David Marriott
@davidmarriott.bsky.social
🏴🇨🇳🇨🇮🇪🇦 Editor. Shakespeare. Melville. Auden. Wine. Rossini & Verdi. The Fens. Leftie.
Super-interesting article about Wystie. But Funeral Blues in sub-head? Oof. Why not Limestone? A straight reading of Funeral Blues is that it’s mawkish. Its real cleverness lies in that it’s a satire. Or am I being a snob?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal
Exclusive: The newly released correspondence reveals how a strong bond developed between the Funeral Blues poet and the sex worker who broke into his home
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Super-interesting article about Wystie. But Funeral Blues in sub-head? Oof. Why not Limestone? A straight reading of Funeral Blues is that it’s mawkish. Its real cleverness lies in that it’s a satire. Or am I being a snob?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Trans is a complex issue and I remain open to persuasion. But this column feels about right to me.
The reaction to women celebrating the For Women Scotland legal victory only serves as a reminder that while the law is the law our culture remains dead-set against women who say no.
My final column for the Observer.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My final column for the Observer.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The supreme court has carefully ringfenced protections for women. That’s all we wanted | Sonia Sodha
Last week’s ruling clarified the legal safeguards of the Equality Act. However, it was a travesty that the battle needed to be fought at all
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Trans is a complex issue and I remain open to persuasion. But this column feels about right to me.
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This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.
February 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.
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Writing this with a heavy heart: the refugee citizenship ban is the single most unconscionable policy Labour has proposed since it entered power. It’s the moment that I felt my support for this administration begin to crumble inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...
The precise moment my support for Keir Starmer began to crumble
Labour is going to prevent refugees from ever becoming citizens of Britain
inews.co.uk
February 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Writing this with a heavy heart: the refugee citizenship ban is the single most unconscionable policy Labour has proposed since it entered power. It’s the moment that I felt my support for this administration begin to crumble inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...
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Returning soon to Trump's America.
January 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Returning soon to Trump's America.
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NO NO NO NO NO STOP NORMALISING THIS!
Scriptwriters and editors; I expect better.
Scriptwriters and editors; I expect better.
January 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
NO NO NO NO NO STOP NORMALISING THIS!
Scriptwriters and editors; I expect better.
Scriptwriters and editors; I expect better.
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we won't ever say it loud enough: billionaires are an existential threat
January 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
we won't ever say it loud enough: billionaires are an existential threat
I wondered which planet this was, having seen it earlier this evening, and now I know.
January 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I wondered which planet this was, having seen it earlier this evening, and now I know.
Apropos of nothing and addressing no-one in particular, it just occurred to me that this year I will have known my partner for as many years as the years she had when I first met her. I remain uxorious.
January 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Apropos of nothing and addressing no-one in particular, it just occurred to me that this year I will have known my partner for as many years as the years she had when I first met her. I remain uxorious.
Wonderful!
Pentametron was one of the great web art projects, retweeting couplets of accidentally iambic tweets. Thanks to Bluesky's open feed, I have resurrected the concept..
Behold @iambic.bot!
Behold @iambic.bot!
November 30, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Wonderful!
Crows are so fascinating. This is well worth a follow.
Hi 👋 I co-lead the recently formed Crow Cognition Group, studying the socio-ecological, cognitive, and cultural underpinnings of tool-related and general foraging behaviour in New Caledonian crows 🐦⬛ I’m also a (Stan) cognitive modelling enthusiast.
November 29, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Crows are so fascinating. This is well worth a follow.
Great article by Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social
on Cormac McCarthy. Really good on the ugly power dynamic and its context in current events.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
on Cormac McCarthy. Really good on the ugly power dynamic and its context in current events.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 28, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Great article by Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social
on Cormac McCarthy. Really good on the ugly power dynamic and its context in current events.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
on Cormac McCarthy. Really good on the ugly power dynamic and its context in current events.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What novels changed the way you see the world in the long-term?
