- Sun, 12:56: RT @AntonSpisak: The Brexit deal marks a new beginning of a complex relationship in which Britain and the EU will have to learn to live tog…
- Sun, 13:23: RT @DavidHenigUK: Now in article length, my thoughts on winners and losers from the UK-EU trade deal. Both sides achieved their top priorit…
- Sun, 13:38: RT @paulmaunders: I wonder how much of UK-EU trade deal has been copy & pasted from old 90s documents 🤔 p921 refers to Netscape Communica…
- Sun, 14:09: Very good analysis. https://t.co/RUumAaqGdv
- Sun, 14:48: David Beesley FRAS https://t.co/LtszcMHxNn As the year ends I am discovering that COVID reached a lot of people who I knew well. RIP David, a leading light of the Irish Astronomical Association which was very important to me as a teenage stargazer.
- Sun, 15:00: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke Due to its weight, I found it physically difficult to pick this book up. Due to its plot, I found it very difficult to put down. #nwbooks https://t.co/vc28d7Q9DQ https://t.co/GbxSrog8Yd https://t.co/S8kEYWEI21
- Sun, 15:15: The Georgian Feast: The Vibrant Culture and Savory Food of the Republic of Georgia, by @Darra_Goldstein One of my most frequently used cookbooks, for my favourite cuisine. #nwbooks https://t.co/PTC2yznWmu https://t.co/dRm6fqxiEI @livejournal https://t.co/wdDrpDMzPL
- Sun, 15:20: The latest polls of the Georgia Senate runoff elections: https://t.co/XTOQlFh05h Both races within 0.5%!!!
- Sun, 15:45: Wild Sweet Love, by @AuthorMsBev Enjoyed this. Protagonists are obviously destined for each other, and detailed and well-written erotic passages explain how they accept this destiny. Also politics & feminism. #nwbooks https://t.co/PY5jfaMe3L https://t.co/br4H8ZQ4x4 @livejournal https://t.co/mV2woRXTEW
- Sun, 16:00: The Space Race, by Deborah Cadbury Frames it as a competition between two men, Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev, who never met but sent each other (and their countries) effective messages by rocket. #nwbooks https://t.co/ulkj9nmGqt https://t.co/WWuYYJWaJr https://t.co/xSMTUVByNd
- Sun, 16:05: RT @Reuters: Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient street-food shop in Pompeii, with traces of nearly 2,000-year-old food found in some…
- Sun, 16:07: The year ahead: Hi-tech (Johnny Mnemonic)? Space travel (Moon Zero Two)? Dystopia (The Children of Men)? The planet Earth disintegrates (Macrolife)? 2021 as seen by twentieth century science fiction: https://t.co/jJjSB9msme
- Sun, 16:15: Fair Play, by Tove Jansson This is a lovely lovely book about two women who live together yet separately in that laconic, efficient and profound way that the Finns have. #nwbooks https://t.co/4VwvoXf7Yd https://t.co/ammo9QdYrl https://t.co/xute2NMsZ4
- Sun, 16:30: Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe (vol. 5) by @BryanLeeOMalley Penultimate volume of this tremendously entertaining series. The next two evil ex-boyfriends turn out to be very tall Japanese twin brothers. #nwbooks https://t.co/onL4uKpm1F https://t.co/nUT4Gz0JTq https://t.co/AjYR51kuJP
- Sun, 16:41: RT @patrickhadfield: @nwbrux That's sounds interesting. Does she decided who won? Which of course requires a finish line. I think the Amer…
- Sun, 16:45: The John Nathan-Turner Memoirs (audiobook) One gets the sense of a man of limited vision but a keen sense of pragmatism, not perhaps as burdened with ego as I had expected, though with very few regrets. #nwbooks https://t.co/l58FQGBQmt https://t.co/cU12xCrAoc https://t.co/xDqQqkGoTO
- Sun, 17:00: The Whole and Rain-Domed Universe, by Colette Bryce Tremendous: about growing up in Derry in the 1970s and 1980s, the contradictions between warmth and claustrophobia, and finding how to be oneself in a stranded society. #nwbooks https://t.co/FHb7xvTrlo https://t.co/gk4AkgH8oi https://t.co/xuhs9PXMuJ
- Sun, 17:15: Circe's Cup, by Clare Carroll Culture and politics in early modern Ireland, challenging the reader to new thinking about colonial rhetoric and the political intention behind writing. #nwbooks https://t.co/4f0BZrXePX https://t.co/nBxIelPAGZ https://t.co/Bgyrat6ZUJ
- Sun, 17:30: Tolstoy, by Henri Troyat Tolstoy was a truly awful person. Henri Troyat ducks almost all of these issues. I am sure that better biographies of Tolstoy have been written. But I'm not sure I would want to read them. #nwbooks https://t.co/su7YpA16WR https://t.co/y1GugrNPvJ https://t.co/SNEY4dvuAd
- Sun, 17:35: RT @d_kompare: @nwbrux Certainly a complicated legacy. My takeaway from his DW tenure is that while he neglected many duties, and spent too…
- Sun, 17:35: RT @patrickhadfield: @nwbrux Well he got the first satellite, the first dog in space (I feel so sorry for Laika!), the first man in space,…
- Sun, 17:38: RT @MrBeamJockey: @nwbrux Space travel AND DANCING!
- Sun, 17:45: The Name of This Book Is Secret, by Pseudonymous Bosch I gave the whole collection of five books to a young relative last year on a friend's recommendation, and she enjoyed them, so I tried the first myself. #nwbooks https://t.co/aijgTfQ8Qt https://t.co/jidNA0MaM8 https://t.co/K3EjnsUs1j
- Sun, 18:00: Delta of Venus, by Ana�s Nin Classic erotica short stories, varying quite a lot in length, subject matter and (frankly) appeal. A lot of erotica is single-themed to the point of monotony; this certainly isn't. #nwbooks https://t.co/njvGiApTbY https://t.co/bQFt4rEhgO https://t.co/u5CpP7hCXh
- Sun, 18:15: Wild Life, Ash: A Secret History, Perdido Street Station https://t.co/Ot5jNIjTyb
- Sun, 18:53: Planetfall, by Emma Newman https://t.co/ZYajeFmw1O
- Sun, 20:48: A great and important initiative. SF in translation is not suitable for a Hugo Award category as such (& there are already too many Hugo categories). But great that it will now be honoured, with the selection done by people who know this part of the genre. https://t.co/oXec88w8DD
- Mon, 09:30: Whoniversaries 28 December https://t.co/EWIz4uC5Eh
- Mon, 10:45: I have Irish/Bengali connections in my own family. But they do not go quite as far back as this. https://t.co/o9ICG6p8iV