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My review of the first volume of Questionable Content has gone up on The Slings and Arrows Graphic Novel Guide. Sadly, it'll be a long while before I do any more.

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I've put together a playlist on YouTube of some talks and videos I've done on the ancient world.

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Just under a year ago I did a talk about the Roman Army for LRAC - The Arts and Humanities Society (AHS). It's now available on their YouTube channel. I think I mostly talk sense.

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It turns out that you can get tickets for my talk this Thursday on 'Gladiators - fact and fiction'. If you're an OU student, staff or alumnus, apparently you can attend for free.

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In just under a fortnight, I'm doing an online talk for the OU Students Association on 'Gladiators'. You need to be an OU student to attend, but I believe a recording will subsequently be made available.

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It would have been my dear friend Alan Jeffrey's 58th birthday today, so I have taken the opportunity to put up online what I said at the celebration of his life in November.

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In March, I'm giving an online talk to the Glossop Guild on 'Mythology on the Streets of London', as part of their Zooming Through the Spring series. You don't seem to be able to book individual sessions, but a Season Pass for everything is only £30, which seems to me pretty good value.

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New post on Memorabilia Antonina gathering together my past appearances on Vapour Trails.

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I did a radio show, talking about some of my favourite tunes. Includes one track I can almost guarantee you've never heard before. https://www.mixcloud.com/radiolewes/vapour-trails-296-the-tony-keen-mega-selection/

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I have, as ever, completely forgotten to plug this until the deadline is almost upon us. An online course I'm teaching for pre-college kids.

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This Wednesday I shall be taking part (remotely) in the official launch of the edited volume AI in Greek and Roman Epic.

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A few snippets of news from the world of me.

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It's Roz Kaveney's birthday today, so by way of celebration, here's an interview she did with Practitioners' Voices in Classical Reception about her Catullus versions. (I get a brief namecheck in it.)

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I have written about history in the opening three episodes of the new season of Doctor Who; note, these are not reviews per se.

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On 8 June, I have a London mythology walk along the South Bank of the River Thames.

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I'm leading another Roman London walk on 1 June, for LRAC, the Arts and Humanities Society.

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I fucking knew it, I SAID it: they're making ADHD people the next culture war targets. They will 'just ask questions' until we lose every scrap of ground we've gained in the last decade and more. We may not quite inspire the same level of hatred as a sexual minority, but we can very easily be made to inspire disdain and that also works.

They will strip us of our accomodations and our medications and try to stifle any sense of shared identity, and if that kills some of us, oh well. So long as it fuels another outrage cycle, fine.

So many of the tropes they've been using on trans people work extremely well on ADHD people too! "There are too many of these people suddenly! It must be a fad! It spreads through friend groups! And online! People are going private for diagnoses and that's bad! They are using pOwERfUl medical interventions and we think it's freaky!"

I saw the first ripples of this in terf circles about two years ago. And of course it's spread.

6% of British ADHD people lost their jobs in the last year thanks to the meds shortage. SIX PER CENT! And that just made these ghouls go "ooh, tasty, what else can we do?"

Recently an 'expert' was on the BBC saying people see ADHD diagnosis as a "golden ticket." Laurence Fox has been ranting that the condition doesn't exist and threatening "'you won't poison my child's body [with ADHD meds] against my consent"

People need to be aware this is going to get worse. Maybe, if we're lucky, it won't get really bad. But it's going to get worse than it is now.