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Angela McShane

@angelamcshane.bsky.social
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Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design Head of Research Wellcome Collection Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.

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Terry Brough @terrybrough.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Skiver Farage called out for saying people want ‘something for nothing’ www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
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Skiver Farage called out for saying people want ‘something for nothing’
Nigel Farage - whose parliamentary record is the equivalent of working 1.5 days a week - says too many Britons want "something for nothing"
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
@asls.org.uk
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Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Calling all those working on topical songs of whatever sort or era to a conference in Australia! @oskarjensen.bsky.social www.songstudies.org/announcement...
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Announcements by Network Members | Song Studies Network
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Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Call for Papers Singing History: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ballads and the Past: www.songstudies.org/announcement...
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Announcements by Network Members | Song Studies Network
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Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Calling all those working on topical songs of whatever sort or era to a conference in Australia! @oskarjensen.bsky.social www.songstudies.org/announcement...
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Announcements by Network Members | Song Studies Network
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Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's nearly real!! boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-bal...
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The Ballad Trade and its Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain
Investigates the creative and commercial processes that enabled engagement between popular music and politics in seventeenth-century England.
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dadonadyingplanet.bsky.social @dadonadyingplanet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
News I'd like to wake up to tomorrow: Farage lost. And Fox lost his deposit. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Alex Gallagher @alexgallagher.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
If Angela Raynor had to resign for unwittingly avoiding paying £40k tax, shouldn't Tice be sacked for deliberately avoiding paying £600k? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Britons should strive to pay minimum tax legally possible, says Richard Tice
Reform UK’s deputy leader comments came as he was responding to questions raised about his own tax affairs
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Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Job Klaxon! Three great opportunities for up-and-coming postdocs at Newcastle www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
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Newcastle University hiring Research Assistant/Associate: Mainstream Song, Class, and Culture 1520-2020 in Newcastle, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 1:26:21 AM. Salary: Research Assistant - £33,002 to £34,610 per annumResearch Associate - £35,608 to £46,049…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
51% Labour members said they do not want Keir Starmer to resign as Prime Minister over the scandal, with 16% unsure, and 34% of members want to see Starmer leave Number 10. Source: Labour List and Survation poll
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Kentish Fran #FBPE @kentishfran.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Brought to you by Mr Brexit himself. Let's hear it for Nigel Farage. Booo
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Jerry Howse @jerryh1962.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Nigel Farage’s ancestor spotted at Whitby Abbey.
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Imran Bristol @imranicus.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"Hereditary peer banned from House of Lords" The Earl of Shrewsbury is banned for just two weeks (his second such offence) - interestingly in any other country the BBC would probably refer to this as corruption. But it's an Earl in Blighty so the word is avoided. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Earl of Shrewsbury banned from House of Lords for two weeks
The Earl of Shrewsbury broke rules on claiming travel expenses, a conduct committee finds.
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rmcl82.bsky.social @rmcl82.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This shameless and outright fascism, flagrant violation of international law, and monstrous inhumanity, was Reform Party policy before Suella Braverman joined. How much worse will it get now? www.reformparty.uk/view-pdf/ref...
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Operation Restoring Justice | Reform UK
Reform UK is Britain's fastest growing political party. Join us to fix broken Britain with common sense policies on immigration, the economy, the NHS and more.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Left: Nigel Farage suggests that Alex Pretti was openly carrying a gun Right: Evidence shows Alex Pretti had a phone in one hand, and the other hand was empty
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Rachel Reeves to announce £300m bailout for pubs The chancellor has been drawing up plans for relief on business rate bills but is resisting plans to extend this across the hospitality sector www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Rachel Reeves to announce £300m bailout for pubs
The chancellor has been drawing up plans for relief on business rate bills but is resisting plans to extend this across the hospitality sector
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AJ @robi1409.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This is why Braverman and Farage want to leave ECHR They want an ICE type force in this country and don't want to be 'hamstrung' by inconsequential things like human rights!
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Rocky Rex @rockyrex.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
UK politics. Please share, please keep sharing.
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Suzy Brewster @suzybrew.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It’s impossible for Starmer to fight the media feeding the public propaganda to create news. Perhaps those MPs should all be doing a better job in their constituencies to better promote Labour and stave off Reform.
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Pete @ouch-that-hurts.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Remmber this is what Farage wants to bring to the UK along with removing the NHS
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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Farage, Tice and the loathsome Lowe all get paid by X for posting hate posts and reactions to them. They’re now associated with the vile AI grok trade, which is fitting. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Lib Dems call on Reform MPs to donate income from X to charity amid Grok row
Exclusive: Party says Nigel Farage and colleagues receiving ‘tainted money’ for their posts on Elon Musk’s platform
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
🎭It's our end of year round up for 2025.🎉 Our various online haunts have hit 180,000 and we've covered over 65% of all of the plays from before the closing of the theatres in 1642 in initial First Looks, and an increasing number of return visits and productions. Here's to more adventures in 2026!
Light blue background with the words "The Beyond Shakespeare Company podcast - 180,000 + listens and views of the podcast and videos"On a light blue background, three percentage bars of plays Beyond Shakespeare have covered from the pre-modern period, up to the end of 2025.
First Looks - initial readings - 65%
Second Looks - follow up runs - 15%
Full Cast Audio Adaptations - 9%
The percentage of plays covered are approximate and varies depending on your definition of play. Not all readings or productions have been released publicly.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 31/12/2025
New British passport to feature king’s coat of arms and enhanced security
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New British passport to feature king’s coat of arms and enhanced security
Document said to be ‘most secure ever’ has anti-forgery holographs and depicts beauty spots from the four home nations A new British passport, claimed to be the most secure ever produced and featuring King Charles’s coat of arms on the front cover, has come into use. Pages inside depict beauty spots from the four nations of the UK: Scotland’s Ben Nevis; England’s Lake District; the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland and Three Cliffs Bay in Wales. Continue reading...
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Some 2026 predictions 1. Trump will expire in 2026 2. Farage will come out of hiding, take a few questions & disappear again 3. Starmer will be leader NYE 26 4. Rayner & Haigh will be reappointed as Ministers 5. Polanski will mess up big time 6. Wales will elect Plaid Cymru
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Adam Drummond @adamdrummond.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
A lot of this is due to things this govt hasn't really had much to do with (X and others abandoning their moderation responsibilities meaning more stuff goes to the police as the first point of escalation when they aren't equipped or appropriate to handle it) but have become the face of
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Adam Drummond @adamdrummond.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Something else I think is underappreciated is how the government's (IMV totally correct) hard-line response to the 2024 riots has made Starmer the posterchild for every single "racists are being treated unfairly" story on X and other outlets.
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James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Fun find today, tucked up under the ceiling of the House of Commons: graffiti left by stonecarvers Marcel & Maurice Joanisse. The two started under Dominion Sculptor Eleanor Milne in the early 70s, but apparently were already working here in the 60s. Maurice would become Dominion Sculptor in 1993.
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nanaj.bsky.social @nanaj.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Yet another example of hypocrisy from Farage
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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
What is in the UK government’s child poverty strategy? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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What is in the UK government’s child poverty strategy?
Several elements had already been announced, including lifting the two-child benefit cap and increasing free school meals
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liseabetta.bsky.social @liseabetta.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
#Cdnpoli #UK #Farage Useful idiot.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
This clip from 2019 of Matt Frei asking Farage about Arron Banks funding his lifestyle is wild considering recent events. He’s not only walking with convicted Russian asset, Nathan Gill, but at the end when again asked who’s paying for it all, he says: “Russians!” youtube.com/shorts/nRAkR...
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'Who paid for all of this, Nigel Farage? Aaron Banks?' Farage: 'Russians!'
YouTube video by Quiet Majority
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Lynne Jones @lynnejonesorguk.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
“These individuals, along with UK figures like Nigel Farage, have systematically promoted the "techno-feudalist" model that treats citizens as customers and democracy as an inefficient bureaucracy.”
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MakeBritainNiceAgain @grahamgrumps.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Or, to put it another way .... #Farage admits he is a racist - but doesn't think that should matter www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Nigel Farage denies saying anything racist ‘with malice’ as he attacks BBC
Reform UK leader launches tirade against broadcaster in latest effort to address claims of abuse from school contemporaries
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brexit_sham @brexitshambles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Farage dragging his jackboots over sacking a Reform UK council leader who told a black British lawyer to “fuck off back to Nigeria” called Sadiq Khan a “narcissistic Pakistani” and said migrants were “colonising the UK”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Nigel Farage urged to sack Reform council leader accused of racism
Party is investigating Ian Cooper as Labour MPs call for him to resign as leader of Staffordshire county council
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The British pound builds year-end momentum against its main rivals. The currency recorded its best day in a month Wednesday, with analysts attributing the performance to the pound to rising investor confidence that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next week and continue to deliver .
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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
*My* analysis: Rachel Reeves isn't going anywhere *because she is a very competent Chancellor, doing a fine job*. And Sir keir Starmer isn't in danger of losing his job *because he is the most effective, successful Prime Minister we've had for a century or more*.
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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Ah, this is sad news.
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Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright famed for his wit and depth, dies at 88
Winning an Oscar for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, he captivated the hearts of audiences for more than six decades.
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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Always a joy to work with Morgan's map of London (1682), especially the wonderful drawings of ships. 🗃️ www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays...
Black and white map of London including the Tower and River Thames.
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Tealeaf @tealeaf.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Are MI5 running your party‽ Or is it just that they couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.
Guardian article: Your Party conference thrown into chaos as Zarah Sultana boycotts first day

