Wendy Dossett
@wedossett.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Chester. Addiction Recovery Spirituality, Buddhism, Religious Education/Religion & Worldviews. Poetry, Cymru, Kingfishers, Corncrakes, Curlew, Coastguarding. She/her. www.wedossett.com
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For the kind of linkages that were so productive on the other platform we need recovery community members, activists, professionals & academics all to be here.
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For the kind of linkages that were so productive on the other platform we need recovery community members, activists, professionals & academics all to be here.
go.bsky.app/QMJ9gSe
Just discovered this excellent podcaster/blogger.
Makes me think of Laurence Fox’s legal action to prevent him being called racist, and his concomitant defence of his ‘right’ to call GNC people paedos. We’re getting nowhere if people don’t understand the relationship between rights & liberties.
Makes me think of Laurence Fox’s legal action to prevent him being called racist, and his concomitant defence of his ‘right’ to call GNC people paedos. We’re getting nowhere if people don’t understand the relationship between rights & liberties.
I'm always trying to picture the ideal society. To do this is to balance the freedoms we're willing to forego in order to provide rights we determine to be essential.
This episode explores a new way of looking at Rights & Liberties, helping us parse the rhetoric of "big" and "small" government.
This episode explores a new way of looking at Rights & Liberties, helping us parse the rhetoric of "big" and "small" government.
Rights & Liberties—are opposites
Podcast Episode · Non-Zero-Sum James · 02/10/2025 · 9m
podcasts.apple.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Just discovered this excellent podcaster/blogger.
Makes me think of Laurence Fox’s legal action to prevent him being called racist, and his concomitant defence of his ‘right’ to call GNC people paedos. We’re getting nowhere if people don’t understand the relationship between rights & liberties.
Makes me think of Laurence Fox’s legal action to prevent him being called racist, and his concomitant defence of his ‘right’ to call GNC people paedos. We’re getting nowhere if people don’t understand the relationship between rights & liberties.
Trying not to tax my life with forethought of grief (viz Caerphilly) - but it’s hard.
October 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Trying not to tax my life with forethought of grief (viz Caerphilly) - but it’s hard.
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A reminder.
Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas.
Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas.
Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas.
Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.
Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas.
Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas.
Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas.
Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.
October 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A reminder.
Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas.
Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas.
Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas.
Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.
Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas.
Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas.
Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas.
Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.
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Issue 12 has landed! Our twelfth step…
In this issue:
Fallen Angels Dance Theatre
@drdavidpatton.bsky.social
Speakbeat Collective
Sober IS Fun
Jem Tovey
Ameet Shah
New Note Orchestra
Daniel Leyton
READ HERE: recovery-arts.org/pr-magazine/...
In this issue:
Fallen Angels Dance Theatre
@drdavidpatton.bsky.social
Speakbeat Collective
Sober IS Fun
Jem Tovey
Ameet Shah
New Note Orchestra
Daniel Leyton
READ HERE: recovery-arts.org/pr-magazine/...
Performing Recovery Issue 12
Featuring Fallen Angels, New Note Orchestra, (UP)BEAT, Sober IS Fun, Jem Tovey talks about Recovery Tattoos, Dr David Patton on New Central Media, News, Poetry and Art.
recovery-arts.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Issue 12 has landed! Our twelfth step…
In this issue:
Fallen Angels Dance Theatre
@drdavidpatton.bsky.social
Speakbeat Collective
Sober IS Fun
Jem Tovey
Ameet Shah
New Note Orchestra
Daniel Leyton
READ HERE: recovery-arts.org/pr-magazine/...
In this issue:
Fallen Angels Dance Theatre
@drdavidpatton.bsky.social
Speakbeat Collective
Sober IS Fun
Jem Tovey
Ameet Shah
New Note Orchestra
Daniel Leyton
READ HERE: recovery-arts.org/pr-magazine/...
