Londiniensis

Littered under Mercury, a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, moved by T S Eliot, Haydn and Perugino. Catholic. Ratzingerian. European.

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@danieltilles1 Don't Kaczynski et consortes see that they are just recreating the PRL?

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@BrophyLevey I cannot offer any but wild guesses at questions 1 to 5, but I can answer this one with some certainty - "Mozart the Dramatist"

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@MichelinGuideUK @elevenponteland A small piece of beef and three new potatoes is certainly a novel idea for a starter, but I suspect that what we are looking at is part of a set "tasting" menu, with a dozen such minuscule portions following in quick succession.

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@FatherTF Belated, but nonetheless heartfelt good wishes and assurance of my prayers.

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If ever you've had to read scientific papers, a few of these should resonate! https://t.co/kkbTetYAjT

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I commend to you Alex's view on the *real* impact of the Greensill scandal. No wonder MPs are furious ... https://t.co/BfcxCkb8wj

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... and the Symposium *has* been on television - in 1966, in an excellent adaptation by Jonathan Miller with Leo McKern playing Socrates.

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I can't agree with Sally - it would be fascinating to see the Symposium unfolding, or watching Frederick Copleston knocking seven bells out of A J Ayer's principle of verification ... https://t.co/aiWPcPNdCd

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Amusing, perhaps perceptive, but not very "philosophical" ���https://t.co/FSkydkjZc2

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Hello Twitterverse! I've been off the Twitter for a few months and shall try, slowly, to catch up. Good wishes to all.

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@policies4poland I sympathise with that, yet do these feelings arise when seeing the self-same thing live in the theatre? I think not. There is so much dross on the TV that we may nolens-volens regard it as a trivialising medium, and yet there are occasionally engaging and worthwhile things too.

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@policies4poland I would recommend any episode of "Inspector Montalbano" or, if you're in for a long haul, a full series - one long story - of "Spiral" (the earlier ones were, I think, better). You might be pleasantly surprised.

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@policies4poland ... mind you, I avoid The Bill (which actually started very well) and the US import Law and Order, precisely because I know in advance that they are sausage factory productions.

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@policies4poland We must watch entirely different TV series - even in the narrow genre of police procedurals there is quality and diversity, cf. the truly profound Montalbano, the bleak Vera, the throughly enjoyable NCIS, the odd couple pairing of Dalziel and Pascoe, the grittiness of Spiral ...

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@policies4poland Does this also apply to plays, operas, novels, poetry? Why should the overall enjoyment of any work of art, high or low, literary or musical, be undermined by an appreciation of its craft? Unless you remorselessly "analyse" as in the study of set books for EngLit O-level.

[Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya @Tsihanouskaya]

Lukashenka is at a meeting in Sochi today. He has no legitimacy to make decisions, and his deals will be revised in new Belarus.
Quite an irony that a person calling himself a president is the main threat to Belarusian independence.

[Classic FM @ClassicFM]

Barcelona’s Palau de la Música vandalised amid protests over the jailing of Pablo Hasél.

https://t.co/9thU9AaiIG

[Claire Hall @claritahall]

This is really important. This week I’ve explained to several intelligent, highly educated in areas other than law, generally interested-in-society people why the PPE procurement case doesn’t mean Hancock should go to prison...

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

To all the wags on the hashtag #RateMyPun...

[Dr Rosena @DrRosena]

Amazing news from @StGeorgesTrust that a total of 2000 patients have been discharged following recovery from Covid-19.

This is testament to the tireless efforts of colleagues, who have been working day in, day out to save lives. It was an honour to join them again this weekend.