

On the other hand… youtu.be/dqURdediIq0

June Allyson "When" The Opposite Sex

YouTube video by MrShowbizman

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 2d

My dangerous Blue Peter stunt was making a kaleidoscope with Christmas cards, two handbag mirrors, two piece of cork and a cardboard box covered in, but you guessed this, sticky-backed plastic.