More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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24 August
'[James] Thomson wrote the word "never" only once, but it has been popularly corrupted to "never, never, never", possibly because it is actually easier to sing', says @Wikipedia, citing a 1763 edn of his work :— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 24, 2020
'Rule, Britannia ! rule the waves :
Britons never will be slaves.'
Grim nonsense from Thomson, a Scot in England for most of his adulthood, and who - with an interest in court preferment - also had one 'in helping foster a British identity, including and transcending the older English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish identities' : Alfred The Great !— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 24, 2020
Dutiful Wiki has an exclamation-mark in its URL, which works in :https://t.co/m3M8d07lLF— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 24, 2020
But helpfully (ahem !) causes Twitter 'to break' the link in :https://t.co/2IBMUQg3Op!
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)