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Tony Earnshaw
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Scriptwriter, poet, novelist, sax player, choral singer

I’m just an ordinary bloke.
So, when I see there’s folk who haven’t got enough,
I care. I give a stuff.
This seems to mean I’m woke.
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My issue is about neatly packaging a belief system and expecting me to buy the package. I can’t do it.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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‘What we can’t know is liberating … long live vagueness, muddle, compromise – and liberation and inspiration.’

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November 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Gay or straight, black, brown, or white, male or female or neither, she simply didn’t care…because it didn’t matter to her and she didn’t think it should matter to anyone else.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Parkin pigs and plot toffee, trick or treat and mischief. Which traditions persist?
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November 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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A poem for today
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October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Poets from Keats to Yeats have written about Autumn but how many of them swept leaves?
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October 31, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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The thoughts and questions you can almost see emerging from the minds of people after the show like a cloud of ideas eager to be grasped…

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October 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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‘You can’t be human all by yourself’ - wisdom from Africa

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October 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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On time, enjoying the moment, and the joys of retirement

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October 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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On rotten tomatoes, rants, and the misuse of flags
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September 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Beanstalks and Othering, used cars and titans of industry
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September 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Connections made and restored – faith in love
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September 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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To quote the director ' fifteen years after it was first written, and ten years after Damn Cheek first performed this version – this powerful play still retains its poignant and apposite topicality.' More info on www.ticketsource.co.uk/damn-cheek-p... - you do need to be near Dorking of course...
September 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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The power of theatre, the move to address a difficult past, and the continuing evidence of man’s inhumanity to man. Much food for thought
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September 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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I’ve written before about it being okay to feel joy, even when there is so much suffering in the world. Actually, it’s more than okay, it’s a need.
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August 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Finding the silence between the notes the importance of community
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August 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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A focus on peace
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August 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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From the pain of separation to finding new pastures

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August 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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a reminder that we have a choice
to find the positive or to fall

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August 1, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Happily ever after? – “she told her father again and again
she’d bravely enter the monster’s lair”
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July 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Today’s Pied Piper – his uses and dangers…
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July 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Should MPs who vote with their conscience be bullied by their churches?

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July 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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At Leith Hill Place last week we read poems for refugee week while world powers seemed intent on waging war, creating more refugees. – “All I wanted was a better life tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/a-better-l...

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June 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Refugee Week- we can mourn people having to flee their homes, being exploited, facing hostility - but also celebrate shared humanity, new ideas, customs, food, and friends
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June 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Impressions of Ithaca - peace, beauty, Odysseus

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June 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM