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🚨Sir Ian McKellen is quoting Thomas More, writing in 1517 during anti-immigrant riots in London 🔥 when terrified foreigners were dragged from their homes and blamed for every social ill. More asked the mob a simple question: “What would you do, if you were the stranger?” 500

This is not a peace plan for Ukraine virgin.com/branson-family…

Ukraine already gave up weapons for US security guarantees. It was called the Budapest Memorandum.

'The eyes are not here  There are no eyes here  In this valley of dying stars  In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms [...] This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.' 100 years of T S Eliot's 'The Hollow Men' Published #OnThisDay in 1925

Learn more about the composition of ‘The Hollow Men’ and responses to the poem in our latest From the Archive blogpost: tseliot.com/foundation/thi…

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A soprano was singing her 4th encore, "Sempre libera" an opera number that has a tenor part, a young opera student spontaneously joins her in song when he noticed there wasn't anyone else singing it ❤️

John Major effectively calls Labour and the Conservatives cowards over Brexit - must watch "In an act of collective folly, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union" "Across the world our enemies celebrated and our friends despaired" "We left the EU on a minority

According to a new study from a respected US think tank, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Britain’s decision to leave the EU has meant that its GDP is between 6 per cent and 8 per cent smaller than it would have been.

T. S. Eliot on John Davidson's poem 'Thirty Bob a Week': 'I am sure that I found inspiration in ... the complete fitness of content and idiom: for I also had a good many dingy urban images to reveal… The personage that Davidson created in this poem has haunted me all my life...’

Brexit is now costing the UK £90bn a year in lost tax revenue. Analysis by the House of Commons library also shows the average Brit has seen a hit of between £2,700 and £3,700. That's why taxes are at an all-time high. Brexit is simply untenable. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

RIP Tom Stoppard.

Sir Tom Stoppard, OM, playwright of dazzling wit who turned high concepts into hits – obituary telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/202…

Please, Twitter: let me have the fourth and fifth stanzas of "The Hallowe'en" by Sydney Goodsir Smith. Thank you.

Thoughts on Waley's Genji | Literary Translation - Boston University - goo.gl/alerts/ciJu4m #GoogleAlerts

Jacob Frey: "We are here to respond to credible reports relaying that there are as many as 100 federal agents that will be deployed to the Twin Cities with a specific focus on targeting our Somali community. To our Somali community -- we love you and we stand with you. That

1942–1944 by Valerie Eliot & John Haffenden (edd) - “splendidly edited” - review by Robert Crawford - goo.gl/alerts/VHRtLw #GoogleAlerts

'...the question whether one is a writer at all is one which constantly asks itself and I think ought to go on asking itself from time to time...I have never got rid of it myself and it attacks me from time to time most unexpectedly.' —8 Sep 1943 #writers #TheLettersofTSEliot

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care? cityam.com/the-british-li…