Huw TD
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At Southampton there is a house I have admired, because from the side it looks so flat.
Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Manchester
Egyptian literature, literacy, textual transmission, and religion.
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Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Manchester
Egyptian literature, literacy, textual transmission, and religion.
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I once read an excerpt from Wyndham Lewis' incredibly libelous and vituperative novel "The Roaring Queen" (about Arnold Bennett, written in 1936 and eventually published in 1973), and every time I hear about American east coast literary/journalistic society it comes back to mind:
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I once read an excerpt from Wyndham Lewis' incredibly libelous and vituperative novel "The Roaring Queen" (about Arnold Bennett, written in 1936 and eventually published in 1973), and every time I hear about American east coast literary/journalistic society it comes back to mind:
Well, its a good thing they aren't already on course to lose the next election...
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Well, its a good thing they aren't already on course to lose the next election...
Shelley's Ozymandias was written in competition with Horace Smith, who also composed a poem on the same subject. It's... well, it's a bit crap. You can see why Shelley won:
October 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Shelley's Ozymandias was written in competition with Horace Smith, who also composed a poem on the same subject. It's... well, it's a bit crap. You can see why Shelley won:
Curious to see what my second years make of Sinuhe this afternoon: a complicated and less-than-entirely-honest narrator and protagonist.
October 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Curious to see what my second years make of Sinuhe this afternoon: a complicated and less-than-entirely-honest narrator and protagonist.
From Charlotte Brontë's Villette (pub'd 1853; from chapter 40). Personally, I think this example is entirely unambiguous as a use of "literally" as an intensifier.
October 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
From Charlotte Brontë's Villette (pub'd 1853; from chapter 40). Personally, I think this example is entirely unambiguous as a use of "literally" as an intensifier.
At some point I made this edit, but it's a bit difficult to remember why, or what the original said.
October 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
At some point I made this edit, but it's a bit difficult to remember why, or what the original said.
That's never a ballroom. That's a special hall for the king's Sed-festival.
October 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
That's never a ballroom. That's a special hall for the king's Sed-festival.
Talking royal inscriptions today, including Ramesses II's *ahem* rather massaged account of the Battle of Kadesh.
October 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Talking royal inscriptions today, including Ramesses II's *ahem* rather massaged account of the Battle of Kadesh.
The one on the left is kind of giving Wyndham Lewis' self-portrait as a tyro, though that's doing him altogether too much credit.
October 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The one on the left is kind of giving Wyndham Lewis' self-portrait as a tyro, though that's doing him altogether too much credit.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous...
October 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous...
Reading that Labour memo and it's as illiterate and empty-headed as everyone said.
'Waaaa, waaa, governing is hard, waaaa, where's my pacifier, waaaa'
'Waaaa, waaa, governing is hard, waaaa, where's my pacifier, waaaa'
September 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Reading that Labour memo and it's as illiterate and empty-headed as everyone said.
'Waaaa, waaa, governing is hard, waaaa, where's my pacifier, waaaa'
'Waaaa, waaa, governing is hard, waaaa, where's my pacifier, waaaa'
This was probably Delingpole's first really big breakthrough, fanning a controversy over misinterpreting some emails, as an excuse to dismiss the settled consensus on climate change. He has a BA in English.
![The Climatic Research Unit email controversy (also known as "Climategate")[2][3] began in November 2009 with the hacking of a server at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) by an external attacker,[4][5] copying thousands of emails and computer files (the Climatic Research Unit documents) to various internet locations several weeks before the Copenhagen Summit on climate change.
The story was first broken by climate change denialists,[6][7] who argued that the emails showed that global warming was a scientific conspiracy and that scientists manipulated climate data and attempted to suppress critics.[8][9] The CRU rejected this, saying that the emails had been taken out of context.[10][11] FactCheck.org reported that climate change deniers misrepresented the contents of the emails.[12] Columnist James Delingpole popularised the term "Climategate" to describe the controversy.[13]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jxr4nn7wd2qmyfbcwu7fpzw2/bafkreihqxx3qfml74sm4amyxccbblmizp6faeks3r4xqr5mqeqz5ebdwj4@jpeg)
September 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This was probably Delingpole's first really big breakthrough, fanning a controversy over misinterpreting some emails, as an excuse to dismiss the settled consensus on climate change. He has a BA in English.
I know who two of these are.
September 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I know who two of these are.
This is... not the only appearance of this name combo.
September 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is... not the only appearance of this name combo.
Anyone know which vagans this is?
September 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Anyone know which vagans this is?
