Jerard Bretts
jbretts.bsky.social
Jerard Bretts
@jbretts.bsky.social
All my own views…
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This is called ‘Twenty Modern-Day Proverbs’.
December 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Thanks to @TheParksTrust for organising such a fab #heritageopendays event yesterday, and to our brilliant #Mink writers: Steph Lay, Jerard Bretts, Stella Girvin, Isobel Richards, Sharon Clark, Naia Makwana (and, in absentia, Sarah Davies & Graham R Sherwood). #miltonkeynes
September 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
At the brilliant Millet exhibition, National Gallery…
September 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Excellent John Singer Sargent exhibition at Kenwood House…
August 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Join us tomorrow night (Wed 30 July) as we celebrate International Day of Friendship with 17 brilliant writers each exploring the theme in their own unique ways. All welcome!!
Grab a ticket: www.mklitfest.org/friendship
#friendship #poetry #creativewriting #shortstories #flashfiction #miltonkeynes
You and Me: marking International Day of Friendship | MK Lit Fest 2025
Submit your poetry, flash fiction or creative non-fiction for our July online event, You and Me: marking International Day of Friendship. Entries close on 30 June 2025.
www.mklitfest.org
July 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
At Bob Dylan’s spell-binding new Point Blank exhibition,Halcyon Gallery…
May 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
At a small exhibition at the National Gallery of some of the greatest paintings by Velasco…
April 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Every word counts in this moving new collection of poetry by @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social. Well worth reading. Thanks to @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social for speedy delivery…
April 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
At Mompesson House,Salisbury…
April 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300 - 1350 at the National Gallery…
March 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
snyder.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Farage, Musk and Trump: they crave your attention. Don’t give it to them | Andy Beckett
Farage, Musk and Trump: they crave your attention. Don’t give it to them | Andy Beckett
Populist trolling thrives on the oxygen of publicity. It’s on all of us – media and voters – to start looking away Even more than other forms of politics, populism needs an audience. Populist politicians want to be famous personalities, to make…
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January 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Frank Auerbach’s take on Constable’s Hay Wain…
January 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A detail from the brilliant Haywain exhibition at the National Gallery…
January 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
December 23, 2024 at 11:11 AM
At the incredibly Van Gogh exhibition, National Gallery…
December 17, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Amazing Picasso exhibition at the British Museum….
December 5, 2024 at 3:59 PM
At the Medieval Women in Their Own Words exhibition, British Library…
December 5, 2024 at 1:43 PM