@Gerontius1

Politically left. Accumulator of books. Guitarist. Singer. Journaler. Reposts to compensate for the appalling lack of political education in our country.

 Carmarthen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Joined February 2009
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Gerontius is on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/4rPrEccYrb…

Gerontius

“Music should be holy; it shouldn’t be business.” Jerry Garcia “Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.” Miles Davis “You must be prepared to work always without applause

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If you consider yourself to be a serious political journalist and you still resort to asking your interviewee, “Does Isra*l have the right to exist?”……….You’re not.
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The beheading last week of the Bangladeshi couple in Saudi Arabia is the most appalling, disgusting, inhumane act carried out by a state that I have seen in years, and that includes the genocide in Gaza. Where is the outrage from our government?
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I believe the following: Pink Floyd should have stopped after Animals Yes after Going for the One Led Zeppelin after Presence Genesis after Wind & Wuthering Oasis before they started Zionism is racism
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In his excellent piece in the current edition of @NewStatesman , @EdConwaySky refers to something ‘lurching upwards’. Can a lurch be vertical, though? I always envisage a lurch as being horizontal.
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I play several stringed instruments and have an A level in economics. I am therefore available for any future expert panel on politics and economics that the BBC would like to assemble.
BBC Newsnight
@BBCNewsnightOct 16
"(Burnham) says he doesn't want to be divisive and yet he brings up the most divisive issue of the last 10 years" Ex-Mumford & Sons member turned podcaster Winston Marshall says Andy Burnham's stance on Brexit won't be popular with "Red Wall" voters. #Newsnight
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The falsehood forever foisted on the gullible working classes. The truth is that there is already plenty of wealth, but its distribution is grotesquely unequal.
BBC Newsnight
@BBCNewsnightOct 16
"If you want to lift up the poor, you have to create wealth." "How's that going?" Podcaster and former Mumford & Sons member Winston Marshall discusses taxes with economist and Green Party supporter Faiza Shaheen. #Newsnight
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I have been struck down by the mother of all lurgies and have spent this week wallowing in a veritable slough of despond. ☹️
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At least they weren’t foetuses. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm89…

Children and teacher killed in Oregon primary school shooting

A teacher was also killed in the attack at the Silver Rail Elementary School in the city of Bend, Oregon, police say.

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Every. Single. Word.
Rhyd1588@DraigmelynOct 15
Clywch Clywch!!!!! Unionists have always held Cymru back. #bbcqt
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Another day, another pointless set of media interviews about migration. One day, a politician will stand up and concede that no individual state can ‘solve the problem’. Global migration is largely the consequence of global wealth inequality. Address this and things might change.
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‘A Smile in the Kingdom of the Sad’ by Gerontius is on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/pR6cxem3K5…
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There will come a time when @RobertPlant is recognised as one of the greatest musical influences of modern times, not just because of his work, but also his promotion of others. AND he knows my home town AND he spoke Welsh from the Knebworth stage in 1979. Diolch yn fawr. ❤️
 Vexmort【ツ】⛨ _♰ _ ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊°.~♡︎ ⛨@dw3lOct 13
Criterion para los cinéfilos. Nonesuch para los melómanos.
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@DalrympleWillOct 12
Tragic but super important tweet
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What’s interesting about polls that show Israeli society is callously, overwhelmingly pro-genocide is that no US liberal zionist politician or pundit is EVER asked about this central fact. Ever. It’s just never talked about in US discourse because it’s grossly inconvenient.
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Extraordinary letter in @ft from former UK defence attaché at Moscow embassy - we warned you about Putin but you listened to the City instead
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Actually, having recently broken up a fight outside Caffè Nero in Carmarthen recently, I think I deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.
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