Author @ProfileBooks @BloomsburyBooks @WWNorton, Rep UK @FelicityBryan, US @Inkwellmgmt. Writes: @FTLifeArts, @Lit_Review, @TLS, @The_Tablet @prospect_uk.
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Joined January 2014
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Lucy Lethbridge retweeted
این جوان که ساز می‌زنه و آواز می‌خونه #سیروان_شعبانی است؛ جوان ۲۵ ساله و اهل کرمانشاه که ج .ا به اعدام محکوم کرده
-اینجا یک سال پیشه، وقتی رفته بوده برای سالمندان، بچه‌های بی‌سرپرست و اونهایی که بیماری‌های خاص دارند، اجرا کنه
Lucy Lethbridge retweeted
من #وریشه_مرادی، ۴۱ ساله، فعال محیط زیست و زنان به اعدام محکوم شده‌ام. صدایم باشید!
Lucy Lethbridge retweeted
Another poem about growing up as a girl in Afghanistan. Husna is 18 and would love to be read.
Lucy Lethbridge retweeted
I wrote about how, if you're going to end misogyny, £15million isn't enough - but if you're not going to end (or even define) it, it's far too much unherd.com/newsroom/labours-…
Lucy Lethbridge retweeted
This plea from Stephen McKenna encapsulates why it is so important to save Radio 4 Extra. It is the National Trust of our radio archives. @BBCRadio4Extra @RadioTimes theguardian.com/media/2026/o…
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This is the Oxyrhynchus Hymn, dated to the late 200s AD. It is the earliest known Christian hymn manuscript with both lyrics and musical notation. A plain English rendering of the surviving words:
“Let all creation be silent.
Let the shining stars be still.
Let the rushing winds and rivers cease.
While we sing to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
let every power answer: Amen, amen.
Strength, praise, and glory forever to God,
the only giver of all good things. Amen, amen.”
Lucy Lethbridge retweeted
When Paul Feiler moved to Cornwall in the early 1950s, he joined a community which had established itself as the centre of avant-garde British art in the post-war years. His works are studies in light and shadow, space and solid objects, geometric shapes against organic forms.
Lucy Lethbridge retweeted
I just learned that he has no mother or father to speak up for him. And now the Islamic Republic wants to hang him.
His name is Ilya Ben Rashid.
He is a young Iranian protester He has a younger sister. Now he is facing a death sentence.
He was arrested during the January 2026 protests in Iran. A Revolutionary Court in Isfahan sentenced him to death on charges of “waging war against God” for allegedly damaging public property.
He is being held in Dastgerd Prison. Reports say he was denied a lawyer of his choice.
Imagine facing execution for demanding freedom.
We must become his voice. We must stop his execution.
Say his name. Save Ilya Ben Rashid.
#StopExecutionsInIran
Lucy Lethbridge retweeted
C.S. Lewis, a special kind of longing
ALT In a sense a child does not long for fairy land as a boy longs to be the hero of the first eleven. Does anyone suppose that he really and prosaically longs for all the dangers and discomforts of a fairy tale?—really wants dragons in contemporary England? It is not so. It would be much truer to say that fairy land arouses a longing for he knows not what. It stirs and troubles him (to his life-long enrichment) with the dim sense of something beyond his reach and, far from dulling or emptying the actual world, gives it a new dimension of depth. He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods: the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted. This is a special kind of longing.
Lucy Lethbridge retweeted
If you've heard me wanging on about John Clare recently, here's the reason - I've been writing about him for the @LRB.
Read! Enjoy!
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n19/…
Lucy Lethbridge retweeted
'Gardens, Morning Sun,' (1996) demonstrates Christopher Bramham's richly detailed urban landscapes. The intricately developed surfaces of these London garden scenes are reminiscent of Lucian Freud's paintings of a similar subject.
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William Nicholson was always torn between the need to paint society portraits and his love for still lifes and landscape painting. His admiration of Manet is evident in this still life - the eye is led into the picture’s depth by the black pansy, the title of this work from 1910.
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For all my Twitter pal who are stuck indoors today, come and stand with me on Cromer beach today. The sea is lazy, despite the wind, and the autumnal colours of sky are just lovely. The pier looks fabulous too. A real gem of the Norfolk coast.
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The first love song in English!
Beautifully performed by the incomparable Muco.
Many more such medieval bangers here: therestishistory.com nitter.cf/TheRestHistory/status/…
