The most anti-intellectual, philistine government ever. Both the reason why they have no overall project and the reason why they don't realise that that's they have no overall project. And Phillipson is the embodiment of its small-mindedness.

Morally reprehensible. Cowardly. Obscene.

I watched West Germany-Netherlands at San Siro for Italia '90 (I am old), with Gullit, Matthaeus, Voeller, van Basten etc. I went again with my son 2 years ago and in the museum they have the architectural history of the stadium in photographs. The demolition is such a shame!

Some great images of the San Siro in Milan from @ftweekend.com, b/w shot from 1965. The insanity of demolishing this building. Milan should be ashamed of itself.

Ok here goes. Top 10 Booker winners: 10. Oscar & Lucinda 9. Rites of Passage 8. Woolf Hall 7. Midnight's Children 6. The Luminaries 5. Hotel du Lac 4. Possession 3. The Line of Beauty 2. The Remains of the Day 1. The Siege of Krishnapur

“Oh so some fella with an Irish-sounding name has gone and desecrated The Odyssey, is that it? Homer’s own Odyssey? The absolute cheek. And tis the talk of the town, is that what I understand you to be saying to me? And people very upset altogether? Sure I never heard the like in all my born days.”

61. But the list is underwhelming: far too many Virginia Woolf novels (her books are *dull*) and some glaring misses: La Peste, I Promessi Sposi, Les mémoirs d'Hadrien, Voss, Il Deserto dei Tartari. Also, they have however many McCarthy's but not All the Pretty Horses? www.theguardian.com/p/x4f9v5

Joining the Odyssey discourse by recommending Claire North's trilogy: Ithaca, The House of Odysseus, The Last Song of Penelope. Contemporary rewritings of Greek myths can be hit and miss, but these are really good and not predictable in the way "forgotten women from antiquity" stories often are.

Yes, Minister Blackadder Spooks The Killing The Last Kingdom Hill Street Blues Father Ted Le Bureau des Légendes Law and Order Black Sails Quincy Murder, She Wrote (I can only think of 12 by "gut instinct." Also, I am old.)

www.maptap.gg April 26 99🎯 95🏅 93🏆 83😁 99🎯 Final score: 926

Ed Davey's elections team: 👀.

My son is a Spurs fan. I'm not sure what emoji should follow this information.

However many years later but... 🇮🇹

I was the Italian national rugby team's interpreter during their tour of Scotland the year before the joined the 5/6 Nations.

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Breaking the Waves.

Do they though

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FFS every time you think you're safe and watching another event they cut back to the curling

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Unzoomed #755 3/6 🟡🟡🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com I only got it in 3 thanks to @willdalrymple.bsky.social books. (My knowledge of this country's geography is otherwise pitiable.)

The quintessences of England as gathered by market research (asking foreigners) in Julian Barnes' novel England, England.

Unzoomed #749 1/6 🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com Chuffed with this one.

@rproctor.bsky.social Not just me!

@verbivorial.bsky.social It was nice to hear you on Shedunnit! (I'm still not sold on Sayers, mind you, but I enjoyed the episode.)

Robert has been fishing quite a bit but has yet to catch a fish.

Unzoomed #724 1/6 🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com Please with the deduction from the olympic rings.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... @verbivorial.bsky.social In case you haven't spotted this... I saw it at the theatre in Bath in a double bill with An Englishman Abroad nearly 20 years ago, when I was still teaching The Untouchable, and loved it.

Unzoomed #703 1/6 🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com My son has the unzoomed eye. (I would have been way off with my first guess.)

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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild: Eagle Marmot Chamois Otter Seal

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Sssh, don't tell the other MPs. Ed Davey wins the Christmas card stakes this year.

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Imagine being in the audience for the original performance of Arcadia, with *that* cast. Sigh. Probably my favourite play ever, on paper and in performance: laugh-out-loud funny and really moving at the same time. And a country house play, to boot.

From Stoppard’s Arcadia:

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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are coming to rescue you. Who's coming to rescue you?

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Unzoomed #667 2/6 🟡🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com Kicking myself because I thought of the right answer first, then changed my mind.

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