Glyn Hughes

Editor of Squashed Books galore, pursuer of wisdom, design, sculpture, @jumbly, cheap wine. Critical critic in the evenings. And,Yes, that's where we live

[Glyn Hughes @SquashedBox]

It's Sunday, so time for one of my Nicely Abridged Books.
As gloom and thunder threaten, how about a half-hour with the original Frankenstein...
https://t.co/qmkclqM6nr

[Glyn Hughes @SquashedBox]

@keithfrankish A good moment to repeat this glorious little reappraisal of the British Empire, from one its finest historians, Jan Morris...
https://t.co/wSyEL5fjsK

[Keith Frankish @keithfrankish]

In retrospect, I think, the second Elizabethan era will be seen as a time when Britain repeatedly tried and failed to become a normal European nation. It failed because it couldn't properly wake from the dream of empire. I hope it will keep trying.

[Glyn Hughes @SquashedBox]

@keithfrankish @keith_wilson @Helenreflects It's comparison again, Keith!
We compare what we find with what we've found before, if it matches, it's good, if it doesn't, it's bad. That's it.

[Glyn Hughes @SquashedBox]

Theologians. How's this... "We expect you to believe in God, but we don't ask you to know what God is. You discover that for yourself"

@CandlerTheology @AJWTheology @LivedTheology @PTRBirmingham @UoN_CoTP

[Glyn Hughes @SquashedBox]

No, @BBCnews Truss isn't spending anything. We're spending everything.

[AuthorJ&M @JandMo]

RT - In today's J&M, Jesus describes the road to sainthood:
https://t.co/i2HVmxeqAD

[Glyn Hughes @SquashedBox]

An anaclitic telephone call...
https://t.co/Caw1kULpFx

[Glyn Hughes @SquashedBox]

I remember when @RichardJMurphy and @DavidHenigUK talked ever so cautiously and politely about UK economy and trade. Their language seems to have changed in recent years. Wonder why? Follow them.

[Glyn Hughes @SquashedBox]

Why, oh why, oh why, would anyone defer to this creature? I simply cannot understand. I can not understand.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Don't forget who he is (Part 1)

[Glyn Hughes @SquashedBox]

@RussInCheshire Agreed.

[Glyn Hughes @SquashedBox]

Thanks DuckDuck and Amazon, but no...

[Glyn Hughes @SquashedBox]

Well, one thing's clear. All the government's Graphic Artists have left...

[Sir Ranil Jayawardena @ranil]

🇬🇧🇲🇳 Great news – trade barriers have been lifted in Mongolia for British poultry and fish exporters with our farmers now supplying chicken to @KFC Mongolia!

🐔📈 This offers exciting opportunities for our farmers to sell into a £10 million market.

#GlobalTrade #GlobalBritain

[Glyn Hughes @SquashedBox]

@ChrissieGrech Why would a gov't deliberately set out to harm its country? Well, it's what rich Russians did in the 1990s. And they bought up assets cheap, then sold them dear, and made the richest people in the world.

[Glyn Hughes @SquashedBox]

@carbonsaveruk @RichardJMurphy Profitable though. It made loads of billionaires in Russia in the 90s

[Glyn Hughes @SquashedBox]

I thought "I'll put the TV news on", and then found that in the online, on-demand world, I don't actually know how you do that any more.

[Glyn Hughes @SquashedBox]

@keithfrankish Way I also recommend 'Hitler's Table Talk', a fascinating insight into his private chats...
https://t.co/DxIo8Xy53i

[Glyn Hughes @SquashedBox]

@fakehistoryhunt These are made, I think, just round the corner from us by @vaillantuk

[Glyn Hughes @SquashedBox]

@DavidHenigUK Was that a typo for 1880s?

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@philosophybites Liz studied philosophy? Presumably she was off on the day they did Logical Fallacies