David Scourfield
@jhdscourfield.bsky.social
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Classicist and Modernist, Em. Prof. Working on a monograph on E. M. Forster and Classics, and a new edition of his novel The Longest Journey for Cambridge UP. Welsh/Irish.
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The episcopal gloves are off.
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The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth
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What with this and his notions on the Sentencing Council, I'm thinking Jenrick's leadership ambitions are positioning him to the right of Farage.

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood
Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit
www.theguardian.com
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Probably of limited use for finding the best nightclubs!
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Not me, unfortunately. Report on the conference awaited with interest!
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Whose Seventh? Beethoven? Sibelius? Bruckner?
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Honestly, we need Flann O'Brien back among us.
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
So there's an EU-funded campaign to get millenials to eat potatoes and - I swear to Jesus I'm not making this up - it's slogan is: "Europe's favourite since 1536."
A screenshot of a website that says "DISCOVER THE TASTY VERSATILITY OF POTATOES! Europe's favourite since 1536." banner ads say "funded by the european union" and "enjoy - it's from europe."
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Women are basically another out-group in that cult. I'd like to engage them on the theology of priesthood! ('The what ...?')
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Probably needs more coaching on procedural issues than the Clerk of Dáil Éireann and the other clerks have time for ...
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Today's new arrival -- an extraordinary 1000-page achievement by a dear friend of many years, and indispensable for a piece of work I'm busy with right now!
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It's OK, I think of him as Ron in Latin and Jerry in English.
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The Beatles can't have seen any of Picasso's paintings because he wasn't dead yet when they had all their hits.
markwalsh.bsky.social
I wouldn’t say “impossible” as such.
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Discat primum psalterium, his se canticis avocet.
(Jerome, Letter 107.12.1, to Laeta)
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30th September is the feast of St Jerome who is here depicted as translator of the Psalms
#StJerome
BnF MS Latin 1152; Psalter of Charles the Bald; 9th century (between 842 CE & 869 CE); School of the Palace of Charles the Bald; f.4r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
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Delighted to discover this morning that Alfred Tennyson, grandson of the poet, had the middle name Browning.
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'Perhaps surprisingly comic.' As if the blessed Virginia isn't actually very funny even in the course of her most serious novels, not to mention the diaries, etc.

‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published
A chance discovery at a country house revealed the three funny – sometimes surreal – interlinked tales, written almost a decade before Woolf’s first book was published
www.theguardian.com