J Richards

Art, History, Writing. Slow Food, Slow Travel, Wild Places.

[J Richards @jrichardsme]

First they separate us from the pack, then they chase us to exhaustion, then they eat us.

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

The economic illiteracy of the UK press created Brexit and, now, how often do you read the fact that a) the EU and the US have the largest trade relationship in the world - $1.3trillion, 4.5 times bigger than the UK & US, b) Trump hates the EU partly as US runs a deficit with them, just as it runs a deficit with China, c) US exports more to UK than we do there, so we are in deficit, a small one, but US loves this, and d) US will want access to NHS market and bring in chlorinated chickens….

[ArtHerstory | artherstory.bsky.social @NoteArtHerstory]

After decades, tiny 500-year-old royal portrait is identified as Mary Tudor
Art historian says miniature is of Henry VIII’s daughter – not his sixth wife Katherine Parr
by Richard Brooks for The Guardian
https://t.co/3R3jLCzxfO

[Dulwich Archive @DCArchives]

If you missed Martin Scorcese’s documentary Made in England: the films of Powell and Pressburger in a cinema, you can see it @BBCTwo tonight at 10pm

[Jarcce @RomppainenJari]

Look at the ice we had last night 💎😍
Moonlight with auroras made it even more memorable✨ 📍Ranua, Finland

[J Richards @jrichardsme]

@MinxMarple me too

[J Richards @jrichardsme]

Disruption they will take, as long as the impact on their own lives & the USA is positive.

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

“If Trump puts together a team that is going to be disruptive and challenges the status quo, that's actually what people voted for”

Right-wing commentator and strategist @SteveHiltonx on Trump’s administration…

https://t.co/IsJdMGJKD4

@maitlis | @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall

[J Richards @jrichardsme]

@BarristerSecret Die Hard obvs

[Celia @CeliaBedelia]

Today marks the anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the "Night of Broken Glass," which took place on November 9, 1938. In remembrance, we joined a group in our neighborhood to clean Stolpersteine — small brass plaques embedded in the pavement that honor the memory of victims of the Holocaust. Each plaque is placed in front of the last known residence of an individual who was persecuted by the Nazis.

[Guardian culture @guardianculture]

Bird review – Andrea Arnold’s wild, joyous coming-of-age drama https://t.co/4bRjwPPI5N

[Bertha DocHouse @BerthaDocHouse]

This delightful portrait of a tiny Danish island's last
27 residents is accompanied by masterfully-crafted shots of the distinctive landscape. It is a microcosm in more than one sense, as a storm slowly approaches.

As the Tide Comes In is now showing. https://t.co/69Bk0xbigF

[Hay Festival @hayfestival]

– Kazuo Ishiguro, born #OnThisDay in 1954, in his Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech.

[J Richards @jrichardsme]

And one of my own

[J Richards @jrichardsme]

Three

[Guardian culture @guardianculture]

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light – Mark Rylance’s titanic Tudor drama is the best TV you’ll see all year https://t.co/zmgEqYC8T2

[J Richards @jrichardsme]

Two

[Anne Maguire 🏳️‍🌈, reading, writing, 🇺🇦 @AnneMag99]

Watching the gem that is “The Secret Lives of Books” on BBC iPlayer. Presented by knowledgeable people who love literature - @theAliceRoberts @DrJaninaRamirez @alexhharris among them - it is beautiful TV and I’ll be reading Frankenstein, The Faerie Queen and Mrs Dalloway again 👏

[J Richards @jrichardsme]

One

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

Art in any form is a source of solace & connection in difficult times, for the creator & for the observer, sparking dopamine release in the brains of both-the chemical of love.
It can be a quiet subterfuge, a beautiful rebellion, a way of showing that we persist, despite them.

[J Richards @jrichardsme]

Three palate cleansers to follow...

[J Richards @jrichardsme]

🤯😱

[Fiona Lucas - Community & Marketing Mentor @irespectonline]

@ZachWLambert I saw so many posts who kept saying "we are not a democracy " and honestly not understanding that you can be a democratic republic - that democratic principles apply. They see the work democratic and think it means to be a democrat voter .

[J Richards @jrichardsme]

@dieworkwear Am so here for this cordial exchange.
More on Beau Brummell (perhaps the aforementioned blog?) https://t.co/HBe1ZOvxgL

[J Richards @jrichardsme]

@B_Strawbridge @TheFleeceInn Fab, hope you enjoy it. Just be aware there's no pub car park. Parking is on street so can be tight & you may have to walk a little, but you'll find somewhere.