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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Today, selling a £1m house and moving to a £400,000 flat won’t change your children’s IHT. The estate is the same size. Under the Tory proposal, the £1m house was exempt from IHT, but the £600,000 you released is fully subject to IHT. Your house move caused £240,000 IHT.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Bristol people! Tomorrow I'll be rushing to Clifton Downs after work to hand out free eclipse glasses (while stocks last) & operate a solar telescope. Bristol Astronomical Society will be there too. Do feel free to join us for some safe eclipse viewing! www.wethecurious.org/whats-on/eve...

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Partial Solar Eclipse 2026

Experience the amazing partial solar eclipse with the planetarium team from We The Curious.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026

For Musk, "government fraud and waste" is a single mom on food stamps who misses a box on a 600-page form because she's exhausted from working three jobs to make rent - not a no-bid contractor trousering billions in public funds for projects that overcharge and underdeliver. 41/

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Kris Kohoutek @kriskohoutek.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Bristol Museum has a Thylacine. Shipped from Tasmania to Britain in 1910, he died soon after arriving but here he is now. I’m not ashamed to say I was welling up looking at the poor guy, his entire species exterminated because of money. Sleep well, dude.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This artwork perfectly captures the annual Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling race which happens every Spring Bank Holiday 🧀 Explore cheese in art 👉 artuk.org/discover/curations/the-ar… 🧑‍🎨 Charles March Gere (1869–1957) © the artist's estate. 📷 Gloucester Museums Service Art Collection

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 12/05/2026

Somehow GameStop left that condition off when making its offer.

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The evidence is growing: Trump’s team are using his chaos to get richer on the stock market 🔗 Read @jamesrball.com's full article: buff.ly/itCimQH

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Thomas Hammoudi @thomashammoudi.com · 03/03/2026

Sur Eigg, s'épanouit une communauté qui, loin de l'agitation mondaine, a su tisser sa propre utopie, capteur solaire et éolienne en main. Un récit visuel de Charles Delcourt à découvrir. Ps : j'avais pu l'interviewer ici www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywqLYK5FALA

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Scottish Wildlife Trust @scotwildlife.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Looking for an island adventure? 👀 We're looking for: 📌Volunteer Rangers on the Isle of Eigg 📌Monthly volunteers on Handa Island 📌Volunteer Assistant Rangers on Handa Island Start exploring here. 👇 buff.ly/YpcGYVQ

A photo of a sandy beach on the Isle of Eigg, off the north-west coast of Scotland. There are gentle waves lapping on the sand stretching into the blue sea in the distance. There are green hills on the right of the photo while further beyond there are mountains silhouetted against the blue sky.
Photo taken by Corinne Thompson.

A photo taken looking out to sea on Handa Island, off the north-west coast of Scotland. The photo is tinged orange by the setting sun which is sitting low in the sky and directly in the centre of the shot. In the foreground there is rocky patches of grass while beyond the sea stretches away to silhouetted mountains on the horizon. There are two people standing on the grass also silhouetted in the light.
Photo taken by Danni Thompson.

A photo taken from the cliffs on Handa Island off the north-west coast of Scotland. The photo is looking across to another rugged cliff face topped with scrubby green grass. The clif is stained white in multiple places indicating seabird nests. Below, the sea is deep blue with large areas of white water where the sea meets the rocky shore.
Photo taken by Dannin Thompson on the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Handa Island Wildlife Reserve.

A photo taken of Boulders Bay on Handa Island, off the north-west coast of Scotland. In the foreground, there is a rocky beach scattered with large boulders. Closer to the sea there are patches of seaweed clinging to the rocks. Beyond, the sea stretches round the rocky island coast, reaching silhouetted mountains on the mainland in the distance.
Photo taken by Camilla Blasi Foglietti.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Morning all. Photograph by Martin Parr, Isle of Rhum in the background, Isle of Eigg, Scotland, 1998.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Intrigued by the idea of Matthew Rhys starring in a Netflix limited series adaptation of THE POWER BROKER, but honestly you could do 6-8 hours just on the Cross Bronx Expressway or Robert Moses vs. Jane Jacobs.

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Matthew Rhys Is In Talks With Netflix Over Adaptation Of Robert Caro’s ‘The Power Broker’

Matthew Rhys is in talks with the streamer over the adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 22/11/2025

‘A lot of the non-recyclable plastic that we in the global north produce ends up getting exported to other parts of the world where it becomes someone else's problem.’ On the pod: @brettchristophers.bsky.social and @moonjets.bsky.social on where our waste goes. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Where does our waste go?

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 19/11/2025 · 57m

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 21/11/2025

‘During the Second World War, American and British scientists tried to solve the problem by making penicillin synthetically in a test tube. But they failed. The fungi were capable of far more advanced metabolic magic.‘ Liam Shaw on the challenges of antiobiotics. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

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Liam Shaw | Metabolic Magic

Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in long...

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Tony Robertson @tonyrobertson82.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

PhD opportunity with @mark-glasgow.bsky.social, me and Mhairi Mackenzie looking at the Relational Determinants of Intersectional Health Inequalities. Get in touch if you'd like to discuss. tinyurl.com/RelateHealth

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

More than tax or public services, Labour’s singular pitch - to the electorate, investors and allies - was the promise of a decade of stable technocratic leadership after the “Tory psychodrama”. A party incapable of delivering that is going to have to find better pretexts than “but my activists”

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War Movie Theatre @warmovietheatre.com · 31/10/2025

Terrorism! Torture! Oppression! Liberation! Defeat! Victory! This week we're watching the movie that has it all: The Battle of Algiers. Is it a training film for rebels or counter-insurgents? How does it manage to be, in the words of Roger Ebert, "both passionate and neutral"? champ.ly/wjbcgHT0

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

New @lrb.co.uk ON POLITICS: I speak with @danielagabor.bsky.social & Andy Haldane on bond markets, gilt vigilantes, and the role of Britain's central bank. Instructive and hugely illuminating conversation on finance, democracy, & how we get out of the doom loop. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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On Politics: Do bond markets and the Bank of England run Britain?

