@SimonTPetherick

Writer and ghostwriter. @GWAgencyghosts https://xitter.cf/t.co/l4Re61Ig2E https://xitter.cf/t.co/kKdrXlVF0E

 London and Cornwall
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“An artist does not live a personal life as we do...underneath all his preoccupations...there is, quite simply, a man tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.” Clea writes to the narrator in Lawrence Durrell's Justine.
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“This is the way this machine has to operate” says @barneyronay in this visceral takedown of the ultimate effect on football, with Man U the prime example, of the pursuit of money above all else. theguardian.com/football/202…

Elite-level incompetence is Manchester United’s problem – not Michael Carrick | Barney Ronay

Getting rid of Michael Carrick is not going to solve the problems that led to his appointment. Perhaps it’s worth, for once, doing something different

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So true! I haven't forgotten every book I've lost to this game.
Bruno
@sigabruninhoOct 13
Galera, não me levem a mal, mas se vocês pegaram um livro emprestado com alguém há muito tempo e acham que a pessoa esqueceu, deixa eu te falar: ELAS NÃO ESQUECERAM.
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Barbarian Herodotus
@BBHerodotusOct 8
Ernest Hemingway, looking much like many of us probably do at home with our wives.
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They're culling the inestimable Winifred Robinson and keeping the raft of abysmally unfunny "comedians" who loiter on the bandwidth in the early evening. Utterly unserious broadcaster.
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@BBCNewsOct 8
BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours bbc.in/473sVLE

BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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I love that book. The image of him down on the rocks in the sea with a notebook and pen, trying to write down how the sea is speaking…
la femme complètement invisible@lapitiedangOct 2
“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark,singing,swigging wine,spitting,jumping, running —that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach....” Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums published on 10- 2 -58 Photo Allen Ginsberg
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Mark Fiddes@fiddesmarkOct 1
Make it a @PoetryDayUK of WONDER. From Kafka’s balcony today in Prague.
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On how to behave badly... whatthetidereveals.substack.…
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Without a doubt, my favourite novel.
John McNally / Johnny Mack@JMcNallyBooksOct 1
Ford Madox Ford / The Good Soldier Penguin
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Maude Frome@frome_maudeSep 30
#October by Eugene Grasset, from The Months, an #artnouveau #calendar (1896) #Halloween is coming #FolkloreSunday
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Having just seen both de Gaulle films, it was striking to read in The Cauldron by @simonmontefiore how Mohammed V of Morocco resisted the Vichy attempts to round up Jews. "There are no Jews in Morocco. Just Moroccans...I absolutely don't approve of the new antisemitic laws."
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Michael Spicer
@MrMichaelSpicerSep 30
Most TV is just this now.
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Oh, to have been there.
La femme merveilleuse invisible@larwoolfSep 29
Michelangelo Antonioni, September 29, 1912 – July 30, 2007. Monica Vitti and Michelangelo Antonioni at the premiere of L’avventura (1960) in Paris
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Really interesting conversation, where @ProfSteveKeen draws a comparison between the control of AI and the control of water in the UK since privatisation, making a case for public ownership of AI development — slow and boring being better than fast and inventive!
Prof. Steve Keen
@ProfSteveKeenSep 25
'They’ve Lost Control!' Why AI bosses are begging for regulation | Andre... youtu.be/5xkiVlT-7Ac?si=f1R_… via @YouTube

'They’ve Lost Control!' Why AI bosses are begging for regulation | Professor Steve Keen

On this edition of The Andrew Neil Report, the veteran broadcaster ...

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In the ‘80s and ‘90s, you could get this dish in cafes all over Soho: liver, bacon, onions, chips, beans, gravy. Now, not a single outlet serves it. So every so often, I have to make it myself to remind myself of how well we lived.
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Thanks to the recommendation from @ClarkeMicah I went to see the new French de Gaulle film today, based on Julian Jackson's remarkable biography which I read a couple of years ago. The film is outstanding and very moving, an inspirational triumph of courage and commitment.
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Glenn Gould 25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982 Bach's Goldberg Variations in 1981
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"Like it or not, everything comes back to Taiwan. America knows it. China knows it. Only the mainstream media, as usual, have missed the bleeding obvious."
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@spikedonlineSep 26
Forget the AI race, trade or rare earths. Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping was about one thing: Taiwan. The potential for military conflict over this small democratic nation is what keeps both up at night, says James Woudhuysen buff.ly/f8a6zFC

The Trump-Xi summit was about one thing: Taiwan

Forget AI and trade, the potential for military conflict is what’s preoccupying the two superpowers.

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"After he left the House of Commons, Ashdown was a plausible candidate for the secretary-general of NATO. Davey would hardly be credible as a candidate for moderator on Mumsnet." @TheSimonEvansX in cracking form: spiked-online.com/2026/09/24…

Ed Davey: how the middling have fallen

The Lib Dems’ buffoonish leader makes Boris Johnson look like Lord Palmerston.

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Prof. Frank McDonough@FXMC1957Sep 24
PHOTO OF THE DAY. A woman in New York City walking her dog in the driving rain (1957). 📷 Saul Leiter
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