Mark Walker
@MagisterWalker
Author, Classics and Latin teacher, Rickenbacker 4003 owner, aspiring mandolin virtuoso (failing), studente di italiano
"A body in an empty pod. A hacked elevator. A dolphin who knows too much. Welcome to Phobos, where murder never happens in a vacuum." Sci-Fi detective noir mystery available soon ...
I was a bit of a Star Wars fan back in the day ...
My little collection of original Star Wars paperbacks - I read the original novelisation so much that I had to sellotape the spine and covers to stop it falling to bits! (I used to have the Han Solo books as well, but they seem to have disappeared in the intervening decades ...)
I was a bit of a Star Wars fan back in the day ...
My little collection of original Star Wars paperbacks - I read the original novelisation so much that I had to sellotape the spine and covers to stop it falling to bits! (I used to have the Han Solo books as well, but they seem to have disappeared in the intervening decades ...)
My little collection of original Star Wars paperbacks - I read the original novelisation so much that I had to sellotape the spine and covers to stop it falling to bits! (I used to have the Han Solo books as well, but they seem to have disappeared in the intervening decades ...)
Today feels like a #GeddyLee kind of day ... time to unleash the Rickenbacker
Every wondered why the inhabitants of Pompeii didn't realise Vesuvius was a volcano? Here's the answer ...
What Did Mount Vesuvius Look Like in 79 AD? The central cone (Gran Cono) of Mount Vesuvius that tourists climb today did not exist in 79 AD. Vesuvius formed part of the much larger Somma stratovolcano, consisting of a sharp crater rim to the north but a much lower southern rim.…
"Hours in a Library" - a friendly community for book lovers of every kind. Join us and share your passion for books ... x.com/i/communities/…
A magisterial evisceration of the snobbery and superciliousness that is at the heart of this almost comically absurd case, Rowling's mockery is brilliantly on point as always.
The Sandie Peggie employment tribunal is currently exposing, as perhaps no court case to date has, the issue of class as it relates to the top-down imposition of gender identity ideology in the workplace. 'Diversity officer' Isla Bumba has now admitted in court that she didn't…
Why Is Laocoön Naked? The Laocoön Group, a masterpiece of Hellenistic sculpture, depicts a harrowing moment from the Trojan War. Laocoön, a Trojan priest, warns his fellow citizens against accepting the Greeks’ wooden horse, famously cautioning, in Virgil’s words, Timeo Danaos et…
Here's my "little" essay on Where Classical Music Went Wrong
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Still top of my wishlist of wonderful things is a book of original mandolin tunes by the amazing @sierrahull
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This utter farce of a tribunal reads like a Kafka story. Except Kafka would have thought it too absurd and far-fetched.
Is anyone at @BBCNews - senior or otherwise - asking why the stand-out and most editorially-telling moment from the NHS Fife/Peggie tribunal this week remains unreported across its vast swathes of platforms and outlets? thetimes.com/comment/column…