Christopher Farrelly
@ChrisFarrelly
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Art History and History. We need talk about the History of the 99%, not just Kings, Queens and the privileged. History and Art belong to everyone.
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If you believe a media that tells you that it's wrong for a Doctor, Nurse, Rail Worker, teacher to get a pay rise but it's OK that a hereditary billionaire, who avoided inheritance tax to get a 45% pay rise from £86m to £125m, then you are part of the problem.
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State pension is not a benefit. Despite what politicians and their client journalists tell you.
You've earned this. The lowest pensions in the developed world
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Such a sad loss. His performance in Boys From the Blackstuff as Yozzer Hughes was heartbreaking.
Like so many, not only in my city of Liverpool but all over, Thatcherism destroyed cities, destroyed communities, destroyed people.
Nos da, Bernard Hill
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I know people will try to outweather people with
#StormDennis
. They will do things like go surfing or climb Ben Nevis in a tee-shirt to get on YouTube.
But the RNLI and Mountain Rescue are volunteers. People from the community who risk their lives. Don't play with their lives!
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#WorldOtterDay
St. Cuthbert was tended to by a pair of Otters, who warmed his feet after he emerged from the sea. This is a window in St. Cuthbert's R. C. Church in Co. Durham. Designed by Irish artist Harry Clarke (1889-1931)
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@DaveDuricy
@_NotISaidTheCat
@fotorabia23
Bloke from Ohio tells New Zealanders about their own culture.
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Looks like, despite all the client journalist hectoring, all the media vitriol, Mick Lynch
@RMTunion
was right all along.
How is an app or ticket machine going to help someone lost?
How is an app or ticket machine going to assist in an emergency?
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@1davidmprice
@KateWilliamsme
Activists lack the ability to survive on photosynthesis and being a champion. They need to eat solid matter and pay bills, no matter how dedicated
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It's all very well cheering bands at
#Glastonbury
for shouting 'Fuck the Tories' down a mic, knowing that's all they'll do.
When this guy was at Glastonbury, someone who could have actually done something. Y'all rallied to destroy him via the media to keep the Tories in.
Own it.
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Liverpool is made from different people from all over. We like it this way. Be happy here people, you are Scouse now, you're going to be sound.
First 100 Afghan refugees arrive in Liverpool
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People now outraged at The S*n because of a celebrity scandal. The people of Liverpool have been telling you all this for decades.
I had a disagreement on here with an Historian about this, who asked me where was my 'critical analysis'.
Its in the people all around me, every day!
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@BBCNews
Here's some beans.. Are you coming to see my Dad drive past you in a gold coach with a diamond hat on?
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On
#BBCFOUR
now and later on
@BBCiPlayer
#BritainsLostMasterpieces
with Dr Bendor Grosvenor
@arthistorynews
and Jacky Klein
@jackyklein28
Proper Art History programmes. No celebrity travelogue, No gimmicks. Just good factual intelligent telly. How lovely
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The working class have no representation in Parliament and the Guardian were willing accomplices to this.
Middle class liberals pretend to want equality, until it looks achievable. They then joined the elite to prevent it at all costs.
Inherit the Wind!
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Watching
@theAliceRoberts
#BBCfour
. Documentaries are always better when they are done by experts. Here we have research, science and learning. TV by people who know what they are talking about.
Fab
Posh celebrities on paid holidays are not documentaries
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I have a love for water towers (I know, I'm weird) and would love to convert them into homes. The best ones are in Poland. They are just glorious. 🇵🇱
@JANUSZCZAK
@DrJaninaRamirez
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@OliDugmore
This is really sinister. As well as this, councils are putting up rents to extortionate levels.
It's an attack on the individuals right to produce food.
This is no random attack of vandalism. They knew what they were doing.
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🎼My name is Luther, I live on the second floor.
I wrote 95 theses
but didn't nail them to a door
🎶
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It's down to the last two contestants. Who will win 'Ghent Altarpiece Restoration Model 2020'?
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If Jeremy Corbyn is not relevant or significant. Why are you talking about him then? Why waste airtime?
