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Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
‘Snow in a Cambridge Heatwave’: if you have ever thought leaders in a university or other institution have their heads in the clouds, this new micro-novella could be the allegory for you.
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Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
The second, autumn, issue of the free, on-line quarterly, the Olney Review of Books (ORB) is out now, including articles on the 300th anniversary next week of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and on libraries
olneyreviewofbooks.co.uk/orb…
Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
On the Eclipse of the Moon 30th July 1776 / by Kenneth Newport olneyreviewofbooks.co.uk/on-… From the introductory issue of the Olney Review of Books, founded by my old tutor @paradoxbridge
Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
A synagogue is not an embassy.
A Jewish school is not a military target.
A Jewish child (or adult) in Britain bears no responsibility for the actions of a government thousands of miles away.
That shouldn’t need saying in 2026. It does.
Excellent piece in @thetimes by @matthewsyed
Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
Completed my time at Aston today, off to Derry tomorrow and then shuttling around these islands before launching a new quarterly, the Olney Review of Books, next summer. Thanks to students and colleagues, past and present. More details here… linkedin.com/posts/simon-lee…
Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
Launch of the appeal for the research fund in memory of My friend Michael google.com/url?q=https://www…
Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
Not an April Fool! For one day only, all 6 Marwood & Lovett novels are at 99p on Kindle. And tomorrow sees the cover reveal of my new standalone A Schooling In Murder.
Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
An exchange that makes apparent what so often is occluded: the degree to which many arguments over political values are sublimated theology.
The roots of what divides the left from the right invariably turn out to be disagreements over which particular Bible verse to emphasise
Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
Excellent thread. 😂
Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
When will the message about UPF (ultra processed foods) sink in? This is the only option for food at the @RoyalDevonNHS emergency department. @steve_race @Exeter_Hour
Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
My cartoon Saturday @TheTimes. Prints available from
timescartoons.co.uk
Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
Woooah… this is a very smart/evil scam. The web savvy will immediately spot the dodgy email address, but I bet plenty won’t.
Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
My horrifying experience of going for a much needed operation with #MECFS at @NHSHarlow and it being cancelled after waiting in pain/discomfort for hours. I have sent this to patient liaison. Education needed for everyone in accommodating ME AT THE POINT OF ENTRY.Unacceptable
Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
Don’t leave Twitter.
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Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
🚨We just dropped in on Farage’s election rally with a beaming picture of Putin. Nigel was not pleased.
Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
Donald Sutherland eating oysters in Fellini’s Casanova. Was there ever an actor more daring, feline, unpredictable? Didn’t he make some of his great 70s rivals look a bit parochial, a bit straight? I think of him as European, one of ours, reckless, dangerous, dandyish.
Yvonne Johnston 📚🎶🎟🎭🍸🌱🇮🇹 retweeted
Theologians! Now it’s time for you to feel the pain experienced by Victorianists and virologists.
