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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist

@bankwell.bsky.social
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Socialist: Internationalist: I🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Independence: Humanitarian: Human/Equal rights: Republic: EU: Music-Rock/Blues/Classical: Art: Literature: Architecture: Sport lover: Hoops🍀: ex-OS Cartographer “Gear society to social need not personal greed”

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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.” Tony Benn
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
You tell ‘em Woody.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up. Tony Benn
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Peder Severin Krøyer (1851 - 1909). Norwegian painter - member of the group known as the Skagen Painters. #Art #Artists
Painting of two women walking on shore Fishermen hauling in netsFamily having a meal Fishermen Relaxing on dunes
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Canadian Loyalist 🇨🇦 @shakespearesgal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Yup … technology is not all it’s cracked up to be … #cdnpoli
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Are you listening John Swinney?
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Meidas Scotland 🏴EU @sovereign.scot · 23/06/2026
Almost 5,000 people have joined the call for a halt to new hyperscale data centres in Scotland. The 24 applications in so far would require 1.5 times as much energy as all of Scotland uses at peak demand. We can't let this free-for-all continue. Please sign and share widely greens.scot/datacentres
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Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland
Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland -
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“Some men improve the world only by leaving it” - Oscar Wilde. One comes to mind in an instant.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I genuinely, honestly, don’t understand how it’s possible to ban/jail peaceful protesters campaigning for justice for Palestinians, or who are anti-monarchy, yet permit far right agitators to continue spewing hatred on X, which leads to actual harm and violence on our streets. How? Why?
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Many will not need to guess where I’ve been today.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present." Lao Tzu It’s the last one that’s a challenge these days.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
On this day 100 years ago General Strike 1926 - Nine days in May “Not a penny off the pay, not a minute on the day.’ Workers eventually sold out by the TU. www.tuc.org.uk/remembering-... #History
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General Strike 1926: Why It Happened and Why It Still Matters
Marking the centenary is an opportunity to reflect on the struggles of the past, recognise the courage of those who stood up for fair treatment, and continue the work of building a better future for w...
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. - George Orwell Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace -Bertrand Russell
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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Its basically a coup and treason. Advanced penetration in US, in progress in UK and starting in Canada. Mass organise and purge these traitors.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The Beveridge Report The post-war Labour government introduced the Welfare State (1945-1951) to address the Five Giants of Disease, Squalor, Want, Ignorance and Idleness. www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/gui... #History
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The Beveridge Report - Effectiveness of the Labour social welfare reforms, 1945–51 - Higher History Revision - BBC Bitesize
For Higher History, revise the Labour reforms that introduced the Welfare State and evaluate their effectiveness.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Gustave Caillebotte (1848 - 1894) - French impressionist painter #Art
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
www.tuc.org.uk/news/our-rig... Farage the fraud professes to be on the side of the working class. This is a lie of Trumpian proportions and he’s coming for hard won rights. He will be cribbing from Trumps Project 2025 as well For those in Scotland, dismantling of Holyrood is also on the agenda
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Our rights at work are under attack! #StopTheSteal
Reform UK has pledged to rip up legal protections for workers and renters.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 08/03/2026
The playbook is always the same: control women, protect power. This International Women’s Day, we want a system that actually protects us. We’re fighting back for Nina, for Liv, and for every woman the courts have silenced. Join the movement 👇 goodlaw.social/33094f
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Jean Béraud (1849 - 1935) - Russian born French painter renowned for his numerous paintings of every day Parisian life. #Art
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 - 22 August 1920) was a Swedish artist who attained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etching artist. #Art
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... This is Spain. Be like Spain.
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‘No to war’: Sánchez doubles down after Trump threat to cut off trade with Spain
PM says his country will not be complicit in growing conflict in Middle East ‘simply out of fear of reprisals from someone’
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
On this day in 1890 the Forth Bridge, Scotland, was opened. unesco.org.uk/our-sites/wo...
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The Forth Bridge | UNESCO in the UK
Opened in 1890, the Forth Bridge, spanning the Firth of Forth to the north-west of Edinburgh, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015. The world’s first major steel structure…
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Hans Andersen Brendekilde (1857 - 1942) - Danish painter.
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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Our occasional contributor Prick Knobinson reports in his own inimitable style the current situation on the state of fascism in the country today. Be prepared for a telling off! leftungagged.org/2025/04/26/p...
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Prick Knobinson - Ungagged - Farij's Fucking Hangover - Ungagged!
Tiocfaidh ár lá, get the fash’ out lad!