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 10/29/2025 · 1h 6m

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Harry Wingfield, of the Ladybird books and others, is among the most underestimated illustrators of C20. One of the best exhibitions I have been (I have been to 100s) was a retrospective of his original work in Walsall. Follow @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social for regular servings of Ladybird goodness.

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RobWilliams100 @robwilliams100.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

This is the book that @mrjamesob.bsky.social just discussed with #RussellScott. In a sane country, the Tories would be finished for good

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

REMINDER: FT Schools provides free access to FT.com for 16-19 year olds and their teachers at schools around the world. More than 73,000 students in 132 countries are already reading us through the programme professional.ft.com/en-gb/servic...

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Slapstick Festival @slapstickfest.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

🚨 1 DAY TO GO TIL FAWLTY TOWERS AT 50 🚨 Join John Cleese in conversation with ITV West Country Presenter Alex Lovell at St George's Bristol tomorrow to celebrate the sitcom voted the Greatest of All Time turning 50 - link below for tickets 🎟️

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 06/07/2025

Today an army of volunteers from Bristol River Avon Trust and @protect.earth joined forces to smash Himalayan Balsam on the Bristol Frome. The group of 40 volunteers cleared from Iron Acton to Frampton Cotterell, joining up with existing local groups work through Yate to the source at Doddington.

Deep water swallowing a few volunteers for a moment.

Volunteers in ankle deep water slashing and pulling invasive Himalayan balsam.

Lots of Himalayan balsam laying on the ground, slashed and pulled from a river edge.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

17 July 1944 | Jane Haining, a Church of Scotland missionary in Budapest perished in the German Nazi Auschwitz camp. Her last message to friends was a postcard asking for food. She ended her letter with the words: “There is not much to report here on the way to heaven.”

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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The Wave has closed suddenly today, with bookings cancelled. A Bristol Live investigation has revealed it went into administration two months ago & has been trying to refinance millions of pounds debt since then. www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

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The Wave closes suddenly as facility battles debt and administration

Bookings have been cancelled but its majority owners say they have a refinancing package

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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A fake video masquerading as a report by The Sun has gone viral. It baselessly claims Olena Zelenska has bought Princess Diana's "revenge dress" from Harry and Meghan for $2.9m. The clip is likely the work of a known Russian disinformation operation that mimics news outlets to disparage Ukraine.

Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut

Dear American taxpayers. You just purchased Zelensky’s wife a Princess Diana dress for $2.9 million. Despicable!!

Readers added context they thought people might want to know

Diana sold the dress at her Christie’s auction in 1997. It was purchased by a Scottish couple for £39,098. They are still the rightful owners, and the dress is currently on display at the Museum of Style in Newbridge, County Kildare

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Keith Broomfield @keithbroomfield.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

These Arisaig sunsets are mind blowing – Eigg and Rum, plus crystal clear seas abounding with life. Perfect in every way imaginable

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Ones and Tooze @onesandtooze.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Episode #185: The U.S.-China Economic Relationship Prior to U.S. President Donald Trump's latest tariff announcement, hosts @adamtooze.bsky.social and Cameron Abadi took an overall look at the current economic relationship between the U.S. and China: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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The U.S.-China Economic Relationship

Podcast Episode · Ones and Tooze · 04/04/2025 · 43m

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Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The dirty 15 economies that are top of Trump’s shit list is featured in this morning’s Chartbook Top Link.

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Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Today's Chartbook features one of the largest abandoned buildings in Europe, the ICC Berlin. With a gross floor area of approximately 213,021 square meters, the abandoned building truly is a modernist triumph. Subscribe to Chartbook for a video on the €1 billion abandoned mega-build!

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 07/03/2025

Jef Bourgeau, Blue Birch Marsh

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 19/02/2025

I could do these all day.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

When people see the maple leaf, they see possibility. They see freedom. They see a helping hand. They see Canada, and the best of our values. Happy 60th to our flag. 🇨🇦

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This tweet has more retweets than the number actual votes cast

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 15/02/2025

And finally an actual Blue Sky commission! @philtinline.bsky.social writes about why hoarding gold is such a powerful (and cursed) activity. Image that makes me 10 years old through kind permission of Tolkein estate thanks to our brilliant Hilary Kirby. I may have to delete this on.ft.com/40YTWfJ

Conversation with Smaug, an illustration from the Hobbit by JRR Tolkein depicts a dragon, lazily coiled around his mountain of gold. The definitive image of fatal greed and miserliness which you have to ask the Tolkein estate VERY VERY nicely to reproduce. Thank you the Tolkeins.

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Realised I didn’t post this. While local govt is set to be reorganised, a wave of councils wont have their books signed off for 2018-2022 on.ft.com/3Bue7JK

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Scores of English council accounts to be published without auditor approval

[FREE TO READ] Lengthy backlogs caused by chronic lack of capacity in local government and audit market

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

✨That feeling you have when you've always wanted to see a place because of its remarkable continuity and survival, a place that held the bones of Saxon saints and kings - and you get the 1st glimpse and it's everything you imagined. The C9th crypt at St. Wystan’s, Repton.

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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

First Bus have quietly stopped letting people in Bristol & Bath buy £2 singles valid for a year. Read the full story here👇🏼 www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

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FirstBus closes loophole for customers to stockpile £2 tickets before cap rise

The loophole allowed customers to purchase single journey tickets for £2 prior to the price cap rise in the new year

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