This is the doublethink of the Mainstream media.
#ItWasAScam
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"Hijacking our democracy"
Says our third unelected Prime Minister in a row
#RishiSunak
#PrimeMinister
#downingstreet
#No10
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The only city at level three. In a totally un-connected fact. This is how Liverpool voted in the last election. Not one tory seat.
In another un-connected twist 'Wetherspoons' can stay open.
#ManagedDecline
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Why I
#LoveBBCFour
.
To call
@BBCFOUR
'Highbrow' or 'Elitist' not only does a disservice to the channel, but to us the people.
The skill of the programme writers, producers and presenters is that they make the arts accessible to all, not a few.
(1)
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@SarahGlaister2
@piersmorgan
@Nigel_Farage
He hasn't, because he isn't standing. He obviously didn't communicate that very well.
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The BBC showed the original because it was live. They later edited out the Boos. So did Sky with Kay Burley saying 'Cheers for the Prime Minister'. So, here is the un-edited with all the Boos from Reuters Asia.
WATCH: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie were met with boos and jeers from the large crowd of royal fans waiting outside London's St Paul's Cathedral for a Service of Thanksgiving for Queen Elizabeth’s
#PlatinumJubilee
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There's a German word to describe the type of government we have:
Utterkuntzderlotterdem
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Joe Wicks gets an MBE for running on the spot for a bit and saying how great Thatcher was.
Nurses and Key workers who are being run into the ground getting killed through lack of PPE accompanied by a pay freeze.
Says everything about British society and the honours system.
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You really need a rethink
@bbcarts
. Britain's Lost Masterpieces
#BBCFour
and available on
@BBCiPlayer
is a joy. Dr Bendor Grosvenor
@arthistorynews
and
@EmmaDabiri
and restorers like Simon Rollo Gillespie, we see the hard work that goes into
#ArtHistory
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Ok, I've had the vaccine (well, half) Some are worried that it contains a microchip that can track you. I'll put your mind at ease with a question:
How many of you give a fuck where a tired 48 yr old Scouser buys his potatoes at 2.30?
Exactly, neither does the CIA, get your jab
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So, after six years graft, this came through the post today
@theopenuniversity
. If I can do it folks, you can.
Thanks to everyone who stood by me, supported me and believed in me. Without you, I wouldn't have this.
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@LadyAurelius
@mtgreenee
Claiming Americans 'invented' electricity...... Well, she's in for a shock 😂
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@DrJaninaRamirez
Who the fuck is he? I can't stand that gobshite. He looks like a manatee being pushed against a patio door. He has no possibile concept of what beautiful is. Cheeky bastard. Him with the face of a sharpei licking piss off a nettle.
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'Ok Lads, here's the Gig. A shufty round the Cathedral, St. Thomas's for the Doom painting, Old Sarum, Wetherspoons munch and then a few jars at the Ox Row... Plan or what.. Jolly boys outing!'
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Tonight on
@BBCFOUR
at 21.00. (9pm) The mighty
@DrJaninaRamirez
shows us Britain's Most Fragile Treasures. The beautiful medium of stained glass. The pictures that shine through the light. This wonderful programme will be available on
@BBCiPlayer
later.
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Dr. Chowdhury is dead. He died needlessly. He won't hear the clapping tonight. He warned the Prime Minister of the coming dangers and now a family are without their Dad.
But keep on likening Boris to Churchill, keep likening this to 'The War'.
It isn't the war, it just isn't.
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@OxfordDiplomat
It's not our anthem. We are
#scousenotenglish
. What the regime has done us. It was even written in a legal document
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Political violence isn't people climbing on roofs of mansions or glueing themselves to roads.
Political violence is a hereditary billionaire paying no inheritance tax and an unelected Prime minister being worth £730m whilst working people are homeless and doing home dentistry
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@VictoriaCoren
@jimmycarr
All these people, my family family fought so Gypsy, Roma, Sinti and and traveller would not be murdered.
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Dear
@bbcarts
@BBC
.
Please look at this and the responses and reposts. The licence payers, the consumers want to see Art, they want to see History.