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Fred Dibnah (1938 – 2004) English steeplejack and TV personality ‘back in the day’. A true character who had a ‘real pair’ as they say Those not acquainted with him can access his many entertaining videos, still available on YouTube Short video 👇 youtube.com/shorts/D3yIJ... #workingclasshistory
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Fred Dibnah - The one Man demolisher #shorts
YouTube video by The Everyday Interesting
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Albert Edelfelt (1854 – 1905) - Finnish painter noted for his naturalistic style and Realist approach to art. #art
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The 1973 mellow voice of Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary fame. youtu.be/jwZLCoMO0ok
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That's Enough For Me - Peter Yarrow
YouTube video by nolo2786
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Bob Barker - English artist b.1954 Inspired by the Yorkshire mill towns that shaped his youth, Bob Barker is celebrated for his distinctive Northern Impressionism style.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Edwin Lutyens 1869 – 1944 English architect designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings. Not everyone’s cup of tea but Christopher Hussey wrote, "In his lifetime (Lutyens) was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not his superior”.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Roosevelt’s New Deal New Deal was a series of wide-reaching economic, social, and political reforms enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the US between 1933 and 1938, in response to the Great Depression, which had started in 1929 www.historyonthenet.com/authentichis... #politicalhistory
President Roosevelt photoNewspaper headlines of Roosevelt New DealPhoto of work programme of New DealPictograms of New Deal
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Back to the future.
Poster of ‘American made goods’
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Wemyss Bay Railway Station, Scotland. Surely one of the most attractive stations in UK.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Ordnance Survey - Trig Pillars/Points Re-triangulation of UK (1935-1962) - project to improve accuracy of maps of GB and replace original data of period 1783-1851 No longer in use but they will be a common sight for all ramblers/climbers in UK www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/a-histo... #geography
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
City of Dundee Closest professional football grounds in UK are Dens Park, home of Dundee FC and Tannadice Park, home of Dundee United FC. Just 183m apart both clubs currently play in the Scottish Premier League.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Malcolm T. Liepke born 1953 American painter noted for his representations of figures in interior environments. #art
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The Meikleour Beech Hedge Quoted by Guinness Book of Records and highest and longest in the World. located near Meikleour, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, was planted in the autumn of 1745 by Jean Mercer and her husband Robert Murray Nairne
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
What price democracy www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/gui...
Photo of book on American constitutionIllustration of US founding fathersIllustration of ‘we the people’Fears of founding fathers
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
It’s an age thing If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains. - George Bernard Shaw I’m afraid I’m not in alignment with George. Contradiction between link and attachment theconversation.com/age-not-clas...
Graph on voting age demographic
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The Truman Doctrine Policy of containment that US would provide political/military/economic aid to countries under threat of communist influences. Led to formation of NATO in 1949 Submitted to Congress in March 1947 and considered to be start of Cold War www.studentsofhistory.com/containment-...
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Statement on Private good, public bad
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Small selection of London Pubs Crown and Anchor Covent Garden The Anchor Southbank Lamb Tavern Leadenhall Black Friar Queen Victoria Street
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Spring forward, fall back. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
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When do the clocks go forward in the UK?
Elizabeth Rizzini with everything you need to know about the upcoming clock change.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Cadbury brothers built a factory town known as Bournville after the nearby river and French word for "town". By 1960 the trust held 1,000 acres with 3,500 houses The brothers believed in workers’s social rights and installed canteens, sport grounds and education facilities for every employee.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
When brothers fall out In 1919, Adi and Rudolph Dassler founded Geda shoe company. After 30 years of working together, the brothers fell out and separated. In 1948 Rudolph established Puma and 1949 Adi formed Adidas. Adidas is considered larger than Puma, though both are world renowned.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." - Founding Father James Madison
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The Flying Scotsman Built in 1923, it was the first train to clock 100mph on one of its Edinburgh to London runs in 1934. Retired by British Rail in 1963 after a working life covering two million miles. Fully refurbished, it still makes occasional runs and special appearances throughout UK.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Camille Rosalie Claudel (1864 – 1943) - French sculptor known works in bronze and marble. Model and confidante of Rodin. She died in relative obscurity after 30 years in an asylum but later gained recognition for the originality/quality of her art and now has a museum dedicated to her work #art
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This needs dusting down and aired every so often.
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Verminous Scot @etkwebster.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I remember hearing this at the time, Johnson obviously didn't care if SNHS workers died from Covid, as per he put England before Scotland and would have let our people die.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836 - 1902) better known as James Tissot was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist.
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