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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Various people have noted that this makes it sound like the Greens have another candidate in mind, but the bigger issue is that the Church of England is not “Britain’s” established church, and actually never has been.

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Further evidence, as if any were needed, that Labour must stop chasing after Reform voters, who hate Labour.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Listen to @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social discuss the latest evidence on the use of Physician Associates in the NHS on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme - she's very clear! youtu.be/IWNw6nfnN3o

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Prof Trish Greenhalgh on BBC Radio 4 Today discussing the latest evidence on Physician Associates

YouTube video by Christina Pagel

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 06/03/2025

What in the world is going through Starmer's head? Labour keep trotting out the "world has changed" line to excuse other unpalatable decisions, but magically Brexit - and only Brexit - is sacrosanct? Absolutely asinine heel-dragging. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

It really is just destruction for destruction's sake

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

this is yet another way to crack down universities in the US. and a classic authoritarian play

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

A reminder: life expectancy in the EU is 81.5 years, in the US 77.4. Apart from Lithuania (2.21) the homicide rate in the EU is below 2, for 16 countries including Italy, Spain and Germany below 1. It is above 6 in the US.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Casablanca is a wonderful movie. I used to wonder why it didn’t feel hokey, despite the somewhat implausible plot and the very blunt symbolism of the Marseilles scene, but I know think it’s because this stuff really matters *and those making the picture knew, many of them first hand*.

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Duchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 @gemmagould.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Incoming temper tantrum from Mango Mussolini when he realises that Zelenskyy is meeting the King first

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Louca-Mai Brady @louca-mai.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I keep thinking of Margaret Atwood saying that everything in the Handmaid's Tale had already happened somewhere in the world

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

'Spare a thought for the poor old King,' is not a feeling I ever expected to have...

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I do - reluctantly- support the defence increase but cutting the aid budget is both cruel and unwise. Yes, I’m aware the alternative would be a tax rise and I am ok with that.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Edinburgh University to seek £140m in savings

Unions said the plans would result in "devastating cuts" and called for Edinburgh University to use some of its assets instead.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

If there’s a nation that needs to be expelled from the Five Eyes it isn’t Canada.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 23/02/2025

The evening is perfect, my sisters. The loch lies silent, the air is still. The sun’s last rays linger over the water and there is a faint smirr, almost a smudge of summer rain. Sisters, I smell supper… —Edwin Morgan, “Midge” published in THE MAP & THE CLOCK, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2016

MIDGE
Edwin Morgan

The evening is perfect, my sisters.
The loch lies silent, the air is still.
The sun’s last rays linger over the water
and there is a faint smirr, almost a smudge
of summer rain. Sisters, I smell supper,
and what is more perfect than supper?
It is emerging from the wood,
in twos and threes, a dozen in all,
making such a chatter and a clatter
as it reaches the rocky shore,
admiring the arrangements of the light.
See the innocents, my sisters,
the clumsy ones, the laughing ones,
the rolled-up sleeves and the flapping shorts,
there is even a kilt (the god of the midges,
you are good to us!). So gather your forces,
leave your tree trunks, forsake the rushes,
fly up from the sour brown mosses
to seek the flesh of face and forearm.
Think of your eggs. What does the egg need?
Blood, and blood. Blood is what the egg needs.
Our men have done their bit, they’ve gone,
it was all they were good for, poor dears. Now
it is up to us. The egg is quietly screaming
for supper, blood, supper, blood, supper!
Attack, my little Draculas, my Amazons!
Look at those flailing arms and stamping feet.
They’re running, swatting, swearing, oh they’re hopeless.
Keep at them, ladies. This is a feast,
this is a midsummer night’s dream.
Soon we shall all lie down filled and rich,
and lay, and lay, and lay, and lay, and lay.

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Prof. Catherine Rowett, ex MEP @catherinerowett.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

All water should be nationalised.

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Chris “OH NO! DISASTER! WHAT A BAD IDEA!” Dobbertean @bracketdobber.net · 22/02/2025

“Competency cosplayer” That is brilliant.

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is happening, right now. The great "arribada" (arrival) of mother Olive Ridley sea turtles on the Odisha coast, where they dig sand-nests & lay their eggs, driven by ancient instinct. Heart-lifting, magnificent, moving: part of a geography of hope. 🎞️ by Bivash Pandav via my friend Yuvan Aves.

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Secret Edinburgh @secretedinburgh.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Edinburgh things: Burke & Hare were NOT grave robbers Always thank the bus driver It's pronounced CO-burn -you're gonna love Bellenden Gardens and Dick Place 🙄 Steps. They're everywhere. Even at the top of steps. You cannot avoid them. The One O’Clock Gun goes off at one o’clock. Others?

