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Damian Barr
@damianbarr.bsky.social
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Writer & broadcaster. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃 He/Him 📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’m also curating a show about them for Charleston in Lewes. 📕 Maggie & Me. 📕 You Will Be Safe Here. 📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer. PhD, FRSL, FRSE.
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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 1d
Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 20h
So good pickled
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 20h
Aye!
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 20h
Yassss
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 20h
Desperate to get to it! Nobody quite like him.
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 20h
WHAT A GREAT NAME!
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 20h
Some very fine pieces! Not seen the euphemisms yet.
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 20h
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 20h
Nearly there! Robert Colquhoun & Robert MacBryde: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders opens at Charleston in Lewes on Wednesday. Curating it has been a joy and a team effort - so grateful to all the folk making it happen! Can’t wait to share the joy. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🖼️ 🌈 📕
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 2d
Love a good window
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 2d
They are!
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 2d
It’s #bookshopday and this handy starter pack has all the LGBTQIA+ book love you need!
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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 3d
And @damianbarr.bsky.social has a Starter Pack for this very thing.
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 2d
In a break from normal
Book tour content, I am home for the day. And harvesting! Pls enjoy my autumn splendour. Radicchio, cucumber and cucamelons.
A bowl of bright purple radicchio leaves Two cucumbers framing some cheeky cucamelons
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Reuters @reuters.com · 4d
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 4d
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 4d
I want to get to be able to do them again.
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 4d
Appalling
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 4d
I had managed to forget she existed. When it rained in london, I’d grab a free paper to keep me dry and there she would be: at the launch of a thing, sipping something, doing nothing.
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 4d
Me and Robert Diament and Russell Tovey talk art and class and queerness and LOVE AND REBELLION. The Two Roberts novel and upcoming Charleston-in-Lewes exhibition, on @talkart.bsky.social now.
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 4d
Yay!
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 4d
Well i am delighted on every count! Hurray!
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 4d
Hurray! Thank yiu!
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 4d
I absolutely am here for this and also thank you for introducing me to this new and colourful term. I look forward to deploying it the next time my husband fishes a book from my stack.
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