Mark McKinty מרקוס علامة

PhD graduate of @ModLangs_QUB @QueensUBelfast: travel writing, (anti)tauromaquia, cultural identity. Creator of @ProyectoNoel.

[JPCampbellBiz @JP_Biz]

There is a precedent for suspending the operation of the Common Travel Area for security reasons. It was during WW2 & meant there were quite intense controls on travel between NI & GB. Probably not an outcome anyone wants to see today.

[Mark McKinty מרקוס علامة @DrMMck]

@JonTonge FPTP or PR selection by the panel? 😊

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

The first 10 #Penguin #paperbacks spotted at the @natlibscot #Edinburgh first printed in July 1935 for sixpence-the cost of a cigarette pack, democratizing #literature. As the story goes, publisher #AllenLane was on a way back from a visit to see #AgathaChristie. having nothing to #read, he used the time on the train back to #London (from Exeter) to draw a plan to publish reprints of the best hardbacks in attractive, easily & cheaply available paperbacks. He would call these books #Penguins (of course among the first lot were Christie’s books).
And to think both I and my brother @j_bindra have published with @penguinrandom ! @PenguinIndia @PenguinBooks @PenguinUKBooks
#Libraries

[Mark McKinty מרקוס علامة @DrMMck]

@Aldamir @Tolstoy1999 @McKinleyAn I think it's the academic hood for an Honorary Doctorate in Divinity, usually conferred upon incoming Moderators by the Presbyterian Theological Faculty, Ireland.

[Hernan Larrain M. @HernanLarrain]

Recomendable lectura.
@GarrochoS captura muy bien una tentación de nuestro tiempo: escuchar solo aquello que confirma nuestras convicciones y omitir el resto. Quizás por eso el discurso de León XIV incomoda.

https://t.co/dAKnMSxYEj

[Noticias Nuestra España @esnuestraespana]

🟥 Intento de boicot independentista: expulsados 600 cantantes por querer imponer «Els Segadors» y esteladas en la Sagrada Familia

👉https://t.co/P7K1PZ0VKS

¡Síguenos para más noticias!
#NuestraEspaña #Noticias #Política #Boicot #SagradaFamilia #Separatismo#Cataluña

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

We owe those who serve the UK the kit to do the job and the loyalty to stand by them when it's done. We are failing on both.

I’ve spent my whole time in government making that case. Number 10 will not listen, so I am resigning as Minister for the Armed Forces.

Letter to the PM below.🫡🫡🫡⬇️⬇️

[Translink @Translink_NI]

❗ In light of recent events, there will be alterations to bus and rail services this evening (11th June 2026).

For full details - https://t.co/yNEDB8dphr

[Embassy of Spain UK @EmbSpainUK]

Take 10 min. to watch one of the most significant moments in the history of the Sagrada Família

Pope Leo XIV blessed the Tower of Jesus Christ in the ceremony marking the centenary of Gaudí’s death,attended by King Felipe,Queen Letizia &President Sánchez.

[Catsèries @_catseries]

Avui fa 100 anys de la mort del mestre Antoni Gaudí. I a ‘Les tres bessones i Gaudí’, la seva mort es representa poèticament: en lloc de ser atropellat per un tramvia, se’l veu pujant-hi i retrobant-se amb el seu amor de joventut.

Pell de gallina. Sempre referents.

[RTVE Noticias @rtvenoticias]

#VisitaPapaRTVE | Simplemente, impresionante 🎇

Un espectáculo de drones devuelve a la vida a Gaudí en el centenario de su muerte y le recuerda con su mítica cita: "Primero el amor, después la técnica".

[Òscar Merino 🎙🏀 @OMerinoG]

Brutal

[John Healey @JohnHealey_MP]

My letter to the Prime Minister

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

¡Vemos por primera vez la torre de Jesucristo iluminada!
El espectáculo de luz iniciado desde la base hasta la iluminación de la cruz ha culminado con una composición de luces guiadas por drones, que han dibujado la figura de Gaudí y la frase «primero el amor, después la técnica».

[Mark McKinty מרקוס علامة @DrMMck]

@jonathan_church @RhonddaBryant How close have you been to it? It's superb and completely unique! So many stories told on its façade.

[Mark McKinty מרקוס علامة @DrMMck]

I'm excited now to have moved up to Level 6 as a Crisis Volunteer at @MHI_Charity, having taken more than 250 conversations with texters struggling to cope.

Shout is a text support service for mental health in the UK.

For free, confidential support 24/7 text 'Shout’ to 85258 💜

[Association for Male Health and Wellbeing @AMHW_UK]

We're delighted with the excellent documentary Sir Gareth has made, which gets to the heart of our core issues, & we're very proud of all who contributed to its production, including AMHW Trustees Mark Brooks of @CPRMenBoys & @SShaljean of Lads Need Dads https://t.co/GjcfVG1hqz

[Mark McKinty מרקוס علامة @DrMMck]

@panoparker @AdamPollock this is very you 😆

[Mario Opazo @OpazoMario_]

Las cadenas de la Catedral de Sevilla no son decorativas. Durante siglos marcaron el límite del asilo eclesiástico: quien las cruzaba quedaba bajo la protección de la Iglesia y fuera de la jurisdicción civil. Un vestigio medieval que aún puede verse hoy.

#Sevilla #Historia #CatedralDeSevilla #Patrimonio

[Mark Coughlan @mjc0ughl4n]

This would be marvellous to see. It's difficult to underestimate the significance of the Tyndale Bible. The first (albeit incomplete) English language Bible to be translated directly from the original Hebrew and Greek texts, it is said that up to 80–90% of the King James New Testament echoes William Tyndale’s phrasing.

It was Tyndale's mission that everyone should have access to the Bible in their own language or, in his own words "to cause the boy that driveth the plough to know the Scripture." Indeed, Tyndale gave us some memorable and enduring phrases such as "Let there be light..."; "The powers that be..."; "The spirit is willing..."; and "Fight the good fight..."

For his pains, Tyndale was hunted across Europe, betrayed, strangled, and burned at the stake in 1536.