They want to be informed by experts in the field. It can't all be panel shows and celebrity travelogues.
#BritainsLostMasterpieces
On
#BBCFOUR
now and later on
@BBCiPlayer
#BritainsLostMasterpieces
with Dr Bendor Grosvenor
@arthistorynews
and Jacky Klein
@jackyklein28
Proper Art History programmes. No celebrity travelogue, No gimmicks. Just good factual intelligent telly. How lovely
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@RevRichardColes
@RoyalMail
A bigger scam than Lord Scamford 'Scammer' Scammerland, the giant of Scammerland Hall. Whose ditty and autobiography 'I scam what I scam' was a popular song and read in the taverns of the time.
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Dear
@BBC
,
I am an Open University student and would love to go on
#UniversityChallenge
.Can we put seven teams in for next year please? You know, like Oxford and Cambridge can. Just so I have an equal chance of being on it as they do.
Ta La.
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@LakotaMan1
There is no need to own such monstrosities. We, in the UK walk into stores here and buy food and clothes, not weapons. They are banned here.
Which is why nobody has been killed in mass shootings here involving a pair of socks and a tin of soup.
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On the subject of statues. Why are so many modern ones just... Shite?
How the hell do these people get away with calling themselves artists and how come nobody says at the point of casting 'who's that supposed to be?' In the Ronaldo case, the replacement is just as crap
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Lizzie Biscuits on
#onlyconnect
and Alex Wallop on
#UniversityChallenge
.
Tonight's quiz hour is brought to you tonight courtesy of Toast of London. I'm just waiting for Clem Fandango to turn up on Mastermind
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My house isn't big, or rich, or famous or well appointed. However, I make sure that nobody leaves it feeling hungry or cold. Country veg with dumplings and homemade wholemeal plat bread. For Scousers and Scouseskis, there is beetroot too.
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On your telly now and available on
@BBCiPlayer
is Waldemar Januszczak
@JANUSZCZAK
with his wonderful series 'The Art Mysteries'
This episode is about 'The Card Players' by the wonderfully complex, vibrant Paul Cézanne. Of course, Mary Magdalene gets a role
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But keeps Esther McVey in the Ministry for Common Sense
'Minister for disabled people' role scrapped by government, Number 10 confirms
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In the event of fire, need of assistance, disabled access, hazard, emergency, distress, fear of violence, reporting a crime. Please do not hesitate in looking at this broken machine
See!
Go to the ticket office
This is why we need staffed stations. Support the
@RMTunion
workers
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Currently on
#BBCFour
is 'Britain's Most Fragile Treasure - The great East Window at York Minster with
@DrJaninaRamirez
. Available later on
@BBCiPlayer
. We need programmes like this to bring Art History and History to everyone.
#ArtMatters
#ArtHistory
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The Tories tried to crush Liverpool to rubble. A malicious managed decline. I lived through it. It was Europeans that gave funding, hope and new life.
It's Etonians not Estonians that hurt my people. People from other countries never look down their nose at us.
It's just here!
How to destroy a Tory on Air
'Why are you spending £1billion of public money just to cling on to power? Elliot challenges Tory MP over Cons-DUP deal.
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@RSPCA_official
@frogyuk
@HertsHuntSabs
@CottesmoreHunt
There is at least one identifiable registration plate, she is clearly on camera and you have the location and date.
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@Amanda_Vickery
Basically, that's the shelf version of History documentaries that aren't about the Tudors. Only eight people ever lived in Britain. Henry VIII, his wives and Winston Churchill.
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People, my lovely friend
@DrJaninaRamirez
encouraged us, in this hard time to share art and love with the hashtag
#ArtHelps
. She is poorly right now, so please help to keep it going. Here's a Paula Rego for my friend Dr. Janina Ramirez. Post your art, use the hashtag
#ArtHelps
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Dear Art loving friends. At 23.40 tonight on
@BBCFOUR
Waldemar Januszczak
@JANUSZCZAK
takes us on an epic pan-American road trip to bring us Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art :Made in the USA. The whole series will be available on
@BBCiPlayer
an hour later
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@MhairiBlack
That was incredible. I am from Liverpool. I have felt all my life that we are a separate people from those in Westminster, I lived through their managed decline of my city.
