Dr Jackie Watson

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

[Dr Jackie Watson @jackiewatson05]

Delighted to say that my book comes out in paperback shortly. Available to pre-order here: https://t.co/WMqDmIilxv
30% off discount code is PAPER30. 🙂

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

Nigel Farage is a demagogue who has little regard for facts or the truth. Journalists covering him have no such excuse https://t.co/yKfcJNxpfk

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

The real two-tier scandal in the UK is the relentless double standard approach of a media which lets one party leader get away with financial dodgery that would drive them into a frenzy if it involved someone their billionaire owners didn’t want in power because they believed in things like fairness and equality

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

Nigel Farage has NOT been arrested for willingly and deliberately inciting riots in Southampton.

Please RT this until he is.

Thank you.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Theresa May, "Brexit Means Brexit"

Right: Sunday Times, "Suspend border checks for Britons this summer, airline tells EU"

Your reminder that on On Nov 30th 2017, when the UK was still in the EU, the UK government (as part of the EU Council, where it still had a seat and vote on legislation) voted to adopt Regulation (EU) 2017/2226, which established the EU Entry/Exit System (EES)

This is a biometric border system requiring the collection of fingerprints and facial images from non-EU (“third-country”) nationals entering the Schengen Area

Such is the love of queues for Brits, that before we left the EU we voted to make queues for Brits wanting to visit the EU 🤷‍♂️

[CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive]

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[Cherry @Cherryopenmind]

This is what elite, world-class investigative journalism looks like:

Carole Cadwalladr and her team at The Nerve have forensically stripped the mask off the British political establishment.

The pattern they found in The Harborne Receipts is nothing short of terrifying. Millions of pounds flow from a crypto-billionaire into the pockets of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, and like clockwork, weeks later, those exact politicians start pushing laws to benefit the crypto industry.

It is the exact same playbook Donald Trump used in America. It is cash-for-policy, clear as day.

While the billionaire-owned press tries to distract us with culture wars and theatre, true journalists follow the money.

This is the toxic soil that is destroying our democracy from within.

Absolute honour to see her back in action!

[Dr Jackie Watson @jackiewatson05]

Wonderful @rbo_org Peter Grimes, coming to the end of its run last night. Fabulous performances from everyone - a really powerful retelling of a tale that, amongst other things, shows us the vulnerability of an individual to ‘the Borough’. Scarily effective work with the chorus.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Nigel Farage loves open borders - for the super rich

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Nobody has done more to undermine British values than Nigel Farage.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Here’s just one detail from @thenerve_news #HarborneReceipts timeline.

On the *exact same day* Christopher Harborne gives Reform £3m, Nigel Farage says Reform will lift cap on stablecoin ownership.

Where does Christopher Harborne’s money come from, you ask?

Stablecoins!

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media.

A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.

Lets make this viral again 👇

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

Here’s the link to the petition. Now on 83,800 signatures. ✍️

https://t.co/GOVLNDxfdX

[Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman]

Re-posting this, seeing a retweet today!

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Trump & Vance need to stop meddling in British politics and fix their own country.

Here’s a message back from the UK: we don’t want your division, conspiracy politics or MAGA culture wars. And we don’t want unarmed civilians shot in our streets.

Britain is better than that.

[Georgy Kantor @GeorgyKantor]

Astonishingly, Cardiff University is adding insult to injury in its cuts by closing their Humanities library with a three-week notice. Do sign the petition against it: https://t.co/KvitUpF4VA via @38degrees

[Dr Jackie Watson @jackiewatson05]

@BarbaraBleiman Powerful book - and her sequel, The Prisoner, is on Sounds now - https://t.co/XQ1chQe01C

[English Association @EnglishAssoc]

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This workshop will explore how we can make sure talk opportunities in the classroom are relevant, realistic, reflective of learners’ real lives & needs. Free online! Sign up!

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[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

Has anyone in the press picked up what happened in 2019. As @BylineTimes reported, Farage and Johnson colluding with US based Bannon to topple May.

According to Ben Habib, Thailand based Harborne paying Johnson and Farage to stitch up 2019 elections

https://t.co/vxlFSv4KFW

[Victoria Moul @victoriamoul]

Post-doc alert: wording not very clear but I gather this project is particularly interested in early modernists with an interest in pedagogy. EM scholars with school-teaching experience would be in a strong position. NB deadline soon. @RELICSresearch https://t.co/F0Dxirdxtb

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

NHS sees biggest improvement in waiting times in 16 years

https://t.co/CxLM0P4cHI