- Wed, 12:56: Important. https://t.co/oWCwKeAbmi
- Wed, 15:00: Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism, by Marina Warner Explores Joan as woman, hero, warrior, prophet; goes on to her later influence on literature, French politics, church authority, and concepts of sexuality. #nwbooks https://t.co/fxgXFN93Bi https://t.co/y22w0ZTsoq https://t.co/IgLG0GmZCh
- Wed, 15:20: Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany Delany’s city Bellona is a state of mind, detached from the USA; strange things happen in the sky; the central character’s own sense of time is as skewed as the local newspaper’s chronology. #nwbooks https://t.co/YD0ggA3Hdm https://t.co/zs59ai46dI https://t.co/kRcYi3nPwN
- Wed, 15:40: Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English, by @JohnHMcWhorter Fascinating stuff. Were the speakers of Proto-Germanic around 500 BC strongly influenced by a Semitic language? And much else. #nwbooks https://t.co/U2cNtWHJpZ https://t.co/UbxjMGM4ws https://t.co/9ThniNRkF5
- Wed, 15:44: RT @bbclaurak: Deal passes the commons by 521 to 73
- Wed, 16:00: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee The first step in a presidential election campaign that never happened. Much about frontier life, combat with tribes and white men; and bear hunting. #nwbooks https://t.co/JdlyDwQvzC https://t.co/obQrVtAB1H https://t.co/hkLKln8Grp
- Wed, 16:00: New Belgian restrictions on incoming travellers who have spent more than 48 hours in a “red zone”: compulsory coronavirus test the day you return to Belgium and again on the 7th day. https://t.co/Owk8kyUwPk
- Wed, 16:05: Satirist Rory Bremner ‘saved John Major’s bacon’ with a hoax call which charmed a staunch Eurosceptic Tory MP https://t.co/xP01Uk4Ftl Story of the day!
- Wed, 16:20: The case of the missing books, by Ian Sansom First of a series; I don’t think I’ll bother with the rest – there’s a little too much pointing and laughing at the funny Irish people, and the actual plot is wafer-thin. #nwbooks https://t.co/pluP7LbCi8 https://t.co/mOj6fmjE73 https://t.co/vk8ymaF6Dm
- Wed, 16:40: A History of the Future, by Peter J. Bowler Futurology as perpetrated both by science fiction writers and by popular science writers, mainly in the UK but also the USA, in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. #nwbooks https://t.co/04FDx7Oeup https://t.co/qztS3Q8YHS https://t.co/F28WJDI7nw
- Wed, 17:01: Zola and his time, by Matthew Josephson Very interesting to see the connection between Zola’s radical political activity and beliefs, and (more important to him) his breaking the conventions of novel-writing. #nwbooks https://t.co/Wh58Gb6pYG https://t.co/Qvleehm2xg https://t.co/40CevyZ34s
- Wed, 17:11: RT @mollydot: @nwbrux Just from that sample, I can tell it needs an editor.
- Wed, 17:20: Democracy and its Deficits, by Ghia Nodia et al I know Georgia and Moldova fairly well, Ukraine less so, and found the analysis of all three countries convincing and enlightening as well as sober and sympathetic. #nwbooks https://t.co/iSZPuyrr35 https://t.co/13gpEl8ijS
- Wed, 17:40: Freddie Mercury: An Illustrated Biography, by Mark Blake The pictures are gorgeous; the camera loved him, and even in the snapshots of his pre-fame personality he rather glows. #nwbooks https://t.co/XvGTfm3hZ7 https://t.co/IB3Cr29wVF https://t.co/eQI9Nno2VC
- Wed, 18:00: Factfulness, by Hans Rosling ‘Factfulness’, clearly intended as a close relative of mindfulness, is defined as “the stress-reducing habvit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.” Brilliant stuff. https://t.co/a34BrNtQIC https://t.co/80Imna4oBF https://t.co/0Ck8xiPo4j
- Wed, 18:10: House of Music: raising the Kanneh-Masons, by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason https://t.co/KKjxuCm3z3
- Wed, 19:09: RT @PJMahon: This fascinating – and free – bilingual issue of the Journey Planet SF fanzine is on the Soviet/Russian space programme & SF.…
- Wed, 19:16: A girl meets a cute robot boy… The moon is a frontier for human greed… Women battle men in the post-apocalyptic wilderness… 2021 as seen by twentieth century science fiction: https://t.co/jJjSB9msme
- Wed, 19:27: RT @davidallengreen: This by @jnpowell1 on the five reasons the UK failed in the Brexit negotiations is absolutely spot on Many of us watc…
- Wed, 20:48: Wow, that certainly is, er, hopeful. https://t.co/sdOayUQavR
- Thu, 09:30: Whoniversaries 31 December https://t.co/HYUjr3yJgJ
- Thu, 09:49: RT @Cripipper: I’m so glad control has been taken back. So, so glad. #Brexit https://t.co/D57wwgqImC
- Thu, 10:45: Excellent as ever. https://t.co/QjERxLHjG2
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