John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Odysseus approaching the disconsolate Penelope, as the faithful members of his household—his father, Laertes, his son, Telemachos, and the swineherd Eumaios—look on. 460-450 BCE 042
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 04/06/2026As Dante wrote: “I walked the ice / And saw two soldered in a frozen hole / On top of other, one’s skull capping the other’s, / Gnawing at him where the neck and head / Are grafted to the sweet fruit of the brain, / Like a famine victim at a loaf of bread.” 021
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 31/05/2026At 1 o’clock (had just got off the Eurostar from Brussels. 020
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The unique heritage of Peckham Village that must be preserved so we can’t have new homes! 4666
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 13/05/2026This is the challenge that Keir Starmer has failed. It is one that Andy Burnham would meet. 310
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 06/04/2026It was the PLP wot won it! www.itv.com/news/2026-04... 1355
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 21/03/2026The impact of solar energy on land use. To small to be mapped. 34510
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Home Office spewing racist lies. Disgusting from a Labour government. www.bbc.com/news/article... 46523
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026This is pretty clear. The war was waged as an imperial power. The crisis is finally coming to the imperial core. 020
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Do you know this from Whitman? I always find it consoling. 2344
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 12/05/2025@judithherrin.bsky.social I would love to hear these lectures! 030
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Insane briefing! Taking £4500 a year from a million people doesn’t go far enough! 156425
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Any faction truly speaking for the “neglected working classes” would start with this map from @jrf-uk.bsky.social 0213
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Great that @paulduane.bsky.social’s Barbaric Genius is on @netflix.com - not sure the algorithm is correct to suggest Michael McIntyre as “more like this” 223
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 07/05/2024Sortes Saintsburyanae “before I left Edinburgh, it was practically useless to open a magnum of claret for a dinner party of twelve or fourteen people, unless you selected your guests on purpose.” 000
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 01/05/2024@ahronald.bsky.social via @jesuitsbritain.bsky.social 000
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 30/04/2024@ahronald.bsky.social McIlvanney in Clark's Bar, Dundas Street, Edinburgh. 020
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 23/04/2024Plaques of the four evangelists with Crucifixion roundel, probably from pilgrimage abbey of Saint Foy at Conques, c. 1100. They may have formed part of a book cover. (Met Museum) 000
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 15/04/2024@ahronald.bsky.social How students at the University of Paris saw the rest of Europe. (Source: sourcebooks.web.fordham.edu/source/vitry...) 000
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 29/03/2024@ahronald.bsky.social Panel of the National Tapestry, appropriately stitched in Larbert and Falkirk 010
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 16/10/2023Pier Paolo Pasolini, Poeta Scrittore Regista, Bologna 010
