Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026So presumably the conspirators in Acts 23 starved to death? 101
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026As I read my way through the great Russian classics it’s thought provoking to discover how many of these famous authors were actually … Ukrainian 🤔 020
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Fellow bibliophiles, buy as many actual books as you can. Then when a demented society gives them a wokeover to rid them of ‘problematic’ language and ideas you’ll still have the real ones. 010
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Well today I discovered that McVities plain digestives (the acknowledged food of gods) have been renamed McVities Gigglings. Their chocolate digestives are now Togethers and their chocolate hobnobs are Buzzings. Is it me or has someone in their advertising department sprained a synapse? 020
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026See that black bundle with just one eye exposed? There’s a woman in there. What’s her name? What’s her story? What does she look like? What’s her perspective? This photograph is viscerally disturbing. 000
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In a nod to this classic, a handy guide is available in this diocese called ‘How it Works THE ARCHDEACON 😆 010
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Good morning synodical skylarks. Everybody standing for General Synod is ‘inclusive’. The question is what they include and what they don’t. Make sure you’re clear on that point before casting your vote. 000
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026To those who believe there is a place in society for assisted dying, the obvious next step is to bend your campaigning efforts towards ensuring excellent medical and palliative care for everyone who needs them. Then and only then should this bill be brought forward again. 000
Reposted by Jane CharmanThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/09/2026The age of tiramisu: a runaway dessert trend – and what it reveals about nostalgia and decadencetheguardian.comThe age of tiramisu: a runaway dessert trend – and what it reveals about nostalgia and decadenceThe coffee and cream pudding has always been popular. But now it’s inspired a dedicated cafe and countless products, from drinks to ice-creams to buns. What’s behind this big cultural craving? 5241
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Good morning, churchy skylarks. In the forthcoming General Synod elections vote for the Save the Parish candidates because if you don’t there may soon be nothing left for anyone with other sets of priorities to be a part of or feel excluded from. 000
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026After careful consideration my new Russian read is Dr Zhivago. Pevear and Volokhonsky translation again. Originally banned in Soviet Russia for political incorrectness, it was first published in Italy in 1957. It won Pasternak a Nobel prize for literature. 000
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The swallows are all wired and flighty. Any day now they will be gone. Winter well, little swallows. See you in the Spring. 000
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026My favourite chapter in The Brothers Karamazov has got to be ‘Gold Mines’, where Mitya and Madam Khokhlakov end up talking at complete cross purposes about how he can raise the money he desperately needs. Perfectly timed and executed. 000
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Brothers Karamazov contains many blackly comic scenes. Check out the bit where the body of the much admired monk, instead of emitting the expected odours of sanctity, starts to stink, to the consternation of his devoted followers. 000
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Well I have just finished reading The Brothers Karamazov, another crazy Russian ride. Everyone in it is quite mad. Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. 000
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Let me tell you about our plane flight yesterday to a Scottish island; there were 18 people on the manifest but 19 people on board. Cue much head scratching that was not resolved but in the end it was decided to take off anyway. 110
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Good morning skylarks. Would it save time if we simply rename every geological feature some combination of either ‘Trump’ or ‘America’? 000
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Yes to all that. I should have been more specific. What I had in mind is a situation where Y is the best candidate, X is the second best candidate but X is appointed because there’s a quota to fill or for the optics. That’s demeaning to both candidates and bad for the employer. 100
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The problem with DEI is that it leaves all women’s appointments and achievements open to suspicion. People can always say ‘but if you hadn’t been a woman …’ That’s not empowering, it’s undermining. You will always doubt yourself. 200
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Having appointed a number of people to a number of posts in my time I’ll say this. It is not a kindness to appoint someone to a post for which they are under qualified. Do not do it, no, do not do it. 031
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Appointing a woman over the head of a better qualified man is not feminism, y’all. We call it ‘progressive misogyny’. 010
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Morning skylarks. Is it ever right to appoint the female person instead of the best person? As a feminist I say it is never right. 000
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Good morning to everyone who thought they were receiving a four minute warning yesterday 010
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Congratulations to @countbinface.bsky.social on achieving just under 27% of the vote in the Clacton by-election. Many so called ‘mainstream’ political parties have not performed nearly so well in by-elections in past years. 011
Reposted by Jane CharmanCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton 19972941572
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026According to this article Arday’s fellow black academics all had concerns about him but ‘they did not voice them publicly because … we would all be damaged in the process.’ I hadn’t thought I could feel any more depressed about this affair but suddenly I do. 020
Reposted by Jane CharmanPatrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The eclipse reminds me of my favourite Viz letter 03615
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I’d be lying if I said I didn’t know the feeling 😆 010
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Do you want to know what tragic looks like? This is what tragic looks like 😢 000
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If I only read books by people whose opinions entirely chime with my own I would (a) not read many books (b) read some less good books and (c) miss out on some great books. An act of intellectual self harm in other words. 000
Reposted by Jane CharmanCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026People of Clacton! Show your support for me by putting a bin outside your house, one day this week, of a colour of Tendring Council's choice. This will be unequivocal proof of the success of my campaign. 10752511136
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026If you think the shipping forecast is soporific you should try the cricket commentary 💤 000
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Thank you to St Deiniol’s Data Centre, for an excellent week. Long may you persist! 000
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Inclusion is important, skylarks, and optics matter but truth is sacred. Tie it as a reminder on your hand and a reminder on your forehead. 010
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026In all probability there are no actual villains behind the Arday saga, just people who became so invested in the idea of themselves as ‘progressive’ and ‘inclusive’ that they allowed it to warp their judgment. 021
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Should the rise and fall of the young black Cambridge professor be headline news? Yes, it should. Because it is a parable of our time. 000
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026When I was young I wanted to study at Cambridge because I revered academic excellence and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge and truth above all things. Witnessing the corruption of that ideal as we’ve had to do in recent days is painful to me. 020
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026In which we are reminded yet again that for many people truth is no longer a determining factor in their world view. 000
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Happy 5th August 2026, skylarks. If I said ‘there will come soft rains’, would you know what I was alluding to? 100
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026A date with a book is the best kind of date 🤗 020
Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026In case you were wondering, I’m currently reading the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. Much lauded as the easiest on the English ear but there are plenty of clunks and clangs. 000
