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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists

Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

An excellent Simpsons themed birthday present and card from my great friend Amy

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Got some dem fine cards 😍

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hillary Benn going is a bit like the ravens leaving the Tower of London. Labour Prime Minister in history until now has had a Benn in the Cabinet at some point MacDonald x2/Attlee - William Wedgwood Benn Wilson x2/Callaghan - his son Tony Benn Blair/Brown/Starmer - grandson Hillary Benn

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Let’s party like it’s 1998…

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

An entertaining daft debate is taking place about whether the ‘Northern end’ of the office is cooler than the rest..

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Now we sit back and enjoy everyone saying ‘Starmer wasn’t so bad’

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

‘And since I have achieved all my objectives as Prime Minister in only two years there is no need for a third’

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

My Mum says a woman in Sidmouth today asked her seriously if Britain will be communist now that Andy Burnham’s won

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Big news tonight is that this raffle prize I won a while back is now relevant.. (Knew past me was right not to take the fancy bottle of shampoo)

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I had great admiration and fondness for Roy Hattersley. A beautiful elegiac writer as well as a politician Remember Edna Healey saying he shared many traits with Dennis Healey traits - similar Yorkshire roots, Labour politics & wit (a comparison Roy would have delighted with)

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Drinks are on me this weekend!

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Beach Walk, Whitby, painting by Bridget Wilkinson.

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Bag of giant chocolate buttons turned into one giant chocolate button in the heat. Going to eat it with a knife and fork..

A conglomeration of chocolate buttons welded together into a weird honeycomb

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Have we ever had a future prime minister explicitly mugging off Andrew Neil this badly?

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Obvs wish these people well but were there any slightly more consequential stories of rail disruption the BBC could have used..

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Started the 23 hour unabridged audiobook of Alison Weir’s account of the Wars of the Roses, which should keep me going for a while on commutes. It makes clear in the first few minutes it will only cover the first part of the Wars..

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Appropriately today I’m in Stratford-Upon-Avon where (we guesstimate) Shakespeare was born on this very day 462 years ago in this very house 🤩

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Found this book which brought a burst of nostalgia A tale of blatant discrimination against a woman with clear dyspraxia

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The modern world in old Ladybird books. Eating on trains, 1974. Artist: Frank Humphris

Two stewards in livery serve a couple in suits a restaurant- grade meal in a train dining carriage

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

News Viktor Orban is conceeding the Hungarian election and Rachel Zegler won an Olivier Award coming in at the same time :)

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

As the misspelt church banner said ‘Chris is Risen!’

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Bet he wishes he’d thought of that..

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Not to be an apostrophe person but wonder which student they asked..

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Train delayed. At least 4.5 hours to go. Thank gawd at least after uhhming and ahing over whether I needed a physical copy I brought Alan Bennett’s latest diaries at the station 📖

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Saw Arcadia last night then didn’t sleep for ages thinking obsessively about why Stoppard’s play is so perfect.. 💔

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

New Romeo and Juliet with Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe was great fun, with lots of unexpected turns even in such a well know story. Been there, done that, got the pleasingly daft promotional scarf 🧣

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

New Romeo and Juliet with Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe was great fun, with lots of unexpected turns even in such a well know story. Been there, done that, got the pleasingly daft promotional scarf 🧣

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Daley AF(C) @daleyafc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Whatever you possibly think this could be, it’s even better. All in the delivery.

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

‘I have concluded my work here is done, as optimal communications have been achieved’

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Joe Oliver @joeolyver.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

“The Prime Minister begged me not to advise him to appoint Peter Mandelson. He didn’t want to take the advice but I advised him to do so.”

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I’m loving the attitude in the marginalia to this copy of Griffith’s Morality of Shakespeare’s Drama Illustrated (1775).

THE
MORALITY
Of SHAKESPEARE's DRAMA
ILLUSTRATED. By [the infamous] MRS. GRIFFITH.

HENRY THE SIXTH.
THIRD PART.

[was no great thing]

THE
TAMING
O F THE
S H R E W.
[Easy as taming a monky]

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 21/01/2026

One of the funny* things about the Jenrick defection is his articles basically amount to "Reheated Thatcherism and bungs to pensioners have broken Britain, and that's why I'm joining the Reheated Thatcherism and Bungs to Pensioners Party".

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Take a look at The Telegraph's view on Trump. Every single 'columnist' (I use the term loosely) utterly wrong and totally disproven. Never read again.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/01/2026

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Interview with Paul from the Chuckle Brothers in the Guardian asks if he'd ever like to do Shakespeare. He says, "To me, or not to me, that is the question."

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 09/01/2026