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‘thoughtful and promising’

[Ewan @awimboway]

perform evolutions for almost pages at a time, he nevertheless manages to say on one page more than many a more “direct” author would convey only in the course of a chapter’

[Ewan @awimboway]

A typical caricature of James’s style! Ezra Pound: ‘It is impossible to speak accurately of “his style” for he passed through several […] but in his last, his most complicated and elaborate, he is capable of great concision; and if, in it, the single sentence is apt to turn and

[Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 @Chris_arnade]

Since I'm being attacked by Henry-James bros, I'll just say that The Red and Black (Stendhal) is an exceptional novel, one of the best I've read, and while I'm not finished (4/5ths done), it's far richer than I'd expected and it moves, with an engaging plot, great prose (although translated of course), and to loop it back to Henry James, also covers a society where unwritten manners are the language for expressing what can't be said directly, and how everyone, especially outsiders, have to navigate that, always on guard, always scheming. But in clear, concise, writing.

And it highlights a culture, post Napoleon, with no available outlet for heroism, but a desire for it. War and revolution are out, and the church rife with hypocrisy. Consequently, the only outlet for passions is social climbing, and that's being further corrupted.

Like all great books, there is far more there than that, with almost every page sprinkled with a few great lines/insights.

Really worth reading, if you haven't already.

[Duncan Wright @dwright75]

Admittedly I haven’t watched every second, but I haven’t heard the BBC Wimbledon commentators telling viewers they need to have a TV licence. Clearly they think the tennis public is a different class to the World Cup football viewers

[Ewan @awimboway]

@Scholars_Stage Depends on who you ask - British newspapers certainly found Melville too vulgar, too American, and too common. Hence the editorial work done by his British publishers.

[csz @cszabla]

insanely alarming report out of nottingham. many UK unis cut just elsevier for cost reasons recently but this would be something else if true. a code red for remaining a research university in any sense

[Ewan @awimboway]

@Benthamsbulldog Because your points are themselves insubstantial

[Alan Smithee @AlanSmithee1987]

Probably one of the greatest bits they've ever done in Ones and Tooze, beginning the Epstein segment by asking Tooze whether he ever met him.

[Horace Goodwill, tonicke purveyor 🇵🇸 @eff_hey]

Extremely thorough reporting. Worth re-emphasising, as is suggested in passing here, that BBC Look North was basically license-fee-funded regime media for Houchen specifically for years

[Bob Bamber is Bazball @CricketFanBob]

Steadily quite irritated by the coverage of England this tour. Stokes calling his players "weak men", if you ask me the weak man is the one who spends four years saying "we're only going to select you if you attack" then starts blocking it for self-preservation

[Danny Kelly @dannykellywords]

Serious thought. The word "Bazball" has become a distraction. A smokescreen for what we're really watching. Average bowling, reckless batting, terrible catching. It doesn't need a funky label; call it what it is, rank bad cricket.

[Ewan @awimboway]

@BBCNews newsreader just said Tommy Robinson march was protesting ‘rising migration’. But net migration is decreasing

[Ewan @awimboway]

Sunak and client journalists like Calgie defended the Rwanda scheme by using this very argument(4.10 in this video https://t.co/dlKrAL7OBc )

[Calgie @christiancalgie]

Seeing a lot of smug anti-Reform ‘good luck negotiating returns agreements with the Taliban’ takes.

It’s literally already being done by Germany

[Y Disassembler @loomdoop]

There is no AI economy. It loses hundreds of billions of dollars and all gains are in speculative valuation.

The only one making a profit is Nvidia, and it doesn’t make anything. It resells Taiwanese chips to companies that use them to lose money.

[Obadiah Mbatang @residentadviser]

A lot of mockery about this new thing and the second fuck up (as if Hattie, 24, in Dalston cares). But if I were a Labour MP or in Number 10, I would be very, very worried. And I would be thinking of whether the strategy is right.

[Ewan @awimboway]

Putting Agassi on comms is possibly the best thing the bbc has ever done. I’m expecting a punch up with Andrew Castle by the end of the fourth set #Wimbledon

[🦖 @RamoFootball]

this is all Wimbledon’s fault for taking 20 minutes to close the roof…

[Ewan @awimboway]

To be fair, this has become pretty commonplace among crap broadcast journalists. If you think a question is worth asking, just ask it!

[Ewan @awimboway]

True to form, this is a terrible question from Rigby that uses her classic technique of justifying itself through an appeal to a nebulous but legitimising ‘people’ (who? the lobby?).

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Sky's @BethRigby questions the PM on why he didn't realise the chancellor was crying at PMQs and his u-turn on proposed welfare reforms.

https://t.co/TC2ROCL7wW

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

[Ewan @awimboway]

Ed Muskie in the snow in New Hampshire?

[LBC @LBC]

Rachel Reeves appears to start crying at PMQs after Kemi Badenoch asked if she would still be Chancellor at the next election.

[Horace Goodwill, tonicke purveyor 🇵🇸 @eff_hey]

you could be forgiven for assuming from this headline that Lineker had been outed as one of the BBC's legion of notable paedophiles