Mozart and Tolkien nerd, X Box player, croissant lover, former Legal Beagle, Masters in History, aspiring Byzantinist. Deus miserere.
Hampshire mostly
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This is a page from Venetus A, the first complete copy of The Iliad in Greek. It was composed by scribes in Constantinople in the 10th Century AD c.950. Each page comprises of the text of The Iliad plus marginal notes.
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Oh do bee have !!! #Medieval
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“This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast – man’s laws, not God’s – and, if you cut them down d’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake”
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How can a good God let you suffer and die?
Tolkien said a 600 year old poem had the answer to this question
He spent over 25 years reading, studying and teaching it to students
Here’s the poem, and what it taught him about God, grief, and finding hope in the face of death…🧵
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“They buried him among the Kings”
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Today is Martinmas, the feast of St Martin of Tours, a major festival in medieval Europe which heralded the approach of winter with fire and feasting.
St Martin is the patron saint of soldiers, often shown sharing his cloak with a poor man to protect him from the winter cold.
Parkinson - The Goons (BBC) youtu.be/Bhtu-n936Wo?is=rmX_… via @YouTube…this is hilarious but it’s sadly now a world which has vanished. I feel very fortunate to remember some of it.
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Lucy Powell Had Tweeted 11,600 Times by Time of Mili-Brand Interview order-order.com/2026/11/10/l…
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Treasonous.
🚨Burnham’s Leaked EU Draft Keeps Foreign Boats in British Waters Until 2038
Andy Burnham is set to rubber-stamp the same damaging deal Keir Starmer struck: a leaked draft for the 20 November UK-EU summit openly “welcomes” European vessels keeping full access to British waters until 2038, with zero push for a better share for UK fishermen.
Coastal communities that were promised real control after Brexit are once again being treated as disposable bargaining chips so Labour can chase closer EU ties on trade and energy.
Industry leaders say the arrangement leaves British fleets squeezed while foreign boats continue operating freely in UK waters.
In short, Burnham is prepared to watch the British fishing industry decline rather than risk upsetting Brussels.
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Sometimes I come across posts I’ve saved in my photos that still to this day fill me with incredulity and rage.
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THE MAKERFIELD COUP
1. He wasn't even an MP until weeks beforehand.
2. The normal sequence was extraordinarily compressed.
3. The public didn't elect him Prime Minister.
4. His immediate political mandate was peculiar.
5. He arrived with unusually little recent Westminster policy exposure.
... but the really strange part:
It's not that Britain got a PM without a general election. That's quite normal constitutionally. Major, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak all initially became PM without winning a general election as leader.
What's exceptional is the speed and route:
Mayor of Greater Manchester → parliamentary candidate → wins one by-election → Labour leader → Prime Minister, **all within a matter of weeks**.
Highly suspicious.
The sudden "getting closer to EU" is the key clue.
Who enabled his rise? Who funded the troops to get him where he is now? What does he owe these masters?
