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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Number of men shouting "just fucking shoot" in English pubs reaching critical levels. #WorldCup #NORENG

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Are we sure it’s “weather” not Putin?

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Goethe’s colour theory work is fascinating: www.themarginalian.org/2012/08/17/g...

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Snowy night in Vilnius. Magical place

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Louise Alder ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

It struck me earlier that Dick Turpin’s name was actually Richard Turpin

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Is Ralph Fiennes going to be Pope now?

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Hamlet is up & running - and people seem to like it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Coming soon! To Wilton’s Music Hall. (I am so proud of this show.)

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Trump FIRES US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Too “woke”. Too “diverse”.

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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Exactly this

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

@lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social Hi Lyn - I’d like to invite you to an event. What is the best way of contacting you? Fiona

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

In 53 days Hitler destroyed a constitutional republic through constitutional means. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days

He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

She knew this would happen. That's what courage looks like. By contrast, look at the people in this shot. (With the possible exception of Vance's wife.)

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

So according to Donald Trump Jnr, Greenlanders desperately want to belong to the USA. What happens if the US actually *do* invade Greenland? What? We back Denmark & go to war with the USA???

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

So, if Donald Trump wasn’t about to be sworn in as US President he’d be going to prison? Is that right? If it is, then WTAF? 🤯🤯🤯🤯

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I’ve just read in The Times that we, the UK, are “triggering” Elon Musk. Yes, you read that correctly.

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George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Thanks to @jamesomalley.co.uk for endorsing this idea on his Substack (which you should follow, btw). open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...

It’s been a strange few days on social media, as the richest man in the world has spent most of his time not building rockets or even helping the incoming Trump administration. Instead, he’s been sending hundreds of tweets about “rape gangs” in Britain, supporting Tommy Robinson, and putting individual politicians, like Jess Phillips, in danger by levelling spurious allegations to an audience of 100m followers.
I’m genuinely not sure what the government’s response to this should be, given Musk’s closeness to Trump, who in just over two weeks will be in charge of our closest ally. So it’s basically a situation with no good outcomes. But I do think this suggestion from George Peretz is appealing: That in response to Musk’s nonsense, the government should duplicate its Twitter output on Bluesky.
As in the quoted section above, such a move would mean the government can nudge, in a small way, the incentives of which platform people should use. But I also think it would be an elegant diplomatic response, in lieu of doing anything that would directly burn our already limited pool of political capital with the next administration.

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

The best day of the year because from now the days get LONGER. From today we gain 2 minutes of extra light a day and by the middle of February that becomes 3 minutes 🎄🎄🎄👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Dr Kate Maltby @katemaltby.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I was lucky recently to see a preview of @fionalaird.bsky.social’s production of Hamlet, which will work with men in crisis. My latest column at @thestage.bsky.social argues that with prisons & social services collapsing, this work by artists is ever more vital www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/shak...

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Kate Maltby: Shakespeare has always engaged with those on society’s margins – it still does

Read thought-provoking commentary, analysis and discussion on the theatre industry from renowned arts journalists including Lyn Gardner, Natasha Tripney, West End Producer and more.

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This should really worry the living #### out of us all. It’s going to happen if we don’t do something

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

"We have no idea how many of the 2.1m people who have signed it would be eligible to vote were Starmer to suddenly decide to acquiesce. For that matter, we have no idea if they are real people at all." Me on petitions, direct democracy, and tea with Elon Musk www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

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Labour shouldn’t fear the facile general election petition

The party’s communication problem is far greater than some online signatures.

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

‘Tis done. F### you Elon Musk Seeeee ya

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 24/11/2024

Ok I win London’s “things the storm has blown into your garden” contest.

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This is horrifying. The poor man. Dear god what is wrong with people?

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

How long would your commute take in 1680? Mine would be about a day and a half. @camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️ www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The glorious Ted Honderich has left us. He taught me at UCL in the 80s. He was an inspiration, in his green corduroy three-piece-suits. I am sad. He was a terrific force for LIFE and enquiry and moving things ON. Lovely obit by @timcrane.bsky.social

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Sarfraz Manzoor @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

61 years ago today. Colour film photography from that time is just extraordinary.

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My 1980s. (All Gary Kemp’s fault but he’s not on here yet so I can’t berate him.) Happy days at UCL, and nights in Camden and Soho

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

19 November 1929 | A French Jewish boy, Charles Kaplon, was born in Montreuil. On 14 August 1942 he was deported to Auschwitz from Drancy. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

Photo of a young boy standing next to a decorative chair, wearing a formal suit and tie, set against a backdrop with classical architectural elements.

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Fiona Laird FRSA @fionalaird.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I was walking Jassy and @marikacobbold.bsky.social ‘s dog, Wilbur, last week (photographed here at our coffee stop) and someone asked me if they were BROTHERS

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