"For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring." —ROMEO & JULIET #ShakespeareSunday (Deborah Kerr & Burt Lancaster in "From Here to Eternity")

"Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love." —HAMLET #ShakespeareSunday (Kate Winslet & Jim Carrey in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind")

"How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness everywhere! And yet this time removed was summer's time" —SONNET 97 #ShakespeareSunday (Jon Snow & Daenerys, Game of Thrones)

"The summer still doth tend upon my state, and I do love thee." — A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM #ShakespeareSunday (Richard Armitage & Daniela Denby-Ashe in the BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's "North and South")

"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet." — ROMEO & JULIET #ShakespeareSunday (Olivia Hussey & Leonard Whiting in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film of the play)

"The venom clamours of a jealous woman Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth." —The Comedy of Errors* #ShakespeareSunday *Set in Ephesus in ancient Greece ("Circe Invidiosa" by John William Waterhouse)

The purpose of "filling in a form" is so that the public can know who is bankrolling politicians. Transparency around donations is a key defence against wholesale corruption. And that, of course, is exactly why Farage didn't fill in the form.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nigel Farage on whether his gifts/donations were declarable: “All right, perhaps I should have filled in a piece of paper. If that’s the worst thing I’ve done in life — not filling in a form — I would say that’s not too bad.” “I’ve certainly been judged guilty already by the liberal establishment.”

"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine..." —A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM #ShakespeareSunday

"She shall be buried by her Antony, No grave upon the earth shall clip in it A pair so famous." —ANTONY & CLEOPATRA #ShakespeareSunday (Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn and Liv Tyler as Arwen in "The Lord of the Rings")

"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety." —ANTONY & CLEOPATRA #ShakespeareSunday (Liv Tyler as Arwen in "The Lord of the Rings")

"Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall: here is my space." —ANTONY & CLEOPATRA #ShakespeareSunday (Ryan Gosling in "Bladerunner 2049")

"My salad days, When I was green in judgement, cold in blood." —ANTONY & CLEOPATRA #ShakespeareSunday

"Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion." —TROILUS & CRESSIDA #ShakespeareSunday (Cartoon by Nicola Jennings)

"Her bed is India; there she lies, a pearl." —TROILUS & CRESSIDA #ShakespeareSunday ("Venus at her Mirror" by Diego Velazquez)

"Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing." —TROILUS & CRESSIDA #ShakespeareSunday ("Penelope" by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope)

Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts. —TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA #ShakespeareSunday #Odyssey #ChristopherNolan

"I shall hereafter, my thrice gracious lord, be more myself." —HENRY IV, Part 1 #ShakespeareSunday #Hope #England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #SakaHattrick🥉 #WorldCupFinal⚽️ (Bukayo Saka: Jude Bellingham gave me the ball and said, "Go get that hattrick!")

My friend just quit her high paying corporate job to retrain as a marine biologist. Apparently she craves a life with porpoise.

Thomas Tuchel points out that England's next game (Sept 26th) is against Spain at Wembley in the Nations League.

In an angry, divided world, this is a great image from last night's France-England game 👏

Part of the wonderful Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle at Stenness on Orkney. The stone circle dates to around 2600 to 2000 BC, and forms part of the ‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site’. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Brodgar #Prehistory #Orkney

Spain plays. Europe cheers. 🙌 Good luck tonight, from every corner of the EU. Vamoooos 💪 🇪🇸

We will begin these rites, As we do trust they’ll end, in true delights. —AS YOU LIKE IT #ShakespeareSunday #Hope #España🇪🇸 #WorldCupFinal⚽️

“Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.” —ANTONY & CLEOPATRA #ShakespeareSunday #Bromance #JudeBellingham🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #ErlangHaaland🇳🇴 #WorldCup⚽️

“Am I so round with you as you with me, That like a football you do spurn me thus?" —COMEDY OF ERRORS #ShakespeareSunday

I wrote a little something about Five-Houses-and-Two-By-elections-Farage: #NigelFarage #Clacton #Democracy #Farce westcountryvoices.co.uk/will-nigel-f...

Will Nigel Farage put Clacton through TWO by-elections this year? - West Country Voices

Nigel Farage is not a man to do things by halves. Seven unsuccessful attempts to become an MP, including once being beaten by a man dressed like a dolphin, until Clacton elected him to parliament in J...

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Me, this past week: "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt..." —HAMLET #ShakespeareSunday (Ru in #RuPaul's Drag Race)

"Thou art all ice. Thy kindness freezes." —THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA #ShakespeareSunday (Tilda Swinton as Jadis, the Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia films)

#ShakespeareSunday Looking for a small charity to support for #SmallCharitiesWeek? Please consider www.soldiersartsacademy.org SAA uses the Bard's works therapeutically to help veterans recover from trauma & transition to civilian life. Donations are needed to keep going!

"You have begot me, bred me, loved me. I return those duties back as are right fit..." — KING LEAR #ShakespeareSunday #FindingNemo #FathersDay🧡