Keep fighting.
Alba gu brath!
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@jonsnowC4
He actually used the term 'Fake News'. Well done Fatima Manji and Channel Four
@Channel4News
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Haven't seen ol' Harrison since we worked together on The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
He looks great... Super
#UniversityChallenge
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Dear friends and Art Lovers. At 20.00 (8pm) on
@BBCFOUR
is the wonderful
@DrJaninaRamirez
and the fab Alastair Sooke exploring Lisbon in An Art Lovers' Guide, Series 2, Lisbon "BBC Four - An Art Lovers' Guide, Series 2, Lisbon"
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@RevRichardColes
@TheMarkETurner
Did you know that the Jacket Adam Ant wore in that photo was the one David Hemmings wore in Charge of the Light Brigade in 1968. You probably did cos you're clever x
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On
@BBCFOUR
now. The fabulous
@DrJaninaRamirez
in Treasures of the Anglo Saxons. It will be available on
@BBCiPlayer
right after it is on.
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@ScotCuthbertson
@MhairiBlack
I'm a Liverpudlian. A proud Scouse man. I will never ever retract my hatred and loathing for this monster
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@JohnDoe00Se7en
Stephen Fry had relatives murdered in the Holocaust. Not the best reference.
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Now that Art and History programmes are binned for the celebrity travelogue and privately educated luvvies presenting programmes they're not qualified for.
Why do you think they get series after series? It's baffling.
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@RevRichardColes
I can't say anything to comfort you. I won't say thoughts and prayers to you. You are in the thoughts and prayers business.
I can say though. That if you need to reach out to a stranger, I'm here. Even if it's something daft. I'm a Scouser, daft is what I do. DM anytime brother x
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Dear
@bbcarts
@BBC
People want Art programmes by experts like Waldemar
@JANUSZCZAK
. However, not only have you decided not to commission, replacing them with celebrity travelogues, but you aren't even making them available on
@BBCiPlayer
.
Why not, our subscription paid for them ?
@ChrisFarrelly
@bbcarts
@BBC
And look at the public response to
@JANUSZCZAK
's excellent Sky Arts progs- the sort that, as Waldemar has said, used to be regulars on BBC2 or BBC4 at the least, but now left solely to other broadcasters. Abandoned a national brief out of cowardice and a misidentified populism.
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@keithrhernandez
So sorry for your loss. That President is a disgrace to humanity and an embarrassing blot in history.
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@NoContextBrits
Actually, I can see their point. We had one neighbour with four dogs. He would go out in the morning and they would continually bark until the evening.
People have the right to live in peace.
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@HistoryFilmClub
I've said it many times. You can't have three series of permanent designer stubble when all you have is a straight razor.
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It's taken less than 24 hours for 'Key Workers' and 'Heroes' to go back to being 'Low skilled workers' Cheers BBC. Cheers Fiona Bruce. Daddy Boris has spoken, eh?
Back to work peasants....Oh, hang on, we have been right through this!
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I know both sides are impressive, but I have to give extra points to the Christ Church for getting René Magritte to be their mascot
@rogertilling
@amolrajan
#UniversityChallenge
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Angelica Houston really was born to play Morticia Addams. This is baby Angelica being held by her mother, Enrica Soma. 🦇⚰️🖤
@DrJaninaRamirez
@WickedVintageUK
@RedLunaPixie
@UtopiaKun
@LadyAurelius
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@wmarybeard
I'm still working. I have no PPE and nobody gives a shit. Why? Because I'm not famous. That's how the virus discriminates. People on Lockdown have electricity, water, gas, their bins emptied and food delivered because when you people are talking about it. We are going to work
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@JANUSZCZAK
It's the ever decreasing circle, and now that
@BBCFOUR
's dying. How many programmes about the Tudors can possibly be made by the same people ?
How many times can Fiona Bruce feign knowledge unconvincingly? How many travelogues about India can Joanna lumley get away with?
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