Bob Calhoun
@middelweald.bsky.social
Writer, occasionally arty, usually farty, luv nature and live in the Forest of Arden with my wife and our dog 🐕
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Richard Pryor seen here with Gene Wilder, Patrick McGoohan and Jill Clayburgh in the 🇺🇸American comedy action thriller "SILVER STREAK" (1976) dir. Arthur Hiller
🎬 20th Century-Fox 🚅
Richard Pryor seen here with Gene Wilder, Patrick McGoohan and Jill Clayburgh in the 🇺🇸American comedy action thriller "SILVER STREAK" (1976) dir. Arthur Hiller
🎬 20th Century-Fox 🚅
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Content Warning (CW): Offensive language
Richard Pryor seen here with Gene Wilder, Patrick McGoohan and Jill Clayburgh in the 🇺🇸American comedy action thriller "SILVER STREAK" (1976) dir. Arthur Hiller
🎬 20th Century-Fox 🚅
Richard Pryor seen here with Gene Wilder, Patrick McGoohan and Jill Clayburgh in the 🇺🇸American comedy action thriller "SILVER STREAK" (1976) dir. Arthur Hiller
🎬 20th Century-Fox 🚅
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Never forget: Art matters.
‘Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia’
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Never forget: Art matters.
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Giving Tuesday, often stylized as #GivingTuesday for the purposes of hashtag activism, is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving in the United States.
It is touted as a "global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world".
-Wikipedia
December 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Giving Tuesday, often stylized as #GivingTuesday for the purposes of hashtag activism, is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving in the United States.
It is touted as a "global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world".
-Wikipedia
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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Somebody just walked into our front room and said looking round.
'Bluemoose Bookshop?'
'No.'
'Oh, I thought you were a bookshop.'
'No, we're a publisher.'
She looked at the TV and our confused dog.
'Not a bookshop then.'
And left our middle terraced house.
'Bluemoose Bookshop?'
'No.'
'Oh, I thought you were a bookshop.'
'No, we're a publisher.'
She looked at the TV and our confused dog.
'Not a bookshop then.'
And left our middle terraced house.
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Somebody just walked into our front room and said looking round.
'Bluemoose Bookshop?'
'No.'
'Oh, I thought you were a bookshop.'
'No, we're a publisher.'
She looked at the TV and our confused dog.
'Not a bookshop then.'
And left our middle terraced house.
'Bluemoose Bookshop?'
'No.'
'Oh, I thought you were a bookshop.'
'No, we're a publisher.'
She looked at the TV and our confused dog.
'Not a bookshop then.'
And left our middle terraced house.
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Rachel Reeves is facing calls to resign after claims she 'misled' both the public and her own Cabinet colleagues over the UK Budget
'Dismal': Calls for Rachel Reeves to resign over 'misleading' UK Budget
www.thenational.scot
December 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Rachel Reeves is facing calls to resign after claims she 'misled' both the public and her own Cabinet colleagues over the UK Budget
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The right to trial by jury has been a fundamental feature of the British Justice System for over 800 years. Any attempt by the government to undermine this fundamental freedom - a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism - must be opposed
🚨Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism. We must come together - cross party - to stop any attempt by the government to undermine this fundamental freedom
youtu.be/QdD9LaAN19A?...
youtu.be/QdD9LaAN19A?...
Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy - We must fight any attempt to undermine it
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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November 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The right to trial by jury has been a fundamental feature of the British Justice System for over 800 years. Any attempt by the government to undermine this fundamental freedom - a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism - must be opposed
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Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
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Rachel Reeves says on Laura Kuenssberg that she's asking working people to pay a little bit more.
This was all under the cover of a made up "black hole" whilst refusing to tax the super rich.
This Labour Government showing again exactly who they are and who they serve.
This was all under the cover of a made up "black hole" whilst refusing to tax the super rich.
This Labour Government showing again exactly who they are and who they serve.
November 30, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Rachel Reeves says on Laura Kuenssberg that she's asking working people to pay a little bit more.
This was all under the cover of a made up "black hole" whilst refusing to tax the super rich.
This Labour Government showing again exactly who they are and who they serve.
This was all under the cover of a made up "black hole" whilst refusing to tax the super rich.
This Labour Government showing again exactly who they are and who they serve.
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A little pre Christmas treat…
November 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A little pre Christmas treat…
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
LUNAR? World of Wedgwood?
We smashed it mate....
Great evening down in Josiah Land with @ianrpearsall.bsky.social and @philshallcross.bsky.social talking art, literature, and #ThePotteries
With thanks to @minxyowlwriter.bsky.social and @barewall.bsky.social
#AMotherTownAnthology
We smashed it mate....
Great evening down in Josiah Land with @ianrpearsall.bsky.social and @philshallcross.bsky.social talking art, literature, and #ThePotteries
With thanks to @minxyowlwriter.bsky.social and @barewall.bsky.social
#AMotherTownAnthology
November 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Zack Polanski has hit back at the Chancellor after she used her Budget to mock his past work as a hypnotherapist
Zack Polanski fires back after Rachel Reeves uses Budget to attack Greens
www.thenational.scot
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Zack Polanski has hit back at the Chancellor after she used her Budget to mock his past work as a hypnotherapist
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This Labour government should have scrapped the two-child benefit cap on day one.
