Early modern drama/letters/Inns of Court. Somerville. Birkbeck. Book, Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters, out with EUP May 2024

Oxford, England
Joined January 2013
Delighted to say that my book comes out in paperback shortly. Available to pre-order here: edinburghuniversitypress.com… 30% off discount code is PAPER30. 🙂
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Dr Jackie Watson retweeted
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect. "Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage. You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail. Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates. Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you. And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again. And you're calling Greenland poorly run? Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no. 'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years. And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess. So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth." Credit to: Jim Keller
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Putin has the blood of thousands of Ukrainians on his hands as well that of brave Russian dissidents. The United States government has become a propaganda wing of the Kremlin.
Steve Witkoff to Putin: You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being a humanitarian. You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that, I commend you, and I thank you again.
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OMFG! This response from @AbdulElSayed to a completely bigoted question is probably the best thing I’ve heard all year. Every bigot in America needs to listen to this three times.
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A historic video – November 22, 1994: The U.S. President thanks Ukraine for giving up its nuclear weapons. In return, the U.S. promises to stand by Ukraine’s side to safeguard its independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity well into the future. That future has arrived—yet today, Trump and his circle act as if none of this ever happened. t.me/MirovichMedia/15617
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Dr Jackie Watson retweeted
Andrew Scott delivers this speech too slowly; I know some viewers will hate the way he breaks up the verse. AND YET even in spite of that I think this is the best delivery of this soliloquy I’ve ever seen. He makes it sound like it’s not a portentous speech everyone already knows but a morally serious real-time deliberation, by a highly intelligent person in extreme pain, considering what it would mean to end his own life.
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Essential viewing.
‘Australia without migrant workers’ Who made this? 👏 Mandatory viewing for any fool who still doesn’t understand the implications of slamming the gates shut.
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👏👏 @carolecadwalla for banging on about this relentlessly for 10yrs👇 Since Burnham "on entering Downing St was told clearly there 𝒘𝒂𝒔 Russian interference in Brexit" when will the successive PMs who shamefully did all they could to cover it up finally be held to account ?
NEW: Ten years on, Prime Minister @andyburnham tells @campbellclaret & @RoryStewartUK that there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. FINALLY after years of cover-ups & denials from the highest levels of the UK govt. That in itself deserves an inquiry. 1/
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American Morality Tickets to my Live Shows in London on Halloween weekend: JonathanPie.com/londonlive
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The story is bigger than some petty media infighting. It caused me extreme stress & anxiety over years but it established key facts that are now on the record. That most of the UK press failed to report on them let alone understand them is its own story. theguardian.com/uk-news/comm…
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Post this back without a stamp to: Millbank Tower, 21–24 Millbank, London, SW1P 4QP
🚨 NEW: Reform UK will mail a new eight-page newspaper "The Reformer" to over 15 million UK households in an attempt to bypass traditional media [@JAHeale]
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And this is *exactly* why we need independent journalism, folks. And the only hope of that is if people pay for it. This is not news, it's propaganda.
Reform UK is hiring at least 12 journalists to build a "national publishing operation" including a digital newsroom and expanded video output via Reform TV on Youtube
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Nigel Farage’s voting record as an MP has him 620th out of 654 MPs. He’s not sat for 24 hours total yet, never mind 24 hours a day
I don’t care if Parliament has to sit 24 hours a day. I will stop the boats in the first 100 days of a Reform government.
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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch - and all the anti-net zero zealots - getting educated about the basics of energy supply live on national TV
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Replying to @afneil
@afneil have you seen the report which says we can gain £92 billion GDP if we rejoined the Single Market. @EdwardJDavey absolutely right to position the @LibDems committed to rejoining the Single Market and Customs Union. We did help to create the Single Market under Thatcher.
Ed ‘Dismal’ Davey explicitly said in his Lib Dem conference speech that rejoining the single market/customs union would generate so much extra economic growth that there would be enough extra revenue to pay for the multi-billion pound tax cuts he proposed in the same speech. So the LD MP can hardly now claim growth is ‘irrelevant’.
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Are you a secondary English teacher looking for a great, doable, ready-to-go activity for your classes KS3-5 on @PoetryDayUK Thurs 1st Oct? Here's @EngMediaCentre's free offer this year. Note, the angle is finding wonder in small or unusual things! englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/n…
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Perhaps as a first step, Andy Burnham's government could release the full, unredacted Intelligence & Security Committee Russia Report that Boris Johnson tried so very hard to suppress?
The UK will set up a new centre to "stem the poisonous tide" of hostile state attacks, including Russian disinformation, PM Andy Burnham has said in his first major international speech at the UN General Assembly. Read more: bbc.in/3ThokSO
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