Did you read his latest contribution to todayโs Times? He should stick to ping pong ๐
05.10.2025 17:28 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@harrietgriffey.bsky.social
Writer. Suffolk raised, London based, European. MA in Modern & Contemporary Literature. www.writersretreats.org
Did you read his latest contribution to todayโs Times? He should stick to ping pong ๐
05.10.2025 17:28 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Commemorating the Battle of Cable Street on October 4th 1936, when the people of Londonโs East End stood against Oswald Mosleyโs British Union of Fascists. And remembering why we should all be Antifa.
04.10.2025 09:29 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sounds like one of those posh international schools, or the French Lycรฉe in Kentish Town ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
21.06.2025 22:03 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Still true:
*Britain is a success story
*Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well
*Multiculturalism is popular
*Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration
*Nostalgia is increasingly weird
*Britain is incredibly safe
*Levels of social cohesion are high
Don't let them gaslight you.
Alan Parkerโs 1989 film Mississippi Burning was my introduction to this terrible, terrible story.
21.06.2025 20:43 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Not only that, Boris stuck him in the House of Lords ๐
19.06.2025 22:24 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A Group of Poor Clares (Claireโs?) from the Siena exhibition at the @nationalgallery โ a fresco fragment by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, painted around 1340. Discovered under whitewash in 1855.
19.06.2025 07:49 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Grouped by subject (ie. fiction, art, poetry, biography, etc) & then by author (but not alphabetical)๐
18.05.2025 18:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Ah, the perils of #NextDoor ๐ฌ
18.05.2025 18:14 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I just heard & then saw my first one (north London) this morning!! Hooray! ๐๐ผ
28.04.2025 08:55 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I love the sound of this course! Great literature sources too ๐
24.04.2025 02:52 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0He never fails to remind us what a failure at business he was โฆ 14 bankruptcies? ๐คจ
01.04.2025 09:53 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0On Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?
28.03.2025 13:46 โ ๐ 937 ๐ 603 ๐ฌ 52 ๐ 36Blimey ๐ณ
28.03.2025 10:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0No, no sheds ๐ but will keep my eye out.
21.03.2025 20:40 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I know this cat! She sometimes comes in my garden โ & left one of those colours behind!! Iโll look out for her
21.03.2025 12:14 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0We should really ask Canada if they'll let us be their 11th province.
18.03.2025 01:04 โ ๐ 1081 ๐ 272 ๐ฌ 44 ๐ 18Bizarre, given his heart failure & dementia.
08.03.2025 11:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Blimey! Who said that??
07.03.2025 22:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Sounds exactly like the economic leadership of a man with six bankruptcies to his name ๐ซ
06.03.2025 18:16 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โ๐ป๐โ๐ป๐โ๐ป
Writersโ retreat
May 24th - 31st 2025
Time to actually WRITE plus
optional workshops, one-to-one support, peaceful surroundings, great food & company โ a week of creative focus & inspiration in the beautiful Alpujarra region of southern Spain.
www.writersretreats.org
Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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27.02.2025 08:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My dream is to finish my book, get a face lift, and a bright red wig.
26.02.2025 22:24 โ ๐ 26 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2โ๐ป๐โ๐ป๐โ๐ป
Writersโ retreat
May 24th - 31st 2025
Time to actually WRITE plus
optional workshops, one-to-one support, peaceful surroundings, great food & company โ a week of creative focus & inspiration in the beautiful Alpujarra region of southern Spain.
www.writersretreats.org
If only โฆ ๐
18.02.2025 09:48 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What is the matter with these โlaw enforcementโ officials & why have they been gagged: it was hardly a love crime ๐
17.02.2025 22:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Snowdrops ready to be planted
We have taken delivery of 2000 snowdrops and 1000 bluebells.
Come plant them in the museum garden next Sunday 23rd 1-4pm
Guaranteed mood lifter in this miserable bit of winter.
Hot chocolate will also be part of this event. A large vat of hot chocolate.
All welcome
Rea Irvinโs โEustace Tilleyโ reimagined for the 100th anniversary @newyorker.com โฌโฉ
www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...