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31 May 2024
Still banging on about the book at festivals everywhere - do get it to keep elderly relatives quiet over summer - plus thanks to @MatthewStadlen for this interview and there were people there, honest 😉
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Jun 1
"You’ve said in the past ‘trans women are women’. Have you changed your mind?"
@JustinOnWeb asks new Health Secretary James Murray if he’s shifted his position like predecessor Wes Streeting.
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Apr 15
This is an extraordinary piece of work - one of those featured is Carole Hooven, the Harvard evolutionary biologist who lost her job for saying sex is real ...
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5m lateral movement in 3 micro steps.
Then gone.
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Apr 3
The state of the Democrats? The great @Messina2012 is …..still cautious youtu.be/SuIqGdUY6io?si=hmIi… via @YouTube
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Mar 28
Kate has written this about being trolled by scum for daring to ask reasonable questions of a tyrannical Iranian regime. The comments beneath it are heartening and true: Kate is a magnificent journalist whom Times Radio is very lucky to have.
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Mar 19
This is an extraordinary story: deserves much wider coverage but won’t get it
Mar 19
Book reviews by philosophers, notoriously, can be scathing, but a sober review of a book on gender identity by the MIT philosopher (and Academic Freedom Council co-founder) Alex Byrne was deemed too dangerous to print. "The philosophy profession has shown itself to be an institution of fragile integrity when put to the test. One can only hope spines will eventually stiffen, and academic law and order is restored." philosophersmag.com/on-being…
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Mar 6
I had two body guards, the Met Police and campus security in order to give a talk on women’s rights and free speech at University College London.
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Mar 2
What on earth were they thinking? 'just be kind,' perhaps? One for #Americast once we've dealt with current events ...
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Feb 21
Finn Russell is the best player in the world. Thank you for your attention to this matter
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Feb 17
this is going to be good if depressing
And The New Dark Ages has a cover! Bitter years of book reviewing have taught me not to get too excited and that most books are fated to be ignored. But I am finding it difficult to remain entirely jaded in this instance
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The President & the Polka 1pm @BBCRadio3 @JustinOnWeb explores the relationship between classical music and American political history. Today: Selling the American Dream - music in the service of Cold War influence. Producer Megan Jones #Bernstein bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qql…
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Our guinea pig was born under Theresa May and has seen 5 prime ministers in her lifetime. Will she live to see a 6th?
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Jan 31
Music Matters: The President and the Polka 1pm @BBCRadio3 with @JustinOnWeb Today, the musical melting pot, and the influence of immigrants and emigrés, who brought with them new ideas that would help shape the sound of American music bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qgz…
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Jan 24
- great privilege for me to do this: more to life than news 🤠
Jan 24
Today, on The President & the Polka with @JustinOnWeb -high ideals & music for the people by the people. The rise of the American city orchestra & a riot at the opera house. Features Marin Alsop & Joseph Horowitz. Music Matters 1pm @BBCRadio3 or @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q3f…
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Jan 23
This is outstanding 🥊
Jan 23
I wrote about how Trump's desire for greatness is undone by his lack of greatness of soul
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Jan 10
The @BBCRadio3 American Roadtrip continues today with @PetrocTrelawny broadcasting live from Philadelphia at 9am. And at 1pm, @JustinOnWeb explores the surprising links between classical music and US politics in our new Music Matters series, The President and the Polka.
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Jan 3
I’m 65 today - if I should fall over I have still ‘fallen over’ not ‘had a fall.’ THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER 😎
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24 Dec 2025
“It’s so good… It’s wisdom.”
Reflecting on his guest edit and leaving In Our Time after almost 30 years, Melvyn Bragg gives an emotional reading of Thomas Hardy's 'She, To Him'.
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