Stunning interview with Annie Farmer. I read parts of her story in Lucia Osborne Crowley’s The Lasting Harm. What strength and dignity in the face of decades of denial, minimisation and corruption.
#Newsnight 1030pm @BBCTwo
• intense scrutiny on Prince Andrew continues
Tonight we speak to a senior member of US Oversight Committee - the committee currently scrutinising the Epstein files
Plus we hear from Epstein survivor Annie Farmer who first reported his sexual abuse to police in 1996
• intense scrutiny on Prince Andrew continues
Tonight we speak to a senior member of US Oversight Committee - the committee currently scrutinising the Epstein files
Plus we hear from Epstein survivor Annie Farmer who first reported his sexual abuse to police in 1996
October 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Stunning interview with Annie Farmer. I read parts of her story in Lucia Osborne Crowley’s The Lasting Harm. What strength and dignity in the face of decades of denial, minimisation and corruption.
This is a much better article on James Orr than the superficial one in the @telegraphnews.bsky.social this weekend. It engages with his actual thought.
Orr’s work, like Nigel Biggar’s is not widely respected, but the status of his institution lends unwarranted leverage to his ideas.
Orr’s work, like Nigel Biggar’s is not widely respected, but the status of his institution lends unwarranted leverage to his ideas.
Shock and Orr: Meet the Farage-Supporting ‘Philosopher King’ of British Authoritarianism
My latest for Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/26/j...
My latest for Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/26/j...
Shock and Orr: Meet the Farage-Supporting 'Philosopher King' of British Authoritarianism
The Cambridge professor providing the intellectual underpinning for JD Vance and Nigel Farage, is described by one academic colleague as being 'more Tommy Robinson than St Thomas Aquinas'
bylinetimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This is a much better article on James Orr than the superficial one in the @telegraphnews.bsky.social this weekend. It engages with his actual thought.
Orr’s work, like Nigel Biggar’s is not widely respected, but the status of his institution lends unwarranted leverage to his ideas.
Orr’s work, like Nigel Biggar’s is not widely respected, but the status of his institution lends unwarranted leverage to his ideas.
Very sad. I read Baek Sehee’s book last year. It was was, indeed, frank, but, and this is no shade on the author at all, it was one of those books that makes me extremely concerned about the poor quality of much psychotherapy and about the toxic positivity of ‘wellbeing’ culture.
Baek Sehee, a South Korean author who wrote the best-selling memoir “I Want to Die, but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki,” died on Thursday at 35. Her frank conversations about therapy and mental health helped her become a cultural phenomenon in her home country and beyond.
Baek Sehee, South Korean Author of “I Want to Die, but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki,” Dies at 35
The writer turned recorded sessions with her therapist into a best-selling memoir, and helped normalize conversations around mental health in South Korea.
nyti.ms
October 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Very sad. I read Baek Sehee’s book last year. It was was, indeed, frank, but, and this is no shade on the author at all, it was one of those books that makes me extremely concerned about the poor quality of much psychotherapy and about the toxic positivity of ‘wellbeing’ culture.
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Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre
October 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre
What a terrific night out! ⬇️
I had a brilliant night at Warws Un last night opening for the brilliant Martin Daws & Tyrone Molefe and the utterly amazing Sera & Eve Goodman - what a talented bunch they are 🏴
Thank you @wedossett.bsky.social for the photo I've just pinched 🤭
Thank you @wedossett.bsky.social for the photo I've just pinched 🤭
October 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
What a terrific night out! ⬇️
Whatever else you could say about Starmer's speech - forgtting that the women DID bring football home is surely a massive gaff.
September 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Whatever else you could say about Starmer's speech - forgtting that the women DID bring football home is surely a massive gaff.
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"And that was how the Wittgensteinian dynastic wars began!"
September 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"And that was how the Wittgensteinian dynastic wars began!"