Instead, it chose to keep hundreds of thousands of children in avoidable, grinding poverty for a year-and-a-half.
I’m proud to have lost the Labour whip and left the party that has overseen this performative cruelty.
Instead, it chose to keep hundreds of thousands of children in avoidable, grinding poverty for a year-and-a-half.
I’m proud to have lost the Labour whip and left the party that has overseen this performative cruelty.
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This Labour government should have scrapped the two-child benefit cap on day one.
Instead, it chose to keep hundreds of thousands of children in avoidable, grinding poverty for a year-and-a-half.
I’m proud to have lost the Labour whip and left the party that has overseen this performative cruelty.
Instead, it chose to keep hundreds of thousands of children in avoidable, grinding poverty for a year-and-a-half.
I’m proud to have lost the Labour whip and left the party that has overseen this performative cruelty.
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I've written a big piece for the Observer about the Big C. Would be lovely if you find time to read it sometime and feel free to share.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
‘He suggested we go to a quiet room to talk. I knew that was not good news’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I've written a big piece for the Observer about the Big C. Would be lovely if you find time to read it sometime and feel free to share.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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Often anxiety and depression are seen as a personal failure or a sign of spiritual immaturity. Nichiren teacher Mark Herrick seeks to reframe these afflictions as evidence of interdependence: we are intimately and inevitably affected by the world’s suffering.
Read the full piece at the link below.
Read the full piece at the link below.
The Bodhisattva’s Illness and the World’s Cure
A Nichiren teacher invokes the Vimalakirti Sutra in a reflection on using one’s suffering as a means of liberation.
tricycle.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Often anxiety and depression are seen as a personal failure or a sign of spiritual immaturity. Nichiren teacher Mark Herrick seeks to reframe these afflictions as evidence of interdependence: we are intimately and inevitably affected by the world’s suffering.
Read the full piece at the link below.
Read the full piece at the link below.
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Want to know more about my 6 Month Writing Course? Here's the lowdown.
open.substack.com/pub/kitdewaa...
open.substack.com/pub/kitdewaa...
The lowdown
The 6 Month Writing Course
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Want to know more about my 6 Month Writing Course? Here's the lowdown.
open.substack.com/pub/kitdewaa...
open.substack.com/pub/kitdewaa...
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We don't have to accept this slop.
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We don't have to accept this slop.
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The news that Belgian football feared: as happened in France, DAZN is pulling out of its broadcasting deal with the ProLeague with immediate effect. Should no solution be found (which appears the likeliest scenario), the league's 16th round will not be broadcast in Belgium.
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The news that Belgian football feared: as happened in France, DAZN is pulling out of its broadcasting deal with the ProLeague with immediate effect. Should no solution be found (which appears the likeliest scenario), the league's 16th round will not be broadcast in Belgium.
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Watched the latest Superman. I liked it, didn’t love it.
Enjoyed it more than the Zack Synder ones.
But my fav, is still the first one with Christopher Reeve.
Probably because I was a kid and the sense of magic seeing the character come to real life.
Enjoyed it more than the Zack Synder ones.
But my fav, is still the first one with Christopher Reeve.
Probably because I was a kid and the sense of magic seeing the character come to real life.
a man wearing a hat and tie is holding a briefcase with the letter s on the front
Alt: A man wearing a hat and suit is running towards you. He opens up his shirt, that shows a big letter S on his chest.
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Watched the latest Superman. I liked it, didn’t love it.
Enjoyed it more than the Zack Synder ones.
But my fav, is still the first one with Christopher Reeve.
Probably because I was a kid and the sense of magic seeing the character come to real life.
Enjoyed it more than the Zack Synder ones.
But my fav, is still the first one with Christopher Reeve.
Probably because I was a kid and the sense of magic seeing the character come to real life.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Hmm...England vs Australia in #theashes
Absolute carnage. Some reckless batting from England's middle order...'only' 205 for the Aussies to win.
Off to a flyer with Head. But...you never know with the Beast of #Bazball.
#cricket 🏏 #testmatch #engaus
Absolute carnage. Some reckless batting from England's middle order...'only' 205 for the Aussies to win.
Off to a flyer with Head. But...you never know with the Beast of #Bazball.
#cricket 🏏 #testmatch #engaus
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Hmm...England vs Australia in #theashes
Absolute carnage. Some reckless batting from England's middle order...'only' 205 for the Aussies to win.
Off to a flyer with Head. But...you never know with the Beast of #Bazball.
#cricket 🏏 #testmatch #engaus
Absolute carnage. Some reckless batting from England's middle order...'only' 205 for the Aussies to win.
Off to a flyer with Head. But...you never know with the Beast of #Bazball.
#cricket 🏏 #testmatch #engaus