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Alasdair MacDonald

@macdonwald.bsky.social

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Former university administrator; happily married step-dad to three, and cat-servant to two. Also a “middle-class leftie remoaner lunatic" (wtt Dan Wootton). There are places to visit, books to read, guitars to play, and songs to sing.

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Alasdair MacDonald @macdonwald.bsky.social · 1h

But I must admit to having read only one other since the Mayor of Casterbridge for O Level English. Bit poor for fifty years of intensive reading….

Alasdair MacDonald @macdonwald.bsky.social · 1h

Steady on!

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 5h

“An essential condition today for entry into the upper echelons of Conservative party politics is being willing to at least pretend that you think taking Britain out of the EU was a good idea. This is a never-ending lobotomy for the Tories”

Brexit will always ruin you in the end.
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How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

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Alasdair MacDonald @macdonwald.bsky.social · 23h

I’ve sat through a few like that.

Alasdair MacDonald @macdonwald.bsky.social · 1d

WTAF?

Alasdair MacDonald @macdonwald.bsky.social · 1d

Required reading. I always feel a little disappointed when I open an email to find that she’s gone canoeing instead of filing another piece for me to read (not that I really begrudge her her leisure time). She is brilliant.

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Alasdair MacDonald @macdonwald.bsky.social · 1d

Envy-inducing fried eggs too, by the way. They would definitely be regarded as “banging” chez nous.

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Alasdair MacDonald @macdonwald.bsky.social · 1d

My mother used to make marvellous green tomato chutney. I never have enough of them at the end of the season to try.

Alasdair MacDonald @macdonwald.bsky.social · 1d

It’s truly rage-inducing.

Alasdair MacDonald @macdonwald.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe he could resurrect Kate Wolf and Nanci Griffith for us?

Alasdair MacDonald @macdonwald.bsky.social · 1d

I think that’s the basic premise for pedal steel and some slide guitar too. But what do I know, I make Springsteen look like Segovia….

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Alasdair MacDonald @macdonwald.bsky.social · 1d

I’m no expert on the world of alternate and open tuning, but yes, sort of. Keith Richard explored this further by taking the low E off his most famous Telecaster, tuning the rest of the strings to form a G chord, and happily slid his finger up and down the neck for perfect chords.

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Ray Selby #FBPE #XR #antifascist #NAFO #WeDidWarn #WeStillWarn @tarotray.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant - from Private Eye Magazine.

Article "Modern News Cycle" from Private Eye.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

If this was any other country you would have analysts and journalists discussing potential for state failure

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Alasdair MacDonald @macdonwald.bsky.social · 1d

Been drinking them for forty years…😊

Alasdair MacDonald @macdonwald.bsky.social · 1d

That’s good!

Alasdair MacDonald @macdonwald.bsky.social · 1d

She’s not allowed to die.

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Alasdair MacDonald @macdonwald.bsky.social · 1d

He’s a bit of a dude!

Alasdair MacDonald @macdonwald.bsky.social · 1d

I went in and out of Berlin for work for about six years. I don’t think I used more than about a dozen words of German. People only had to look at me to start talking in English….