Jackie Goode
jackiegoode.bsky.social
Jackie Goode
@jackiegoode.bsky.social

Visiting Fellow in Qualitative Research, ‘Clever Girls: autoethnographies of class, gender and ethnicity’; Crafting Autoethnography: Processes and Practices of Making Self and Culture'. Currently writing about being an older woman. .. more

Education 21%
Political science 19%

I saw this one in Siena in the summer. You can make out the words someone wrote on it at the bottom: ‘The British no longer sing’.

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My essay about the joy of the night train is up on The Winding Trail, a long read for a lazy Saturday or Sunday morning, dreaming about adventures past and journeys to come…

the-winding-trail.com/2025/07/25/t...

It’s so kind of you to offer me such a warm welcome - thank you!

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New episode up now. Transit by Rachel Cusk, and the Outline trilogy as a whole, discussed by Andy, Una and Nicky. @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1c43...
Transit and the Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk
open.spotify.com

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Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

Oh, thank you so much!

Can’t find any information on this painting in Volterra museum by Cosimo Daddi, called ‘Madonna and Child between Saints Paul and Lucy’. Can any Arts folk out there explain the eyes in the dish?

Maxine Peake and Samuel Barnett both absolutely superb in The Last Stand of Mrs Mary Whitehouse at Nottingham Playhouse tonight. Catch it if you can.
Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
www.theguardian.com
Pritzker: Trump looked at the cameras and asked for me personally to say, Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago.

Your remarks about this effort have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties

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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Armando Iannucci recommends
The Ballad of Wallis Island.
So do I!
Out to buy now and still in some independent cinemas. Really worth seeing on a big screen if you can.
Strong Message Here - Strong Recommend: The Ballad of Wallis Island - BBC Sounds
The first in a series of cultural recommendations from the hosts of Strong Message Here.
www.bbc.co.uk
Again: shock.

Honoured to have given Keynote address at BSA Auto/biography Conference, here with colleagues and friends Mark Price, Jan Bradford behind the camera.
Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

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Four years late to this - No Suprises

(Kindly posted by Juan Francisco Padilla, the guitarist) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yUT...
SYMPHONIC RADIOHEAD - NO SURPRISES
YouTube video by jfpadilla
www.youtube.com

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A bit late to this, but a brilliant essay by @iammilliam.bsky.social on suburbia in literature. He should write a book on the subject, and it would be a great book, and he’d get a microscopic advance for it because publishing sucks.
"When suburbia features in British fiction, if it features at all, it is usually as somewhere that isn’t the countryside and isn’t the city, a location which only exists to be escaped from."

@iammilliam.bsky.social

www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/millions-u...
Millions unlike us: looking for suburbia in British fiction
Andy Miller on stories from the suburb that deserve to be told
www.boundlessmagazine.com
Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

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Fuck it. I'm going to give away 100 books. If you'd like one of these, signed, email yr address to hello@tom-cox.com. All I ask is that you give me the postage (£4 UK). If you can give me more, brilliant. If not, no probs.

Stephen Fry called this "hilarious.". I think it's my best non-fiction book.

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Bit of a cheat perhaps as this is ‘Porta Pispini’ - one of the seven city gates in Siena.

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You can read the rest here: tomcox.substack.com/p/can-you-pl...

Just spotted in a shop in Siena

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"I knew I shouldn't have taken the goddam road less traveled!" -- Frost in England, 1957

I LOVED this essay. It discusses something I’ve felt deeply, referenced so many of the books/authors I love and made me laugh out loud.
A bit late to this, but a brilliant essay by @iammilliam.bsky.social on suburbia in literature. He should write a book on the subject, and it would be a great book, and he’d get a microscopic advance for it because publishing sucks.
"When suburbia features in British fiction, if it features at all, it is usually as somewhere that isn’t the countryside and isn’t the city, a location which only exists to be escaped from."

@iammilliam.bsky.social

www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/millions-u...

Are you in Umbria?

Or ‘vedremo’ as we say here in Italy.. !

Of course. Publisher lined up?

Hi Patrick, how’s it going on that front?