Thomas Frere
@tomfrereactor.bsky.social
York based Actor/Director/Trainer who plays #oboe, makes #labyrinths and grows veg. www.thomasfrere.com
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Thomas I (of Bayeux), first Norman archbishop of York and founder of its Norman cathedral, consecrated Anselm, pictured, as archbishop of Canterbury #OTD in 1093. 📸Bodleian Library #medievalsky
December 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Thomas I (of Bayeux), first Norman archbishop of York and founder of its Norman cathedral, consecrated Anselm, pictured, as archbishop of Canterbury #OTD in 1093. 📸Bodleian Library #medievalsky
Sometimes I think I should take a leaf out of my grandfather’s book and go a little more jaunty with the Spotlight photo…
#actor #theatre #ChistopherFrere
#actor #theatre #ChistopherFrere
December 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Sometimes I think I should take a leaf out of my grandfather’s book and go a little more jaunty with the Spotlight photo…
#actor #theatre #ChistopherFrere
#actor #theatre #ChistopherFrere
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Which of these parts of Labour's progressive 2025 Budget is your favourit part?
Or if something else, add in a comment below!
Or if something else, add in a comment below!
November 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Which of these parts of Labour's progressive 2025 Budget is your favourit part?
Or if something else, add in a comment below!
Or if something else, add in a comment below!
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The stained-glass rose window at Lincoln Cathedral dates from about 1325 and is known as the “Bishop’s Eye”, England.
November 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The stained-glass rose window at Lincoln Cathedral dates from about 1325 and is known as the “Bishop’s Eye”, England.
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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I am so excited for this! We are going to get very silly and hopefully raise lots of money for excellent causes! Come hang out and help sow even more chaos with our donation incentives
Our first @jinglejam.co.uk cast reveal!
Next week, GM @michellicopter.bsky.social will be joined by @nanosounds.bsky.social, @glowpinkstah.bsky.social, @lalionnecosplay.bsky.social, and Ken Cheng to play Jimmy Mothballs' Festive Staffing Agency Steals Christmas by @exstasisgames.bsky.social!
Next week, GM @michellicopter.bsky.social will be joined by @nanosounds.bsky.social, @glowpinkstah.bsky.social, @lalionnecosplay.bsky.social, and Ken Cheng to play Jimmy Mothballs' Festive Staffing Agency Steals Christmas by @exstasisgames.bsky.social!
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I am so excited for this! We are going to get very silly and hopefully raise lots of money for excellent causes! Come hang out and help sow even more chaos with our donation incentives
AI Can’t Replace This: How Jacky Fitt Turns Words into Business Gold
YouTube video by Paul Simpson
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Is the reason there has been so much speculation and trailing of what might happen in the #budget that, when we actually get to it, we'll be too bloody bored to talk about it anymore?
November 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Is the reason there has been so much speculation and trailing of what might happen in the #budget that, when we actually get to it, we'll be too bloody bored to talk about it anymore?
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We're hiring for 2026! 📣
We are looking for people to join our Stage Management team for our hugely anticipated Season 2026, curated by our Artistic Director, Alan Cumming.
Full details on our website.
👉 pitlochryft.com/JoinOurTeam
📸 Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
We are looking for people to join our Stage Management team for our hugely anticipated Season 2026, curated by our Artistic Director, Alan Cumming.
Full details on our website.
👉 pitlochryft.com/JoinOurTeam
📸 Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
November 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
We're hiring for 2026! 📣
We are looking for people to join our Stage Management team for our hugely anticipated Season 2026, curated by our Artistic Director, Alan Cumming.
Full details on our website.
👉 pitlochryft.com/JoinOurTeam
📸 Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
We are looking for people to join our Stage Management team for our hugely anticipated Season 2026, curated by our Artistic Director, Alan Cumming.
Full details on our website.
👉 pitlochryft.com/JoinOurTeam
📸 Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
At last! A positive Labour policy
Rail fares will be frozen for the first time in 30 years. Heidi Alexander says it’s to ease the cost-of-living squeeze, with ministers also moving to bring train firms into public ownership and set up Great British Railways to boost reliability and keep travel affordable. #ukpolitics
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
At last! A positive Labour policy
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The Ballad of the Quiet Piggy
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The Ballad of the Quiet Piggy
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Meanwhile, on X - Grok is denying the Holocaust... and all our institutions and politicians and media giants just stay there like that's perfectly OK.
What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.
What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.
a close up of a man 's face with the words just leave written in white
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words just leave written in white
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Meanwhile, on X - Grok is denying the Holocaust... and all our institutions and politicians and media giants just stay there like that's perfectly OK.
What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.
What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.
“This change in what people eat is fuelled by powerful global corporations who generate huge profits by prioritising ultra-processed products, supported by extensive marketing and political lobbying to stop effective public health policies to support healthy eating.”
Ultra-processed food (UPF) is linked to harm in every major organ system of the human body .
Increased risk of a dozen health conditions, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression.
Companies know but inflict harms to boost profits. Need effective regulation.
Increased risk of a dozen health conditions, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression.
Companies know but inflict harms to boost profits. Need effective regulation.
Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“This change in what people eat is fuelled by powerful global corporations who generate huge profits by prioritising ultra-processed products, supported by extensive marketing and political lobbying to stop effective public health policies to support healthy eating.”
Excellent interview given by @hughfw.bsky.social on @bbcr4 today programme about Ultra Processed Foods - yes, we should be legislating not just telling people what they should eat!
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Excellent interview given by @hughfw.bsky.social on @bbcr4 today programme about Ultra Processed Foods - yes, we should be legislating not just telling people what they should eat!
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"The cat scratched my groin when he saw that woman from Strictly"
"Claudia Winkleman?"
"No, man, but it was close"
"Claudia Winkleman?"
"No, man, but it was close"
November 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"The cat scratched my groin when he saw that woman from Strictly"
"Claudia Winkleman?"
"No, man, but it was close"
"Claudia Winkleman?"
"No, man, but it was close"
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
Last week she wanted her own bench in the sun, now she wants her own radiator
Yami the #cat #KeepingWarm
Yami the #cat #KeepingWarm
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Last week she wanted her own bench in the sun, now she wants her own radiator
Yami the #cat #KeepingWarm
Yami the #cat #KeepingWarm
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open.substack.com/pub/dandiamo... Here’s a great example of how the social media industry is wired to prefer colourful false information over the mundane truth
A man collapsed in the Oval Office. The internet got the story wrong.
A case study in how bad information can spread — and how hard it is to correct it.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
open.substack.com/pub/dandiamo... Here’s a great example of how the social media industry is wired to prefer colourful false information over the mundane truth
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If you ever suffer from imposter syndrome, just remember that the security password for The Louvre was; "L O U V R E"...
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM