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David Fearn
@davidfearn.bsky.social
HoD & Professor of Greek, Classics & AH, University of Warwick
– lyric poetics esp.:
https://tinyurl.com/5bzbk5xu

Here for the intellectual serendipity.

When I can, large-format 🎞 photographer:
https://t.co/B4aSZJlSiM
No problem at all: it was fun. (It was (!) )
December 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
November 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Have always intended to get some shots like this done in FAB at Warwick... When I have a moment, perhaps
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
lol/sigh!
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I'm shocked too. I haven't seen or heard anything from Warwick about this yet.
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Reposted by David Fearn
If this really is what is being proposed, I think adding the jewellery confiscation policy + the 20 year policy could kick off the kind of PLP revolt that (without rapid u-turn) could entirely destabilise a struggling government that risks falling over on every front
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3734007...
Small boat migrants to have jewellery & assets seized to pay for accommodation
ILLEGAL migrants’ valuables such as jewellery and watches will be seized and sold to pay towards their accommodation costs, The Sun can reveal today. Necklaces and chains — but not wedding rings — …
www.thesun.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
A coherent strategy would be not to 'do a Denmark' & vitiate international human rights, but e.g. to step up, call out xenophobia, cancel Brexit, and drive core European discussions on the broader challenge while educating the UK public.
The panic has set in already because they're so inexperienced.
November 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM