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I've donated a signed guitar to help raise funds for the restoration of Olympic Studios in London, where I recorded three of my albums.
The guitar is now available in the Olympic Sound Studios fundraising auction.
You can find out more here:
olympicsoundstudios.indy.auc…
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I shared Tara Bergin's Forward Prize winning poem with my online group in Afghanistan yesterday and this is Shadmana's response. It's a 🧵 but worth it. She's 16.
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These idiots who attempt to insult my appearance don’t know the difference between “autonomy” and “anatomy”
😂
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The response to my Oxford Street post highlights exactly what disabled people face right now. Can't have accessibility, shouldn't have benefits, count yourselves lucky for crumbs, stop complaining. Tug that forelock. My arse.
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The Dark, by James Herbert. This is the New English Library 5th edition (hardback) from 1988, though the novel was originally released in 1980.
I've noted before there are surprisingly few movie adaptations of Herbert novels. An Australian version of The Survivor was released in 1981 with Robert Powell and Jenny Agutter, both fine actors, and 1995 saw versions of Fluke and Haunted hit the big screen, but it's not much.
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I've posted an very moving short story by my student Brennig Davies on the other place (Links below). I've put up lots of Bren's poems here - now he has 2 books and he is only 26. Teachers - this would be perfect for the classroom and its free to share.
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Wow, NYTimes says on schooling, what is really effective: Science of reading, rating on test scores
And worst: smaller class sizes and increasing all teacher pay (and, surprisingly, school vouchers?)
nytimes.com/2026/09/28/upsho…
archive.ph/FNDc2
teapaw.org/BjornLomborg/status/21…
Wow, NYTimes says on schooling, what is really effective: Science of reading, rating on test scores
And worst: smaller class sizes and increasing all teacher pay (and, surprisingly, school vouchers?)
nytimes.com/2026/09/28/upsho…
archive.ph/FNDc2
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Christmas is coming....🎄 How about buying a copy of @WhenCarryOn @penswordbooks for your favourite person. Described as "essential reading" in The Oldie. Friends please RT for greater impact. Thank you. #WhenTheCarryOnStopped 🎄
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"See me in me heels and ting
Dem check, sey we hip and ting
True dem no know an'ting
We have dem going and ting
Nah pop no style, I strictly roots
Nah pop no style, I strictly roots
See me 'pon de road, I 'earin' you call out to me
True you see me in m'pants and ting..."
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On this day in 1893, Lillian Gish was born in Springfield, OH. I asked her if actors in silent films had a script with dialogue to memorize or if they were just given a general idea of what was being said in the scene and they ad-libbed the words. This was her remarkable reply:
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A lady told me her daughter skipped my talk because its subject, Queen Caroline, ‘isn’t in Bridgerton’. Fair point.
But Caroline refereed a dispute between Newton and Leibniz, had her daughters inoculated against smallpox when Britain thought it madness, and hid a secret from her ladies that killed her.
The cleverest queen consort we've ever had, my favourite queen is all but forgotten today! Read about her in the next tweet down👇
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🖤MVP Martine Beswick! Not exactly pc by today’s standards I guess but for me Sister Hyde feels liberated rather than simply evil. Plus the men policing her are hardly paragons of virtue. The film doesn't need to be wholly progressive for that tension to be interesting. So good!
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Yes- completely different and new remastering. Completely new mix. Huge upgrade. And… yes… from the negative, which gives the image a huge range!
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Looking forward to being part of Back Nuclear Energy week!
I’ll be speaking on:
People Power: Building Britain’s Nuclear Energy Future
🗓️ Wednesday 14 October
⏰ 12:00 BST
🎟️ Book your free ticket >
backnuclearenergy.com/keynot…
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Stan Laurel talks about his early days and working with Charlie Chaplin before teaming up with Oliver Hardy
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At the splendid Isle of Wight Book Festival, talking about my memoir I’m Still Here with my wife and co-writer Hilary Bonner. I really wanted to call it Carry On Breathing, but they wouldn’t let me…
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This is a whole *NHS integrated care board* - responsible for almost all primary care in Sussex - arguing in court that evidence-based medicine is just an opinion 🤯
because she held a protected belief in the integrity of evidence-based medicine. The respondent defends all claims and specifically the latter claim by pleading that evidence-based medicine is just an opinion, not cogent or coherent and not relevant to a weighty or substantial aspect of human life and behaviour
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THE NANNY starring Bette Davis opened in London at the Carlton Haymarket, on this day October 7th, 1965, before going wider the following month with THE WALLS OF HELL..
