"I refreshed myself on a couple of bottles of Guinness and a pork pie, which was only a little better than minced rubber encased in cardboard."
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14 Mar 2022
“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be welcome but when we are silent we are still afraid. So it is better to speak."
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May 19
New works, “The Post Office” and “Constance: A Confession,” and a revival of Barber’s “Vanessa” show companies attempting to speak to the moment. nyti.ms/3RQ4616
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May 19
14 year old girls are encountering boys masturbating in their bathrooms.
The adults have completely failed these girls.
Completely failed.
May 19
Shocking testimony from young girls in Maine
Males pretending to be girls are masturbating in the girl’s bathrooms and the girls are terrified to speak up
Referendum to ban boys from girls private spaces is on the ballot in Maine this Nov.
Vote YES!
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Bring back prams like this, soon, please. Enough of those monstrous modern contraptions.
A young boy reads a comic outside the bakery, Stratford upon Avon, in 1954.
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The more poetry in public places, the better.
May 18
I wonder whose idea it was to put these rather elegantly carved lines from Larkin on the wall at King’s Cross railway station? Well, I’m glad they did.
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Quick reminder: you can now book your place for the English Grammar Day on 29 June in the British Library. Bring your students!
Organised by:
Bas Aarts @ArtsHumsUCL
Jonnie Robinson @britishlibrary
and Charlotte Brewer @HertfordCollege
events.bl.uk/events/english-…
#EnglishGrammarDay
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"The opera uniforms are replaced by dark blue or khaki; buildings of red brick and red tile roofs are blasted into rubble covered with grey dust; and forests that were once dense with green leaves become a grim stubble of trunks.."
Adam Hoschild @nybooks
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The first Scarpia: Eugenio Giraldoni, who sang in the premiere of Tosca, was born #OTD in 1871. It was a family tradition - his father Leone Giraldoni was the lead baritone in the premieres of Boccanegra and Ballo, and his mother Carolina Ferni created Catalani’s Loreley.
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May 20
Good to see a critic with courage. This is a short lesson in how to say: The Emperor is Naked.
May 20
To quote the Chinese (or was it Yiddish?) proverb, "may you sing in nebulous times..."
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May 20
To quote the Chinese (or was it Yiddish?) proverb, "may you sing in nebulous times..."
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May 20
Samuel Barber’s 1958 opera was in disrepute for decades. A remarkable new production is the latest evidence of its rightful resurgence. newyorker.com/culture/the-th…
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May 18
For the avoidance of doubt, this *straight*, obsessive trans activist is openly lecturing a lesbian that she's 'selfish' for only dating other women (ie, sole definition of lesbian). Usefully, there's a word for attempting to shame gay people to date the opposite sex. #homophobia
I think I would prefer to date a kind trans lesbian woman than a selfish cis lesbian woman.
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May 20
“There appears to be this organized plan to punish anyone in the country for not adhering to gender ideology. So is it worth fighting that? 100%. Because if we can’t look at a man & say that’s a man we literally don’t live in a free society.”
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May 19
The NHS put a mentally ill woman in a men’s psychiatric ward and she was raped within ONE HOUR. Do you understand now what a woman is and why that matters, Health Secretary @jamesmurray_ldn??
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May 20
A vulnerable 5' 3" female was raped after being admitted onto an all-male secure psychiatric ward.
Sex-denial is not safe policy. Denying reality doesn't make it any less real, the NHS knows this. Reality was played out here in the most brutal way.
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May 19
The 'tomboy' characters in Enid Blyton books were important role models for girls who didn't conform to 'girly' stereotypes. These characters told them 'you're fine as you are.'
Now girls are given the opposite message. Now they have to turn into boys to be okay.
Went to see Malory Towers tonight in Coventry - quite a gorgeous production but ‘Bill’, the only tomboy in the all girls school,has of course been trans’d
So the many little girls in the audience are taught the stereotypical girls are girls,the gender non conforming ones are boys
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21 Apr 2024
This is one of the best public schools in the state. People move to a very expensive area just to send their children to this school. An avenue of quality education ruined for girls, to embolden male sexual entitlement.
21 Apr 2024
At what point do lawmakers admit they got it wrong and this bullshit doesn’t work in a functioning society, @StevenJMiles?
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19 Aug 2025
Amani Reed will now have to pay thousands of dollars in attorney’s fees after a court in Nashville partially dismissed his baseless lawsuit. Reed had filed a meritless defamation claim as an intimidation tactic. Reed is a member of the @NAISnetwork board.
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17 Nov 2025
Ex-University School of Nashville director files $21M suit, claims racial discrimination tennessean.com/story/news/lo…
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5 Sep 2025
My latest in Chicago Contrarian. On the prep school lemmings who’ve fallen for the “Global Citizenship” @NAISnetwork Orwellian “newspeak”brand identity
5 Sep 2025
In a follow up to a piece written in 2024, J.D. Busch writes of Chicago's elite schools all singing to the same "global citizenship" choir.
Busch asks: Why and how is this hymnal turning girls into Gretas?
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