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

"Anti-migrant politics will not build a single house, staff a single hospital or raise anyone’s wages. Instead, by echoing its rhetoric, the government is simply fuelling the rise of Reform UK" Well done to these Labour MPs, trade unionists, and members. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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More than 900 Labour figures decry party’s migration and asylum policy

Joint statement accuses government of copying Tories’ ‘performative cruelty’

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

International students should be welcomed. Most of the public agree. Yet here we are, having made it a hostile environment for them, and trashing one of our most productive sectors in the process.

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

47 might need to be careful what he wishes for.

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I recently wrote to my (Labour) MP begging that they stop this Reform appeasement stuff & instead start helping people who feel left behind by investing in improving public services and welfare benefits. I'm entirely content if this means raising taxes for higher earners.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Wait, what? You're desperately worried about integration and then the first policy you come out with is to make citizenship, which has long been seen as a key element of integration, more difficult? Even leaving aside the administrative nightmare you'd probably create, that's odd - to say the least.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Those crossed forelegs!

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A youth mobility scheme only sounds like freedom of movement, Mr Mason, if the media fail to explain it. #r4today

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Saint Bride John Duncan 1913 The 1st February is #StBridget ‘s Day (also known as #StBride). In this painting (by the Scottish Symbolist painter, #JohnDuncan) she is being carried by angels across the Sound of #lona. National Gallery of #Scotland, #Edinburgh #Art 🧵 1/?

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper on SkyNews right now is just plain wrong. The proposal for a youth mobility scheme falls far short of “free movement” because it only allows individuals to come for a limited period & does not allow them to settle in the UK or EU member state

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This is, by some distance, the most unforgivably stupidest thing the government is doing. An easily sellable proposal, which would actually help Brits, and unlocks meaningful negotiation. Irrational and anti-growth.

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Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush @raushenbush.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Noting that Elon Musk attacked the Lutheran Church's work providing services, and that JD Vance attacked Catholic Bishops for their work with immigrants. Fair to say that this administration is one of the most hostile to religion and religious freedom that we have seen in recent memory.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Trump’s friends really do have a problem understanding the plain meaning of Scripture, don’t they?

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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

A tiny watchful fragment in the chapter house at Durham Cathedral. #StainedGlassSunday

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Just to focus for a moment on a local bright spot.

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

☀️ Missing the sun these days? Don’t worry—you can look at this one smiling back at you in this volvelle, sewn into one of our medieval manuscripts. What’s a volvelle, you ask? 🤔 Well, you’ll just have to visit our upcoming exhibition to find out 👇

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Thus far I have arrived at: maple syrup, Canadian whisky, strong Canadian bread flour, mustard (even if blended in France), lentils. Interesting combination of things.

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Sr Judith @srjudithl.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Today’s feast, the Presentation of the Lord is the last feast that touches on Christmastide. It promises us that even in the darkest times there is light, and that however dark it gets the light will not be overwhelmed. The prophetess Anna encapsulates this hope.

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Ooh. BBC4 is going to reshow the 1971 serialisation of Sunset Song, by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Two - Sunset Song, Series 1, The Unfurrowed Field

'Two Chris Guthries there were that fought for my heart and tormented me.'

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I'm not saying that it's a bad idea to attract bright American minds; it's just that you have thousands of equally bright minds back home who can't break through because they graduated from a Noname University and their parents don't have old money to support their mobility.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🔥 This is an absolutely devastating set of figures on the UK public's view of Brexit. Absolutely damning. Look at each category one by one - particularly the economic ones. YouGov article on these data here. 👉 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

GB News, "Surely Brexit is a good thing?" Andy Dixon, Fisherman, "It's been bad. It hasn't worked out as the government promised.. Locally, in North Shields, it's been a bit of a disaster" GB News, "In what way?" Andy Dixon, "Red tape, documentation, it's 100x what it used to be"

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is what Trump’s cruelty and chaos has unleashed.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

There are around 10k private school kids in Edinburgh. 51 have moved to state schools in January. As I've repeatedly said the effects of VAT on fees are going to be minimal. www.thetimes.com/article/ab42...

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VAT on private school fees puts Edinburgh state schools at capacity

Majority of the capital’s 15 private schools are understood to have lost pupils, dispersed to state schools throughout the city

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 16/01/2025

Working towards a Customs Union will unlock big benefits now. Ripping up the red tape that is holding back British firms and costing our economy billions. It would be a win-win for our country, and I still can’t understand why the Government continues to rule it out.

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