Joel Parry
@joelparry.bsky.social
Actor / Director / Wanderer
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December 6, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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It’s here: Our list of 100 Notable Books of 2025. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
It’s here: Our list of 100 Notable Books of 2025. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
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Climate change affects EVERYTHING. It’s mad that the issue has become left-coded when it should be just reality-coded
Climate change is a kitchen table issue. For most people a home is their largest investment, when climate change depresses their property values or makes their home uninsurable, it's a huge economic hit.
Rising Home Insurance Premiums Are Eating Into Home Values in Disaster-Prone Areas
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Climate change affects EVERYTHING. It’s mad that the issue has become left-coded when it should be just reality-coded
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The system is rigged against you. Here's how
November 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The system is rigged against you. Here's how
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It’s Bookshop Day so here’s a poem in celebration of all those amazing bookshops out there.
October 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
It’s Bookshop Day so here’s a poem in celebration of all those amazing bookshops out there.
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I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover
September 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover
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If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business.
It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI.
Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk
It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI.
Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk
September 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business.
It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI.
Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk
It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI.
Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk
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July 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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We’ve pooled together some of our best reading recommendations for the long hot summer ahead (in the Northern Hemisphere anyway) 🌊☀️⛱️
🔗 Discover our curated reading lists, personal recommendations and summer reading quiz ⤵️https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/wsrie0zajw
🔗 Discover our curated reading lists, personal recommendations and summer reading quiz ⤵️https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/wsrie0zajw
Summer reading from the Booker Prizes | The Booker Prizes
We’ve pooled together some of our best reading recommendations for the long hot summer ahead – so dip in and find your new favourite novel. Still unsure? Our quiz will recommend the perfect Booker book for you
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July 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
We’ve pooled together some of our best reading recommendations for the long hot summer ahead (in the Northern Hemisphere anyway) 🌊☀️⛱️
🔗 Discover our curated reading lists, personal recommendations and summer reading quiz ⤵️https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/wsrie0zajw
🔗 Discover our curated reading lists, personal recommendations and summer reading quiz ⤵️https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/wsrie0zajw
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1. One thing you need to realise about the British Establishment is that it uses clowns to express its deepest desires. People like Rod Liddle offer a kind of deniability - "lighten up, he's just having a laugh". But they deliver a closer representation of its truths than any sober editorial.
Meanwhile
The Spectator is condoning the bombing of Brighton and Glastonbury
I'm sure it will be a proscribed organisation any minute now...
The Spectator is condoning the bombing of Brighton and Glastonbury
I'm sure it will be a proscribed organisation any minute now...
July 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
1. One thing you need to realise about the British Establishment is that it uses clowns to express its deepest desires. People like Rod Liddle offer a kind of deniability - "lighten up, he's just having a laugh". But they deliver a closer representation of its truths than any sober editorial.
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Yes, if you provide alternatives to current transport modes, and help reduce the need to travel, it certainly does. Check out Paris. The city is transformed.
Incidentally, when you "close" a road to cars, you open it to human beings.
Incidentally, when you "close" a road to cars, you open it to human beings.
Hang on, so if more roads cause more congestion, then conversely, closing roads should relieve congestion? That doesn’t seem right to me, bearing in mind the turmoil any time there’s a road closure anywhere in the country!
June 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Yes, if you provide alternatives to current transport modes, and help reduce the need to travel, it certainly does. Check out Paris. The city is transformed.
Incidentally, when you "close" a road to cars, you open it to human beings.
Incidentally, when you "close" a road to cars, you open it to human beings.
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“The dead will wake up, not comprehending. / Till everything that happened has unhappened.”
— Czesław Miłosz
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This poem appeared in Selected and Last Poems, 1931-2004, published by Ecco, 2011. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Czesław Miłosz
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This poem appeared in Selected and Last Poems, 1931-2004, published by Ecco, 2011. Shared here with deep gratitude.
May 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“The dead will wake up, not comprehending. / Till everything that happened has unhappened.”
— Czesław Miłosz
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This poem appeared in Selected and Last Poems, 1931-2004, published by Ecco, 2011. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Czesław Miłosz
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This poem appeared in Selected and Last Poems, 1931-2004, published by Ecco, 2011. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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The Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia takes place in Tokyo and online from May 28 to June 11. Our resident critic picks six titles that make every second count.
Six short films that capture our world in mere minutes
The Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia proves that less time doesn't have to mean a lack of substance.
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May 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia takes place in Tokyo and online from May 28 to June 11. Our resident critic picks six titles that make every second count.
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Laila Shawa, Palestinian artist (1940-2022) whose work has been described as a personal reflection on politics and culture #womensart
May 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Laila Shawa, Palestinian artist (1940-2022) whose work has been described as a personal reflection on politics and culture #womensart
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This is what a rigged economy looks like:
In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker.
In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker.
This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker.
That has got to change.
In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker.
In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker.
This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker.
That has got to change.
April 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is what a rigged economy looks like:
In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker.
In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker.
This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker.
That has got to change.
In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker.
In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker.
This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker.
That has got to change.
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Here’s a poem for Earth Day. It’s called ‘Birdsong’.
April 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Here’s a poem for Earth Day. It’s called ‘Birdsong’.
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Georgia O’Keeffe, Light Coming on the Plains, III, 1917 #WomensArt
April 17, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Georgia O’Keeffe, Light Coming on the Plains, III, 1917 #WomensArt