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Cliff Williamson

@drcliffy.bsky.social
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Historian, food aficionado, football fan. Currently writing about Ramsay MacDonald, also a book about the Mellotron. Cat is called Dexter.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026
Prison?
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I did some printmaking over bank holiday first in over a year. ‘Pull your socks up’ 8 layer reduction linocut.
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Archives research Today.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Great work by Rob and Duncan negotiating Gettysburg this week on @warmovietheatre.com I first saw it on a hookey VHS transfer from a laser disc back in the day. Bought from the barras in Glasgow, also source of rave tapes and ripped PC games. Those were the days.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Clacton: battle of the titans. Count Binface vs Count Torn Face.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I am not a crook vibes from Farage.
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Happy birthday Ringo Starr, 86 today. He still owns Maureen's red vinyl raincoat.
Ringo Starr photographed in 2025 with drum kit and wearing the red vinyl raincoat he wore for the Beatles' rooftop concert in 1969.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nice FU from the Belgians.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Mad King has mad people proposing mad things. Steal Greenland and get all you can eat shrimp. Just delusional. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland
“We want Greenland,” Trump said. Four men sprang into action to make fantasy a reality.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The copters are out. Burnham arriving by train as Wilson did at Euston too I think.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Still marvelling at a prime minister being forced to resign because of a by-election that his party *won*
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Here we go again.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Dexter looks like a car mechanic repairing an engine!
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
American Nativism goes back to it anti-catholic roots.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Bela Lugosi’s Red!
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New Boards of Canada music incoming. Best news of the night. Oh yes and Trump blinked.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Dexter planning his next move in battle for Normandy war game!
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Dexter has new toy.
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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
[Sade voice 🎵]
A picture of a packet of instant mash mix titled "smooth mashed potato"
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Trump doing his usual keeping everyone waiting routine at presser.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Another week another Trump war threat, possibly three Iran, Iraq and Venezuela. There is nothing that madman won’t do to distract from US domestic bad news.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23/01/2026
Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today
Visit of the
Prime Minister of Denmark
22nd Jawary 2026
We'll get by with a little help from our friends
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Weekly linoprint retrospective.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Reduction linoprint
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
More printmaking memories
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
A linoprint from a while back.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
There is no words to describe how appalling the World Cup draw show is. Only enlivened by Johnathan Pearce on YouTube showing no mercy.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
www.brlsi.org/whatson/jann...
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Jann Haworth- My life with Sergeant Pepper!
Renowned pop artist Jann Haworth reflects on her extraordinary life & co-designing the "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" cover with Peter Blake!
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The Prince sits on his cushion.
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Chuck Tee @chutry.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This is brilliant
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 08/10/2025
And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland
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They May Be Parted @theymaybeparted.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Happy anniversary to our beloved Abbey Road LP, a spry 56 years old today and sounding as freshly fab as it did Sept. 26, 1969, the day it was released. Usual shameless promo: Catch up on Abbey Road’s deep roots in the Beatles’ Get Back sessions here: theymaybeparted.com/tag/abbey-ro...
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
How long are Labour people going to watch while Starmer stumbles from disaster to disaster: Deputy PM and US ambassador gone in a week. Can they do anything about it?
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
This calamity Government is getting more calamitous. Staggering self inflicted wounds.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I did a back of envelope calculation on the situation for Labour in polls after 14 months in Government since 1945 using Gallup and then Yougov data. The 14 points lost since July 24 is unprecedented the closest was 8 points 14 months after 66 GE. The largest recovery was from 64-66 at 5%.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/08/2025
"This stuff at CDC and HHS isn’t getting me any more power, or glory, or money. And everything that’s happening is in the service of Bobby. Not me. It’s getting like it was with Elon. He became the story" - Trump right now?
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Camelot for Crazies
RFK Jr. f*cked around. Now we get to find out.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Sad news, but will be playing this in his honour. I always think of his song ‘Bright college days’ at each graduation day I attend.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Printmaking. First for a while.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/07/2025
What happened with the prime minister of the UK, Keir Starmer, provides a stark case study for the limits—both practical and moral—of giving ground. @polphilpod.bsky.social on not letting "moderation" turn into embracing the values of the far right:
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When Moderation Becomes Appeasement
If your chief goal is to find a middle ground with the far right on social issues, you’ll end up condoning its values—just ask Keir Starmer.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Listen to me discuss year zero of the Starmer Government at 10.15 on BBC Radio Somerset.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Political rhetoric has a very consistent character. Here is PM Ramsay MacDonald emphasising the limitations of action but the consequences of what he called ‘unproductive debt’ in 1935. Could still used today.
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Beatles Books Podcast @beatlesbookspod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Happy All You Need is Love day. Thank goodness we have these beautiful David Magnus colour photos to see just how vibrant it all looked.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
End of another yellow pad. Notes for a BBC Somerset interview about Trump.
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Pakora making
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
New Stereolab album. Nice!
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MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Lego cat 😂 #CatsOfBlueSky
A Lego version of a tuxedo cat with one leg raised up and a tiny little pink tongue out, making it look like it’s licking its nethers 😂
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
It is marking season for academic’s. My current marking listening photograped below. Laura Halo’s Altas is in the middle
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Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Low on VE Day.
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