Tom Shakespeare

@tomshakespeare.bsky.social

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Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link

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Sir Thomas William Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet, is an English sociologist and bioethicist. He has achondroplasia and uses a wheelchair.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · Jun 10

Please order The Ends: "exit, pursued by a polar bear" - I've even written the headline for your review. Hope you are enjoying the book: it's a laugh, but also about the climate crisis.

Cover of 'The Ends' featuring the hero, Fred, being pursued by a voracious polar bear.

Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 4h

There was a last minute lot of an illuminated picture of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The fact that it did not attract a single bid should not be assumed to be of theological significance.

Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 4h

That would be a Ecumenical matter.

Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 4h

The knitted hats did make an appearance, at the end of the official lots. I blame the Methodists.

Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 5h

At least I have plenty of material about a chaotic online charity auction for my next book [sighs].

Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 16h

Morning! belated happy birthday!

Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 17h

One of the two Peruvians I know died recently. That's all I'm saying.

Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 17h

Although a sad lack of knitware. However, the crockery afficionado will not be disappointed.

Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 17h

Am again the auctioneer in Kennington Christian Aid online auction: some fabulous lots, if you fancy a meal in North Lambeth or have a predeliction for marmalade . Send me a DM if that's you.

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The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

Tesla sees annual profit take major plunge with net income dropping over 40%

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 2d

Seville.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 2d

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d

A 77% increase in immigration raids, 83% increase in arrests, coupled with undermining modern slavery protections and a call to remove basic ECHR rights from migrants.
If you think what is happening with ICE in the US can't happen here I have a bridge to sell you. 1/

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Illegal working raids reach highest level in UK history

Enforcement raids skyrocket by 77% since the government came to power leading to an 83% increase in arrests.

www.gov.uk

Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 2d

Disabled people in Mozambique need urgent help after deadly Mozambique floods: 645,000 people affected, with at least 112 deaths. Maputo, Gaza, Inhambane, Sofala & Zambezia provinces affected. More rain is predicted.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2d

If Matthew Goodwin is the very best Reform can muster for an eminently winnable by-election, the unfeasibly warm welcomes for the worst of Johnson & Truss's flotsam & jetsam suddenly make much more sense.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 3d

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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 3d

Matthew Goodwin's selection may genuinely be the biggest unforced error in Farage's political career.

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The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com · 3d

Not many tickets left for a LIVE An Uncanny Hour this Sat Jan 31 at Kings Place. Join an all star panel as they rank some of the greatest monsters in horror movie history. Hosted by @robinince.bsky.social with Mark Gatiss, Alice Lowe & David McAlmont. Tix www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/com...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d

There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.

Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 3d

Poverty in UK shames us all. This is what everyone needs to know. www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2...

UK Poverty 2026: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK

This report sets out the nature of poverty in the UK, and evaluates changes under the last Conservative-led Government. It also sets out the scale of action necessary for the current Government to del...

www.jrf.org.uk

Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 3d

She was so brilliant.

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Dan Elphick @danelphick.bsky.social · 3d

For today, 27 January
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Xg...

'No monument stands over Babi Yar
[...]
Nothing in me shall ever forget.
Let the 'Internationale' thunder forth
When we have buried, finally and forever,
The final antisemite on this earth'.

Shostakovich | Symphony No. 13 (Babi Yar) | 4.27.2019

YouTube video by Michigan State University | College of Music

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 3d

"On Holocaust Memorial Day we need more history, not just more memory" bit.ly/4t6wPx6

Dr Andy Pearce, Director of @uclholocaust.bsky.social, writes today on the RHS blog.

#Skystorians

Front page of Royal Historical Society blog post with image of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial, photograph by Rudolph Simon, 2013, Wilkimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Text reads: "On Holocaust Memorial Day we need more history, not just more memory' and abstract: In this post, Andy Pearce – Director of the Centre for Holocaust Education at UCL – considers the current levels of knowledge of the Holocaust among UK secondary school students. UCL studies, in 2016 and 2026, reveal a troubling and enduring divergence between popular understandings of the persecution and murder of Jews in Europe, in the 1930s and 1940s, and the findings of scholarly historical research. 27 January 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain. As Andy argues, prevalent and popular misperceptions risk being sustained if the Holocaust becomes a subject for remembrance and memory, rather than of history and historical scholarship. It is only though ‘more history’, shared widely and publicly, that we may seek to redress error, distortion and denial."

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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 4d

RIP Lowell Fillmore 'Sly' Dunbar
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Peter Tosh - Stepping Razor

YouTube video by xraymusicdotcodotuk

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 4d

Yes! It made me think about how what you could do in a book waa much more difficult in a film. But it was close to what I imagined.

Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 4d

I too cried a lot!

Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 4d

Loved Hamnet. Doesn't let the book down (if you hated the book, you're unlikely to like this). Great performances.

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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING NEWS: UK loses its #measles elimination status

@benk-d.bsky.social highlights failure to reach 95% measles #vaccine coverage target in UK

+ need for secure funding for vaccine outreach efforts & joined-up #PublicHealth response

Read more: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...