@mpscomms

Tennis, music, France, books, politics. Retweets are often to help me find them again.

 England, UK
Joined October 2009
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Replying to @BlindTasters
Sign on French wine van last week.. “Alcohol won’t solve your problems. Neither will water.”
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Radio 4 Witness History Chief Long Wolf (1833-1892) A terrific story thank you. Pictures. royalparks.org.uk/visit/park… #chief long wolf

Chief Long Wolf (1833-1892)

Chief Long Wolf died in 1892 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery

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. At last! Some meaningful EU benefits for Brits under 30 who were mostly too young to vote against the folly that was brexit! #r4today #bbcbreakfast #C4News #bbcaq #RejoinEU .
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Paul Lewis
@paullewismoneyOct 16
Step by step.
BBC World Service
@bbcworldserviceOct 16
The BBC has witnessed Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and set fire to olive trees in the occupied West Bank. 🎧 #GlobalNewsPod bbc.in/4hXVX4b

BBC World Service - Global News Podcast, Israeli settlers attack Palestinians during olive harvest

The UN says Israeli settler violence during the Palestinian olive harvest is increasing

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Carnegie Endowment
@CarnegieEndowOct 16
Students across France have been protesting for the past month. Why? What makes these protests (and others like them) so significant? Judy Lee explains. Check out the Carnegie Global Protest Tracker here: carnegieendowment.org/featur…
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Replying to @mpscomms
And a study of the Beeching cuts confirms that infrastructure was sacrificed whilst the extractive routes remained
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George Monbiot made the same point extremely well on BBC question time programme tonight. Superb. # wales extractive economy infrastructure routes. #bbcqt
Murray Goulden@murraygoulden5 Dec 2018
Replying to @Des_Fitzgerald
Remember reading a nice Monbiot piece about how Wales' colonial past as an extractive economy was still written in its transport routes. Everything east towards London. England same except tilted 90° for same effect.
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#r4today # Heathrow third runway. Read this please theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Heathrow’s third runway is a bottomless money pit. Stop it now | Simon Jenkins

It won’t promote growth, will take decades and will swallow up billions of taxpayers’ money, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

theguardian.com
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From the CCC Blog archive The Politics Of Fashion, Class Hierarchy And Transgression: Rural Migrant Women In Karaoke Bars And Japan-Korea Wave Written by Tiantian Zheng blog.westminster.ac.uk/conte…
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Dr Phil Weir@navalhistorianOct 11
It seems that @Channel4 currently has the complete series of the outstanding #WW2 documentary "The World at War" available to watch through its on demand service. *Highly* recommended (in case anyone was vaguely unaware). channel4.com/programmes/the-…
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That is why I do not support Bublik anymore.
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#DesertIslandDiscs Aria from La Wally memorably features in the film Diva. Programme played the extract from the soundtrack. Sung by Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, who starred in the film too.
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Neil Armstrong@_neilarmstrongOct 11
I think it was Christopher Hitchens who said: 'Everybody has a book in them - and in most cases that's exactly where it should stay.' #DesertIslandDiscs
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Kate Clanchy
@KateClanchy1Oct 11
Jeffrey Archer, Russell Brand, and me. Why did Pan Macmillan pick me for the witch-hunt? It a mystery . kateclanchy.substack.com/p/j…
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Madeleine Davies@MadsDaviesOct 11
‘It wasn’t Martin Amis or Iris Murdoch who was the great existentialist of the Thatcher period, but Brookner, a writer much closer to the dark edge of Europe.’ lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n17/…

Andrew O’Hagan · Omelettes and Whisky: Anita Brookner’s Edge

Over the course of 24 novels and 87 years, Anita Brookner achieved many dislocations of selfhood and may have become...

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Omg Fences at Lyric theatre! 10/10!!!
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Kathy Lette@KathyLetteOct 11
A post about fence posts. Lyric’s production of August Wilson's Pulitzer prize winning family drama totally nails it. “Fences” is about the barriers built by racism, sexism & poverty. Is the complex patriarch Troy building a fence to keep the world out, or trap his family within?
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#broadcastinghouse #bbcbh UK has a right wing dominated media, so of course Kemi Badenoch has had good media coverage.
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Heroes in German is the best version of the song je ne regrette…in English is the worst. #broadcasting house.
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#broadcastinghouse Speeding on all categories of road is as bad as ever, so many drivers accelerate up to junctions and roundabouts only to have to brake hard. People could save a lot of fuel if they drove defensively. # broadcasting house # fuel petrol price
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John@Bear_CageOct 10
Replying to @Albums200
@Albums200
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