Hugely disappointed by the suspension of @RachaelMaskell from the @uklabour party. As constituent, I fully support her - and can only seen this as a sign of weakness from an increasingly out of touch and paranoid leadership.

RT @APartridgeQOTD: This man enraptured this man, made him feel sixteen again. He thought “I’m gonna wear a t-shirt with Crowded House writ….

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Interested in morris dance history? I just wrote this [Open Access] ‘Ribbon-decked poverty’: costume and performance in South Midlands morris dance

Very brief return to Twitter: I'm sure I've asked before- but has anyone got a photo I could use for a publication that shows Coll/Tiree from Iona (or at least from Mull) - or indeed any decent 'islandscape' photo taken from Iona. thnx.

Given the economic crisis sweeping through the UK HE system I was wondering if @ResEngland has any plans to scale back / reduce costs of the expensive and resource intensive Research Exercise Framework?.

Apparently it's my 11th anniversary on Twitter. However, I am no longer actively using this account; this account is now effectively moribund and not regularly monitored. Find me on the same handle on Bsky.

RT @ByJingo: @DavidPetts1 @RadioTimes I was thinking the same! Where are the answers?? Christmas is ruined @RadioTimes.

I'm always happy to moan about poor customer service- but today we had a problem with our hot water supply - reported it to @BritishGas and had a repair man with us within 40 minutes (on a Sunday morning). Credit where credits due - very impressive.

RT @NorthumbriaHist: We're hiring! Just advertised a new Research Fellow post - 3 years, £40,247/annum - funded via the AHRC-DFG project ‘U….

RT @DavidPetts1: OK- for a teaching thing I'm doing - if you could choose anyone to be commemorated by a blue plaque - who would it be? Whe….

RT @PaulSchleifer: We can and should make this true.

OK- for a teaching thing I'm doing - if you could choose anyone to be commemorated by a blue plaque - who would it be? Where would it be? And why?.

RT @jpwarchaeology: "You are too expensive for us to book for a talk!". No. You haven't properly costed your event, you don't value paying….

RT @NCLDoveMarine: Earlier this year, @UniofNewcastle students @HattAinsley @phoebe_lewis98 developed Picture This, an art science research….

RT @PippaCrerar: Reform MP James McMurdock was jailed for repeatedly kicking his former girlfriend. But he told the media it was for ‘pus….

RT @Doug_Paulley: Hi @LNER .Your shutters are down on your passenger assist meeting and info point at York, at 11am on a weekday. The tote….

RT @Doug_Paulley: Now at Chesterfield, they've just attempted to board another wheelchair user into my booked @CrossCountryUK wheelchair sp….

RT @Doug_Paulley: Hi @CrossCountryUK .As usual, you have put another wheelchair in my reserved wheelchair space on your train. It takes a….

RT @Doug_Paulley: The delay was not caused by passengers causing a disturbance on a train, it was caused by @CrossCountryUK failing to main….

For all intents and purposes I'm decamping to BlooSky - @davidpetts1.bsky.social. very limited posting on X from now on.