Writer, academic, endotic traveller. Books: Blood Feather 2023; Real Oxford 2021. Ghost Stations, CB Editions , Sept 2025. FRSL. Prof of French and Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
Patrick McGuinness
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A pair of empty boots, rain and a rail replacement bus. Sunday, distilled
Of course I signed. Didn't you (yet)?
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'Stuck in the hole it was meant to fix'. The Starmer metaphor lorry:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Pob lwc Cymru heddiw. It's time.
Cardiff was once a great university, and U of Wales once a visionary university system. This is grim, the senior management and bosses at Cardiff are (rich) vandals, and the Cardiff uni in Kazakhstan stuff is like a David Lodge novel
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To treat this and other cases as mere faulty vetting is disingenuous and lets Reform off the hook of being challenged for who and what they are.
metro.co.uk/2026/05/09/r...
Sea-sculpted tree that looks like an animal skeleton, and proof that, however remote you are, however far from towns and houses and cars, the universal upturned shopping trolley will find you.
Because it's going so well.
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Martin Shipton A Cardiff University lecturer has written a bleak account of working in an institution diminished by financial cuts and job losses. In a piece first published by voice.cymru, the worker...
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