The Guardian
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Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
'Richardson warned that if “the Guardian proceeds to publish any allegation suggesting that Mr Farage engaged in, condoned, or led racist or antisemitic behaviour, or that such claims bear upon his present character or fitness for office, proceedings will be issued without further notice.”'
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Metaphor Man @metaphorman.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
GLP discovered over half referrals onto PPE VIP Lane had ties back to the Tories & in particular to members of HoL Just 3 Tory peers, Lord Agnew, Lord Deighton & Lord Feldman, alongside former health minister Matt Hancock, were responsible for referring a total of 60 suppliers onto the VIP Lane
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Covid Inquiry: The Conservative Peers Named in the VIP Lane Scandal
As the Covid Inquiry slams Boris Johnson's Government's ‘too little, too late’ response to Covid, Russell Scott looks at the Conservative peers who are implicated in the UK's disastrous response
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OnTheNaughtyStep @onthenaughtystep.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Now I’ve fully digested the Budget : 1: It is good. 2: the months of frothing was @ChrisMasonBBC wank 3: Kier Starmer is PM until the next GE
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Tor Lillqvist @tango-mike-lima.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Starmer’s government, all is perhaps forgiven, for that glorious line ”We are ramping up sanctions on Russia and we are freezing known Russian assets. But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the honourable member for Clacton."
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HerbalKOxon @herbalkoxon.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Racist slurs aren’t racist, is Farage’s latest defence. He’s tried: - I didn’t say it. - Nobody was offended. - It was ok back then. - I was just a kid. But he’s been doing it for years since, it was offensive, it wasn’t ok, and he definitely did say it. A vote for Farage is a vote for hate.
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