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Bill Angus

@billangus.bsky.social
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Writer in early modernity, atheism, historical fiction, poems, songs (with The Mighty Ways). Sinophile. Freelance academic.

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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reading the Coastline in Shakespeare’s Britain is now available for pre-order on EUP website: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reading...
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This is the modern history of America as told by Hannah Arendt: www.facebook.com/share/v/18to...
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The USA does not have a government. Instead, a gang of murdererous predators are gang-raping the country and they’re looking at each other wondering whether anyone is going to stop or if this is going to go all the way
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
www.facebook.com/share/v/18AV...
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Redirecting...
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” Nietzsche, The Will to Power.
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Oh the dead-eyed children. Beware them beware.
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The sleep of reason brings forth monsters
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Heijo relaxing, rain outside
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
About the meeting of American generals yesterday, the American media are missing a word. The word is Mortified
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Out now! www.amazon.com.au/Divorcing-Je...
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Divorcing Jesus: Atheism for Absolute Beginners
Divorcing Jesus: Atheism for Absolute Beginners : Angus, Bill: Amazon.com.au: Books
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Out now beautiful people - amzn.asia/d/1V2PvV9
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Divorcing Jesus: Atheism for Absolute Beginners
Divorcing Jesus: Atheism for Absolute Beginners : Angus, Bill: Amazon.com.au: Books
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Happy to announce upcoming publication on paperback, hardback and e-book - 23rd August Pre-order for Kindle at: www.amazon.co.uk/Divorcing-Je...
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I am every person in a film. I know all martial arts and can leap from a building onto a lower one catching the ledge with my arms and hang there for minutes with somebody hanging off my feet.
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Establishing your personality on the unreliable reports of a single human life lived in ancient Palestine is no basis for a program of self improvement. True self improvement comes from a mandate from the self alone, not from some farcical antiquated morality…
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
williamjohnangus.substack.com/p/chapter-14
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Chapter 14
Divorcing Jesus: The step of unfaith
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Atheist sprituality - yes please ! williamjohnangus.substack.com/p/chapter-13
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Chapter 13
Irreligious, not unspiritual
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
California Uber Alles
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
‘So where do you get your morality from?’ open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
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Chapter 12
'So where do you get your morality from?'
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The Guardian have misspelled this headline. It should read ‘American President links foreign policy to his emotions’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Donald Trump is losing patience with Russia, says Finnish leader
Alexander Stubb says Russian intransigence could pave way for ‘bone-crushing’ sanctions package
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
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Chapter 11
Good riddance to all that!
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
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Chapter 11
Good riddance to all that!
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
williamjohnangus.substack.com/p/chapter-10...
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Chapter 10
The trouble with Atheism though…
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The USA elected morons to government and now acts surprised every time a moronic thing happens! Oh no! What an outrage! Dumbfcks
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Elon Musk thinks he’s Zaphod Beeblebrox but is very obviously Prostetnic Vogon Jelz
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I hear a lot of Americans lamenting and bellyaching about their fascist government, but I don’t see them doing anything much about it. It’s as if America has no history of industrial action or mass protest. Organise a general strike!
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Person from last relationship hated having my “smelly old books” in the house. New lovely person asked me to build this…just finished
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Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Stefan Collini in @londonreview.bsky.social, October 2013
Future historians, pondering changes in British society from the 1980s onwards, will struggle to account for the following curious fact. Although British business enterprises have an extremely mixed record (frequently posting gigantic losses, mostly failing to match overseas competitors, scarcely benefiting the weaker groups in society), and although such arm’s length public institutions as museums and galleries, the BBC and the universities have by and large a very good record (universally acknowledged creativity, streets ahead of most of their international peers, positive forces for human development and social cohesion), nonetheless over the past three decades politicians have repeatedly attempted to force the second set of institutions to change so that they more closely resemble the first. Some of those historians may even wonder why at the time there was so little concerted protest at this deeply implausible programme. But they will at least record that, alongside its many other achievements, the coalition government took the decisive steps in helping to turn some first-rate universities into third-rate companies. If you still think the time for criticism is over, perhaps you’d better think again.
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Wagh...
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Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer | Waghenaer Map of the English Coast showing Newcastle and Robin Hood's Bay | MutualArt
View Waghenaer Map of the English Coast showing Newcastle and Robin Hood's Bay By Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer; Engraved map; 16 1/4 x 21 1/2 sheet; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auc...
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Good people are everywhere. The right people are vanishingly rare.
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
In which we consider Christian objections to knowledge and God as a hermit: open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
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Chapter 6
Christianity’s best defences. II. Knowledge and Meaning
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Happy NZ New Year all x
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
… in which we consider the value of the narrative, the authorship of the self and the failure of God to future-proof his message … open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
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Chapter 5
Christianity’s best defences. I. The Narrative
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Again, 80% of white American evangelicals voted for the decrepit orange nonce soon to be king of the USA. At the risk of appearing to single it out in a very poor field, I'd like to say that American Christianity stinks. And when I say it stinks…
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
A poem for my American friends:
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Now I love a good cat picture as much as the next man, but can I get some love for a reclaimed, repainted $60 vice? (Or vise if you are an American)?
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This place is a Trump-free zone for me. Apologies in advance for tending away from posters or reposters of US political outrages
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
FYI I guess edinburghuniversitypress.com/bill-angus
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Bill Angus
Bill Angus is a Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University, New Zealand. He has written extensively on early modern drama and material culture. His books with Edinburgh University Press include <i>Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson<
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I was driving as a cloud descended on Auckland with the kind of droplets that long obscure the windscreen as much as the roadside dandelions seemed to surge towards it. Dry in my slow vehicle, I thought of the necessity of love in that warm moment guarding against the
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
In Chapter 2 you'll find Rievaulx Abbey, the Garden of Eden, the Heaven's Gate cult, Sir Isaac Newton, and the beginnings of an escape route...
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Chapter 2
The vague garden
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
For those among us still harbouring vague religious beliefs, I suggest you’ll be happier without them. See here - open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
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Over the Wall: Vague Belief to Confident Atheism | W.J. Angus | Substack
A logical path from the outer limits of faith to the beautiful world beyond, towards greater integrity, well-being and the ideal of atheism. Click to read Over the Wall: Vague Belief to Confident Athe...
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Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
New book on Substack: Over the Wall: Vague Belief to Confident Atheism - open.substack.com/pub/williamjohnangus
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Over the Wall: Vague Belief to Confident Atheism | W.J. Angus | Substack
A logical path from the outer limits of faith to the beautiful world beyond, towards greater integrity, well-being and the ideal of atheism. Click to read Over the Wall: Vague Belief to Confident Athe...
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