Prof Bob Davis
@Rokewood
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Prof of Religious & Cultural Education, Univ of Glasgow. Arts, Humanities, football, birds. We’ve 3 sons—‘the crow makes wing to the rooky wood’—Tweets personal
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined January 2010
1 for @alexmassie … be interesting to see what happens to the Waterstones presence at this summer’s book festivals …
Elliott Investment Management shouldering its way into BP, to leverage core fossil fuel business & hive off renewables. But as I’ve pointed out before, EIM controls Waterstones-Blackwells. Will we see an authors’ bookshop boycott à la Baillie Gifford?🧐🤫
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Elliott Investment Management shouldering its way into BP, to leverage core fossil fuel business & hive off renewables. But as I’ve pointed out before, EIM controls Waterstones-Blackwells. Will we see an authors’ bookshop boycott à la Baillie Gifford?🧐🤫
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RT @TinaBeattie: The courts have a huge backlog and can't cope as it is. It was obvious from the start that this condition would be dropped…
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We are ‘losing safeguards’ in an #AssistedDying Bill? Who on earth would have imagined that happening? The Andrew Gwynne principles?
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RT @cambUP_History: Liberty as Independence by Quentin Skinner Explores how the concept of liberty as independence was superseded by the un…
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RT @DrHelenFry: Gideon Behrendt was one of the 10,000 German Jews who fought for Britain during WWII. In 1943, he volunteered for the Para…
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‘We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose’ George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
@thetimes Might one wistfully observe — the writing was on the wall/page/cybersphere? 🤷🏻♂️ (Though possessions were well down the list that week)
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RT @MathewJLyons: I have a review of Edward Wilson-Lee's The Grammar of Angels up on @EngelsbergIdeas. I'm a great admirer of Wilson-Lee's…
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RT @StevenIsserlis: A very happy 98th to the legend Leontyne Price! "Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it th…
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RT @stephenwertheim: If the Trump administration recognizes a “multipolar world,” as Secretary Rubio called it, does that mean the end of U…
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RT @henryghenrik: Re-posting this poem after slight glitch. Curious to note that its imagery was composed on the same day the Great Dictato…
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RT @proteanmag: In this excerpt from her newest title, Capital’s Grave, upcoming from @VersoBooks, Jodi Dean (@Jodi7768) introduces her pro…
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RT @MansfieldOxford: Looking for a Valentine's date idea? 💗 Join us for a public poetry workshop with acclaimed writer @KateClanchy1, whe…
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RT @cjsarett: Kathleen Peirce, “Dreaming of Sleep” young men and woman held manmade things contrived for widening their lives. https://t.c…
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RT @RightToLifeUK: This is the Government's chief suicide prevention adviser warning that Leadbeater's Bill will undermine suicide preventi…
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RT @TheEconomist: The global scam industry steals $500bn a year from victims all over the world. Everyone becomes a potential target simply…
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