Tony Earnshaw's Blog

‘What we can’t know is liberating … long live vagueness, muddle, compromise – and liberation and inspiration.’

https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/on-paradox-and-knowing

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“Gay or straight, black, brown, or white, male or female or neither, she simply didn’t care…because it didn’t matter to her and she didn’t think it should matter to anyone else.”

https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/to-care-or-not-to-care

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Good news. Nower Press, working in partnership once again with Spiffing Publishing, will be publishing ‘A love letter to the Planet – and the people on it‘ in early 2026. A follow up to Blessed Assurance only in some of the ideas and arguments explored, this will not be a novel but a collection of writings and poems from Tony’s blogs on substack and elsewhere. Expect humour, emotion, exasperation and hope.

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Parkin pigs and plot toffee, trick or treat and mischief. Which traditions persist?

https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/remember-remember

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Poets from Keats to Yeats have written about Autumn but how many of them swept leaves?

https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/an-autumn-day

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Diwali this year seems both welcome and needed, as much as a prayer for the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance as for any sign of that victory.

https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/celebrating-light

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The thoughts and questions you can almost see emerging from the minds of people after the show like a cloud of ideas eager to be grasped… 

https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/the-buzz

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‘You can’t be human all by yourself’ – wisdom from Africa  –https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/a-person-is-a-person-through-people

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On time, enjoying the moment, and the joys of retirement – taking in thoughts from Bob Dylan, Japanese culture, Facebook posts and more, and with a note about the late great Brian Patten

https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/im-younger-than-that-now

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On rotten tomatoes, rants, and the misuse of flags

https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/the-temptation-to-throw-things

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