Steven Burkeman
@stevenburkeman.bsky.social
Husband, grandpa, Quaker, Yorkie. Involved with various charities etc, but views are my own.
This deeply disturbing interview is a ‘must see’. Thankyou, Channel 4 News: www.channel4.com/news/illiber...
‘Illiberalism is part of American tradition,’ says US historian
The Trump administration's deportation of citizens with a legal right to be in the US, defiance of federal law and campaign against the universities may have shocked many.
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April 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This deeply disturbing interview is a ‘must see’. Thankyou, Channel 4 News: www.channel4.com/news/illiber...
So here, for no reason at all, is a photo I took this morning of Duchess Bridge in Alnmouth.
April 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
So here, for no reason at all, is a photo I took this morning of Duchess Bridge in Alnmouth.
Paperback out next Thurs! www.waterstones.com/book/meditat...
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April 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Well, Kemi Badenoch, if you don’t have any policies on the usual stuff, what’s your policy on car crash @ @bbcradio4 Today interviews? Clearly, it’s not to avoid them.
April 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Well, Kemi Badenoch, if you don’t have any policies on the usual stuff, what’s your policy on car crash @ @bbcradio4 Today interviews? Clearly, it’s not to avoid them.
Surely it will be much less embarrassing for the Government to keep Trump out of Parliament than for him to be invited to address significantly empty benches, or to silent ones, maybe with backs turned.
April 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Surely it will be much less embarrassing for the Government to keep Trump out of Parliament than for him to be invited to address significantly empty benches, or to silent ones, maybe with backs turned.
I just told Speaker Hoyle to keep Trump out of Parliament - will you do the same? actionstorm.org/petitions/du... #DumpTrump
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April 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I just told Speaker Hoyle to keep Trump out of Parliament - will you do the same? actionstorm.org/petitions/du... #DumpTrump
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
@mjanef.bsky.social Happy Birthday, Jane!
March 31, 2025 at 7:00 AM
@mjanef.bsky.social Happy Birthday, Jane!
This is shameful - what have we come to? www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
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March 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This is shameful - what have we come to? www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
This is A Good Listen (biased, moi?): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
March 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is A Good Listen (biased, moi?): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The King’s music choices have shocked me - how could he choose Kylie’s cover of the Locomotion rather than the original by Little Eva?
March 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The King’s music choices have shocked me - how could he choose Kylie’s cover of the Locomotion rather than the original by Little Eva?
Maybe there is a god:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
SpaceX’s Starship explodes in second failure for Musk’s Mars program
Back-to-back mishaps indicate big setbacks for program to launch satellites and send humans to the moon and Mars
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March 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Maybe there is a god:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This month marks the centenary of the death of Joseph Rowntree. To mark the occasion, the Rowntree Society has set up a special page at its website and will be running various events. Details here: www.rowntreesociety.org.uk/joseph-rownt...
Joseph Rowntree Centenary - The Rowntree Society
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February 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This month marks the centenary of the death of Joseph Rowntree. To mark the occasion, the Rowntree Society has set up a special page at its website and will be running various events. Details here: www.rowntreesociety.org.uk/joseph-rownt...
Every now and again, @bbcradio4.bsky.social turns out a classic edition of Desert Island Discs. This week’s, with Nemone Lethbridge was one such.
February 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Every now and again, @bbcradio4.bsky.social turns out a classic edition of Desert Island Discs. This week’s, with Nemone Lethbridge was one such.
I wonder how many Archers listeners - those not lucky enough to live in York - will realise that Berwick Kaler is a real person. #Archers
January 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I wonder how many Archers listeners - those not lucky enough to live in York - will realise that Berwick Kaler is a real person. #Archers
Marina Hyde on top form today. See esp the bit about Bezos’ fiancée’s outfit.
So this is Trump’s ‘golden age’ – chaos, dysfunction and a coalition of creeps | Marina Hyde
Confusing and capricious, he started as he means to go on. To all the leaders pledging to work with him: good luck with that, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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January 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Marina Hyde on top form today. See esp the bit about Bezos’ fiancée’s outfit.
Private Eye nails it.
January 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Private Eye nails it.
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From the York Press: ‘The restaurant's name has the spelling La Terrazina on the Food Standards Agency website, although on its website it is listed as La Terrazzina, while on the business's sign it is La Terraggina’. The FSA gave 1* for food hygiene. The Spelling Standards Agency has yet to visit.
January 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
From the York Press: ‘The restaurant's name has the spelling La Terrazina on the Food Standards Agency website, although on its website it is listed as La Terrazzina, while on the business's sign it is La Terraggina’. The FSA gave 1* for food hygiene. The Spelling Standards Agency has yet to visit.
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Given the new BBC Radio 4 fashion for linking programmes to the surnames of their presenters (Sideways, Young Again), I’m wondering what kind of programme I might present…
January 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Given the new BBC Radio 4 fashion for linking programmes to the surnames of their presenters (Sideways, Young Again), I’m wondering what kind of programme I might present…
I’m not an Emma Barnett fan (in her BBC R4 Today incarnation). But the interview with Holocaust survivor, Ivor Perl, was very moving.
January 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I’m not an Emma Barnett fan (in her BBC R4 Today incarnation). But the interview with Holocaust survivor, Ivor Perl, was very moving.
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It’s taken me too long to get there, but Musk’s Nazi salutes yesterday have finally made me shut down my X account.
January 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
It’s taken me too long to get there, but Musk’s Nazi salutes yesterday have finally made me shut down my X account.