The Bluest Eye (Morrison), The Book of Negroes (Hill), Moby-Dick (Melville), American Psycho (Ellis), Long Division (Laymon), The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness (Shin), and Mansfield Park (Austen) are all on my list
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The Bluest Eye (Morrison), The Book of Negroes (Hill), Moby-Dick (Melville), American Psycho (Ellis), Long Division (Laymon), The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness (Shin), and Mansfield Park (Austen) are all on my list
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Honestly once you learn to read the world through Moby-Dick, it takes over your brain
I get why my grandpa wrote a whole book about it while he was incarcerated
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I get why my grandpa wrote a whole book about it while he was incarcerated
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Mariners, Renegades and Castaways
A new edition of a major work of literary and cultural criticism restores C. L. R. James’s reflections about Moby Dick and political persecution. Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist, a...
press.uchicago.edu
November 24, 2024 at 8:04 PM
What novels changed the way you see the world in the long-term?
The Bluest Eye (Morrison), The Book of Negroes (Hill), Moby-Dick (Melville), American Psycho (Ellis), Long Division (Laymon), The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness (Shin), and Mansfield Park (Austen) are all on my list
📚💙
The Bluest Eye (Morrison), The Book of Negroes (Hill), Moby-Dick (Melville), American Psycho (Ellis), Long Division (Laymon), The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness (Shin), and Mansfield Park (Austen) are all on my list
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The average American got 7 out of 11 questions correct on this Pew Research science 🧪 quiz. You can do better, right?
Quiz: How much do you know about science?
Test your knowledge of science facts and applications of scientific principles by taking our 11-question quiz, then compare your answers to the average American and across demographic groups.
www.pewresearch.org
November 25, 2024 at 12:27 AM
The average American got 7 out of 11 questions correct on this Pew Research science 🧪 quiz. You can do better, right?
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I’ve been reluctant to start a Substack, because I like being commissioned, I like being edited, and I especially like to be paid.
But I couldn’t face hawking this one around to weary editors, for reasons that you may understand if you read it.
rostaylor240051.substack.com/p/and-then-p...
But I couldn’t face hawking this one around to weary editors, for reasons that you may understand if you read it.
rostaylor240051.substack.com/p/and-then-p...
November 24, 2024 at 7:59 AM
I’ve been reluctant to start a Substack, because I like being commissioned, I like being edited, and I especially like to be paid.
But I couldn’t face hawking this one around to weary editors, for reasons that you may understand if you read it.
rostaylor240051.substack.com/p/and-then-p...
But I couldn’t face hawking this one around to weary editors, for reasons that you may understand if you read it.
rostaylor240051.substack.com/p/and-then-p...
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Symphysops stevaninae
Lower Kataoua Fm
Upper Ordovician
Jebel Tijarfaiouine
El Kaid Errami Morocco
#trilobites #paleontology
Lower Kataoua Fm
Upper Ordovician
Jebel Tijarfaiouine
El Kaid Errami Morocco
#trilobites #paleontology
November 23, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Symphysops stevaninae
Lower Kataoua Fm
Upper Ordovician
Jebel Tijarfaiouine
El Kaid Errami Morocco
#trilobites #paleontology
Lower Kataoua Fm
Upper Ordovician
Jebel Tijarfaiouine
El Kaid Errami Morocco
#trilobites #paleontology
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A good first post. @jayrayner1.bsky.social is joining the FT Mag as restaurant critic. @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social is joining as a monthly columnist. @timhayward.bsky.social is becoming the FT's food writer. I don't know what to say other than.... HERE WE GO!!!!!!!! aboutus.ft.com/press_releas...
November 21, 2024 at 3:02 PM
A good first post. @jayrayner1.bsky.social is joining the FT Mag as restaurant critic. @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social is joining as a monthly columnist. @timhayward.bsky.social is becoming the FT's food writer. I don't know what to say other than.... HERE WE GO!!!!!!!! aboutus.ft.com/press_releas...
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Gossamer worm from tonight! I was about to leave the dock when it swam right up to me 🤩
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November 19, 2024 at 5:34 AM
Gossamer worm from tonight! I was about to leave the dock when it swam right up to me 🤩
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literally who is theseus and why should i care about who he ships
November 18, 2024 at 3:40 PM
literally who is theseus and why should i care about who he ships
Visiting family - found this bottle I dimly recall buying many years ago at auction, stored in far too warm place the last few years (rest of family not wine obsessives, so they don’t get the memos) – but gosh it’s good – complete, mature, long, warm, full, spicy – what a pleasant surprise. Ooh.
November 11, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Visiting family - found this bottle I dimly recall buying many years ago at auction, stored in far too warm place the last few years (rest of family not wine obsessives, so they don’t get the memos) – but gosh it’s good – complete, mature, long, warm, full, spicy – what a pleasant surprise. Ooh.