
Ian Spoor @iaspo
@ian_spoor
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Latin and Greek are not dead languages, merely immortal. They are no more dead than Shakespeare and Chaucer are dead literature.
Newcastle upon Tyne
Joined April 2011
RIP my cat Marcus Licinius Cattus, my best friend, my rock, my support and my comfort. He was three years old. aue atque uale
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Trump claims that “Biden’s FBI” placed 274 agents into the crowd on January 6. Except Biden wasn’t president. Trump was.
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People complaining about the art installation at a cathedral don't seem to be displaying very Christian attitudes
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Buon compleanno, Giuseppe Verdi! The great composer was born at Roncole 212 years ago today.
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Brilliant actor, never gave a bad performance. And what a CV.
We are sad to announce the passing of our client, the actor John Woodvine, who died peacefully at home at the age of 96 this morning. A wonderful and well loved actor, who will be much missed. He is survived by his actress wife Lynn Farleigh & his children Mary and Emma.
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Poet and broadcaster @MichaelRosenYes paid tribute to the late poet and playwright Tony Harrison on @BBCRadio4's Last Word (from 7:52). Bloodaxe's tribute is on our website page below: https://t.co/mBJUi3DlUX
https://t.co/QA1yeXVNPM
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Matthew Bannister on a primatologist, a poet, a politician and a bass player.
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Almost finished Benbecula by @GMacraeBurnet and once again I am always amazed at the crafting of each word, sentence and paragraph. Another masterpiece, and I mean that.
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Acquisition. My first read for autumn, and what a better start than a novel from the brilliant @GMacraeBurnet
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Very sad news: the outstanding German baritone Franz Grundheber died yesterday, on his 88th birthday.
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We are immensely saddened by news of the death of Tony Harrison, aged 88, who had been unwell for some years. A tribute has been published on our website: https://t.co/mBJUi3DlUX
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It was this day in 2013 that Classicists settled down to watch the TV series #Atlantis - I probably advised them to have cup of tea and a box of blood pressure tablets to hand
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In these challenging times I sometimes agree with Plato's views on democracy...but I struggle to see any viable alternative
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Last songs: Richard Strauss died 76 years ago today.
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BBC News is now running a full-blown recruitment campaign for Reform. This report, by the BBC political editor, doesn't even make a stab at neutrality in its breathless enthusiasm for Farage Reform conference shows party's growing ambition https://t.co/kiV6ZLACEh
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The conference feels like that of a big party - but retains the insurgency vibe that the party is seeking to channel.
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Just received a third refund from companies for non delivery of goods. All deliveries were supposedly made by Evri. At least the companies made immediate refunds
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On Tuesday Nigel Farage will publish his proposals for mass deportations, Prison camps, leaving the European Convention on Human Rights & scrapping the Human Rights Act, quitting the Refugee Convention and the UN Convention against Torture - is that the kind of country we want?
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Umbesetzung Gurnemanz in Parsifal am 17. August! – Bayreuther Festspiele
bayreuther-festspiele.de
Georg Zeppenfeld kann krankheitsbedingt die morgige Vorstellung von Parsifal leider nicht singen. Die Partie des Gurnemanz wird dankenswerterweise von Günther Groissböck übernommen.
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Wagner’s Siegfried and Götterdämmerung premiered in Bayreuth on two consecutive days. The first on this day in 1876 and the latter on 17 August This is Wagner's living room in Tribschen near Lucerne where he composed these masterpieces on his Erard piano, seen here
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Rhine journey: the first complete cycle of Der Ring des Nibelungen began with Das Rheingold at Bayreuth @WagnerFestival #OTD in 1876.
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“Alexandrian Sphinx” by Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis review – the mysterious life of Constantine Cavafy
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The enigmatic queer poet admired by EM Forster and Jackie Onassis takes centre stage in this unconventional biography
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