Sali Hughes

[@bbcworldservice]

RT by @salihughes: "They didn't know that I was black... on my arrival things changed."

Sixty years ago, 18-year-old Guy Bailey was turned away from a job interview for Bristol's bus company. What happened next changed UK civil rights

Witness History - The Bristol bus boycott - BBC Sounds

 

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R to @eightyfivemusic: YES.

 

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Thing to never say to people with Tourette’s.

 

[@NadiaShireen]

RT by @salihughes: Ep 1 of Island of Brilliant is out now! In which @frankcottrell_b and I discuss Tyger by @SFSaid and The Magican’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo. There’s a raucous chat with @cressidacowell, and @EmilyDrabble picks some recent faves. We hope you like it x

‎The Island of Brilliant! on Apple Podcasts

‎Arts · 2023

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[@danbarker]

RT by @salihughes: Here is a very short thread on this news story, and how the story has become bigger than it probably deserves to be:

If you read the text the BBC put out here, it says "Public *asked* to swear allegiance to King Charles"

That's not quite the case...

 

[@pamela_weaver]

RT by @salihughes: Around 30 years ago, my prized copy of this was nicked from the Boole library in UCC. It was out of print even then. Yesterday, in a tiny bookshop in Rouen, herself spied a copy. As I picked it up, I was thinking jesus, this even looks like mine. Well guess what…

 

[@NadiaShireen]

RT by @salihughes: I have just learned that the collective noun for a group of ferrets is “a business.” A business of ferrets. I like it.

 

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R to @eightyfivemusic: The best.

 

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R to @VictoriaMarkou: Yep. The misconceptions around it are so annoying.

 

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R to @eightyfivemusic:

 

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R to @estellecostanza:

 

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R to @eightyfivemusic: No, darling.

 

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R to @crispriestley: Yes. It’s about a man’s moral decline and bankruptcy.

 

[@theworldofdog]

RT by @salihughes: this dog looks so proud of himself

 

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R to @jennycolgan:

 

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R to @AlexEdelman: I’m very sorry to hear this. He sounds brilliant. Xx

 

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R to @Andr6wMale: Omg I would hurl.

 

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R to @Dorianlynskey: I feel exactly the same. I totally get the principled argument against it and don’t necessarily disagree, but there are always too many way bigger fish to fry. It’s nowhere near the top of the list for me.

 

[@TimesRadio]

RT by @salihughes: "I spoke to Tony Blair before I took the job, how would I know I was going to get the job?...No one made any fuss about me switching from Foreign Office to chief of staff to the opposition."

Jonathan Powell says complaints about Sue Gray are a 'political game' on #TimesRadio.

 

[@TolkienWonder]

RT by @salihughes: This 1960 Dutch Hobbit edition goes hard.