Deleted my account with academia-dot-edu. New privacy policy is the last straw. It can sell all of your words, your profile picture, anything you post on it. I should have come off it a long time ago, like lots of people did, when it started to monetise the competition for citations.
September 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Deleted my account with academia-dot-edu. New privacy policy is the last straw. It can sell all of your words, your profile picture, anything you post on it. I should have come off it a long time ago, like lots of people did, when it started to monetise the competition for citations.
This is awful news. Perhaps this a minority point given the horrific wider implications, but Texas Tech has been a beacon of hope for people in recovery from addiction seeking access to HE. Now it is actively erasing part of that community. #TexasTech
Breaking: Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities.
Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities
Advocacy groups say the new state law, presidential executive order and gubernatorial letter Tedd Mitchell cited do not prohibit classroom discussions of particular LGBTQ+ identities.
www.texastribune.org
September 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This is awful news. Perhaps this a minority point given the horrific wider implications, but Texas Tech has been a beacon of hope for people in recovery from addiction seeking access to HE. Now it is actively erasing part of that community. #TexasTech
Subtly downgrade a band
Moist Leg
Moist Leg
subtly downgrade a band
They Probably Aren't Giants
They Probably Aren't Giants
subtly downgrade a band
The Tragically Shoulder
The Tragically Shoulder
September 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Subtly downgrade a band
Moist Leg
Moist Leg
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Art is sexy.
I mean, really fucking sexy. Historically fucking hot. And all forms of art
"AI" is yet another attempt for uncreative, unsexy people to try to scream they are indeed sexy by screaming they know what sexy is therefore. While being sold by grifters. And fucking up a lot.
I mean, really fucking sexy. Historically fucking hot. And all forms of art
"AI" is yet another attempt for uncreative, unsexy people to try to scream they are indeed sexy by screaming they know what sexy is therefore. While being sold by grifters. And fucking up a lot.
August 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Art is sexy.
I mean, really fucking sexy. Historically fucking hot. And all forms of art
"AI" is yet another attempt for uncreative, unsexy people to try to scream they are indeed sexy by screaming they know what sexy is therefore. While being sold by grifters. And fucking up a lot.
I mean, really fucking sexy. Historically fucking hot. And all forms of art
"AI" is yet another attempt for uncreative, unsexy people to try to scream they are indeed sexy by screaming they know what sexy is therefore. While being sold by grifters. And fucking up a lot.
“Universities are perceived straightforwardly as places for people to gain a qualification for their career and personal advancement — completely ignoring their role as a public good and as the linchpin of civilised society.” unherd.com/2025/08/can-...
Welsh universities are ailing
unherd.com
August 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“Universities are perceived straightforwardly as places for people to gain a qualification for their career and personal advancement — completely ignoring their role as a public good and as the linchpin of civilised society.” unherd.com/2025/08/can-...
Grateful for the opportunity to add my name to this list of writers calling for a boycott. I remember the consumer boycott of South Africa towards the end of Apartheid. History shows that made a small difference. Thx @horatioclare.bsky.social for organising this. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Zadie Smith, Michael Rosen, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson sign letter calling for Israel boycott
More than 200 writers request cessation of all trade until people of Gaza given adequate food, water and aid
www.theguardian.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Grateful for the opportunity to add my name to this list of writers calling for a boycott. I remember the consumer boycott of South Africa towards the end of Apartheid. History shows that made a small difference. Thx @horatioclare.bsky.social for organising this. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Another one? If only there were other books with great stories written by women that could ve adapted for tv ….
I love it by the way but really?
I love it by the way but really?
Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice has started production. Details here bit.ly/3UDLgbK
#PrideandPrejudice #TV #Netflix #EmmaCorrin #OliviaColman #JackLowden #RufusSewell #book #JaneAusten
#PrideandPrejudice #TV #Netflix #EmmaCorrin #OliviaColman #JackLowden #RufusSewell #book #JaneAusten
July 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Another one? If only there were other books with great stories written by women that could ve adapted for tv ….
I love it by the way but really?
I love it by the way but really?
People who aren’t mothers also weep. And people who are mothers, sadly, do not weep. Motherhood does not make anyone uniquely compassionate, empathetic or invested in children.
We should all weep. And then organise.
We should all weep. And then organise.
As a mother - as a human - I find it very difficult to look at these photos and not weep. “Rates of severe malnutrition among children aged under five at Médecins Sans Frontières’ Gaza City clinic have tripled in the last two weeks”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Severe malnutrition in under-5s has tripled at Gaza City clinic, charity reports
Charity says number of people needing care for malnutrition has quadrupled and blames Israeli ‘policy of starvation’
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
People who aren’t mothers also weep. And people who are mothers, sadly, do not weep. Motherhood does not make anyone uniquely compassionate, empathetic or invested in children.
We should all weep. And then organise.
We should all weep. And then organise.
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We're huge fans of The White Chip at @swkplay.bsky.social.
Our latest issue (recovery-arts.org/pr-magazine/...) features playwright @seandaniels.bsky.social, lead actor Ed Coleman and a poetic response from @wedossett.bsky.social.
Book to see the play here
southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/...
Our latest issue (recovery-arts.org/pr-magazine/...) features playwright @seandaniels.bsky.social, lead actor Ed Coleman and a poetic response from @wedossett.bsky.social.
Book to see the play here
southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/...
July 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
We're huge fans of The White Chip at @swkplay.bsky.social.
Our latest issue (recovery-arts.org/pr-magazine/...) features playwright @seandaniels.bsky.social, lead actor Ed Coleman and a poetic response from @wedossett.bsky.social.
Book to see the play here
southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/...
Our latest issue (recovery-arts.org/pr-magazine/...) features playwright @seandaniels.bsky.social, lead actor Ed Coleman and a poetic response from @wedossett.bsky.social.
Book to see the play here
southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/...
Thrilled to have my poetic response to the play The White Chip in the latest issue of Performing Recovery. Go and see the play at @swkplay.bsky.social if you can! @performingrecovery.bsky.social
Issue 11 is here for the UK premiere of The White Chip at @swkplay.bsky.social.
Featuring @seandaniels.bsky.social, @wedossett.bsky.social, Outside Edge, @suitwolves.bsky.social, @mazonoace.bsky.social, @leonclowes.bsky.social, Recovered 1440
Read free online: recovery-arts.org/pr-magazine/...
Featuring @seandaniels.bsky.social, @wedossett.bsky.social, Outside Edge, @suitwolves.bsky.social, @mazonoace.bsky.social, @leonclowes.bsky.social, Recovered 1440
Read free online: recovery-arts.org/pr-magazine/...
Issue 11 of Performing Recovery.
Partnering with The White Chip, a new comedy about addiction recovery playing at the Southwalk Playhouse Borough. Featuring interviews with Ed Coleman, Sean Daniels, a
recovery-arts.org
July 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Thrilled to have my poetic response to the play The White Chip in the latest issue of Performing Recovery. Go and see the play at @swkplay.bsky.social if you can! @performingrecovery.bsky.social
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‘long walks in nature can cure rare diseases’ grifters = every bit as bad as ‘don’t get chemotherapy, drink juice’ grifters
July 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
‘long walks in nature can cure rare diseases’ grifters = every bit as bad as ‘don’t get chemotherapy, drink juice’ grifters
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that's some vintage antisemitism holy shit
"No death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker. And in some cases, shylocks and bad people."
July 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
that's some vintage antisemitism holy shit
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A meagre contribution by me to this week's #poemsabout on the theme of #burnitdown. Nonetheless, I feel it's not wholly out of place, what with the weather recently.
July 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
A meagre contribution by me to this week's #poemsabout on the theme of #burnitdown. Nonetheless, I feel it's not wholly out of place, what with the weather recently.