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Nicholas Shakespeare

@dolphinsands

Novelist & biographer (Bruce Chatwin, Ian Fleming), Tasmaniac, latent fisherman & retriever lover, married to an Icelandic-Canadian, two tall sons.

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🚨 NEW: In an absolutely embarrassing moment, Donald Trump was just booed mercilessly at the Kennedy Center. Gotta love it. 👋👏

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That Fulbright, an American institution honoured around the world, had to be purged as insufficiently submissive to a man who thinks Japan was our enemy in WWI and that Hitler delivered a speech at the Eiffel Tower - tells you all you need to know about the triumph of idiots,

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Is RFK still on heroin? “A civilisation ultimately is judged based upon its culture and its art. JFK wanted to make sure that American civilisation would be judged by that and President Trump shares that vision.” theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

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If you want to know more about the extraordinary John Shakespeare (Nicholas Shakespeare' Father) whose birthday it is, here is a lovely article he wrote a couple of years ago for the Oxford Modern Languages newsletter mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/oxford-polyglo…

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"The worst misfortune that can befall a man is to spend his life doing things that he doesn't like to do instead of those that he would have liked to do." Mario Vargas Llosa

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At my matriculation dinner I sat beside IA Richards, father of lit crit & Fellow of the college (he’d sat beside Kipling at the same table for his matriculation). In my last chat with Vargas Llosa, he predicted novelists wld go underground like medieval alchemists, read by few.

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Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.