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Martin Bayliss
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Ret’d inner-city school Principal from Brum. Melting into the mighty never.
June 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
If you know…..you know.

@shakespeareandcompany.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.
April 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Excellent as usual…👏👏👏👏
January 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Excellent piece by Tomiwa Owolade. Gramsci would approve.

‘Relatable’ curriculums smother aspiration

www.thetimes.com/article/42a9...
‘Relatable’ curriculums smother aspiration
Swapping the study of Shakespeare for working-class writers simply reinforces stereotypes
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:31 AM

👏👏👏👏👏👏
November 25, 2024 at 5:49 AM
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Kneecap is on Prime & is just proper excellent fun. Great film.
November 18, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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Rallies at Madison Square Garden: Can you distinguish quotations from 10/27/2024 and 2/20/1939? Once you have sorted it out, see if that makes anything better. Donald Trump is working within a tradition, and he knows it.
snyder.substack.com/p/rallies-at...
Rallies at Madison Square Garden
Quotations from October 27th, 2024, and February 20th, 1939
snyder.substack.com
November 1, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Excellent (as usual) from Sam!
October 31, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Kamala nails it. Sensational!

youtu.be/Spnt_Epepdo?...
Full speech: VP Kamala Harris accepts presidential nomination at 2024 DNC | USA TODAY
YouTube video by USA TODAY
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August 23, 2024 at 4:00 AM
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Hi, welcome to Bluesky. I see you're trying to abandon the hellsite. There's a few features to make that easier that you might not have used yet and I'm going to list them here.
August 7, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Max Hastings on top form! 😂😂Liz Truss’s memoir — I have no regrets, says the Mrs Pooter of politics

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1d1c...
April 21, 2024 at 7:08 AM
“At my age, age is more important than gender in how I understand the world . . . I worry when everything becomes reduced to identity. Identity alone is not a politics.” Great quote from Judith Butler in today’s @financialtimes.com
March 9, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Madrid a los refugiados. 👏👏👏
February 29, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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A message to you from Sonny Rollins. (These are the closing lines of his forthcoming Notebooks, edited Sam V. H. Reese.)

www.nyrb.com/products/the...
January 24, 2024 at 1:47 AM
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We are so close to 1000 followers on here, please repost to help us get over the line by nightfall.

'Literary podcast that gives old life to new books WLTM anyone who hangs around in secondhand bookshops hoping to score.'
November 29, 2023 at 4:20 PM
Great to be over here thanks to @t0nyyates.bsky.social Keeping quiet at the moment but listening intently…
October 25, 2023 at 9:20 AM
This is just wonderful….
Here’s this week’s cartoon for The Guardian. Definitely one of those weeks where I needed twice as many panels.

www.theguardian.com/football/ng-...
October 24, 2023 at 1:29 PM