Richard McCarthy

The translator liberates the language imprisoned in a work - Walter Benjamin -

FR/EN translator and career-switching fledgling horticulturist

[Richard McCarthy @Barsacq]

@FisherTomlin Shame, no total figure given for whole of UK.

[Richard McCarthy @Barsacq]

@FisherTomlin More than is covered by housing, I bet. Now let's see

[Richard McCarthy @Barsacq]

@hardyplants Thanks. That one makes more sense for swans

[Richard McCarthy @Barsacq]

As punishment for defrauding taxpayer of £68 million, Chris Grayling's awarded Serco a £120m contract #MOJ http://t.co/TPs2C00rao

[Richard McCarthy @Barsacq]

Some really thick replies to @NickCohen4's article on @MumsnetTowers. Most of them clearly haven't even read it; classic web knee-jerkism

[Richard McCarthy @Barsacq]

@EmmmaB @JaneToft His reverend and dachshund collector @RevRichardColes may be interested

[Richard McCarthy @Barsacq]

@wood5y @TripeUK Or just let it chill in the sink for a bit

[Richard McCarthy @Barsacq]

@HillierBath Likewise

[Richard McCarthy @Barsacq]

@hardyplants Another name for it appears to be Wild Swan, which is even dafter as I've never come across a tame one.

[Richard McCarthy @Barsacq]

@Just_Will_I_am Besides, innumerable people campaigned for Turing and none of them are craving media attention.

[Richard McCarthy @Barsacq]

@Just_Will_I_am Maybe you should research the legal nonsense a pardon is for a dead man instead of glory-hunting, me-me-me-me-meLib Dem

[Richard McCarthy @Barsacq]

Merry Christmas to all followers, old and new, and thanks for all RTs and favs

[Hardy's Plants @hardyplants]

Good morning ... Hopefully
ANEMONE 'Ruffled Swan'

[Richard McCarthy @Barsacq]

@hardyplants Great name, though little chance of seeing a real one; they're always so immaculately turned out.

[Richard McCarthy @Barsacq]

@CTC_Cyclists It's got some brass neck. Councils are too skint to repair them - thanks to central government.

[Jerry Barnett @JerryBarnett]

The Tories on porn: "Free markets, but not THOSE free markets". Labour on porn: "Human rights, but not THOSE human rights" #CensoredUK

[Tom Phillips @flashboy]

The Turing thing really does annoy me. If you're going to make a purely symbolic gesture, the symbolism needs to be right. And this isn't.

[Tom Phillips @flashboy]

It's just putting up a sign outside the past: "You must be THIS much of a genius for us to belatedly regret persecuting you."

[Richard McCarthy @Barsacq]

RT "@Just_Will_I_am DM on here if you want to talk to me about my part in his pardon." << Shameless, self-centred glory hunter

[Richard McCarthy @Barsacq]

@Just_Will_I_am @PaulBrittonMEN Oh look, Twitter, we've got us an Alan Turing glory hunter, a certain William Jones.