Plunder & Salvage

Michael Blackburn. Poet. Dark-brained cycloptic.

May 18

The Poetry Hit - Pocket Venus 3/359

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May 17
Amazing Amazon fact: you can’t tax a loss.
Amazon pays barely any taxes because it makes barely any profit. And it makes barely any profit…View Post

Amazing Amazon fact: you can’t tax a loss.

Amazon pays barely any taxes because it makes barely any profit. And it makes barely any profit…

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May 16
Scotland’s intelligentsia detain Nigel in pub for civilised debate.
Bar staff were forced to clear the Canons Gait pub in Edinburgh after a Nigel Farage media…View Post

Scotland’s intelligentsia detain Nigel in pub for civilised debate.

Bar staff were forced to clear the Canons Gait pub in Edinburgh after a Nigel Farage media…

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1,000 year-old church found under Lincoln Castle.
A 1,000-year-old church has been discovered by archaeologists carrying out a £20 million…View Post

1,000 year-old church found under Lincoln Castle.

A 1,000-year-old church has been discovered by archaeologists carrying out a £20 million…

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Dambusters - anniversary flypast.A Lancaster bomber has performed a flypast over Derwent reservoir, 70 years on from the historic…View Post

Dambusters - anniversary flypast.

A Lancaster bomber has performed a flypast over Derwent reservoir, 70 years on from the historic…

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May 15

Eskeleth and Apples: poetry pamphlet now free to read on Scribd.

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May 14
A Latin poem rediscovered and a swerve in the world.
The recovery of “On the Nature of Things” is a story of how the world swerved in a new direction.…View Post

A Latin poem rediscovered and a swerve in the world.

The recovery of “On the Nature of Things” is a story of how the world swerved in a new direction.…

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May 12
French decline continues: rift over plan to teach in English.
What do we want? Anglais! When do we want it? Toot sweet!Borrowed from ahoy’s blog – ahoy.tk-jk.net

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French decline continues: rift over plan to teach in English.

What do we want? Anglais! When do we want it? Toot sweet!
Borrowed from ahoy’s blog – ahoy.tk-jk.net

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The Gove Reader: Baiting the Bedlamites (Fortnightly Review).Stolen from Ronald Searle, Genius.
It’s a measure of the soundness of Gove’s suggestion that it…View Post

The Gove Reader: Baiting the Bedlamites (Fortnightly Review).

Stolen from Ronald Searle, Genius.

It’s a measure of the soundness of Gove’s suggestion that it…

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May 11
That Borgen thing.
The problem with The Killing, and in particular,Borgen, is that they portray Danish society as it…View Post

That Borgen thing.

The problem with The Killing, and in particular,Borgen, is that they portray Danish society as it…

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