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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 8h

Yellow Hibiscus and Aster, from the Flowers of the Twelve Months: October, 1670-1710, by #YunBing (#Qingyu 清於; Haoru 浩如; Chinese, Qianlong era, active late C17th–early C18th). Held by Asian Art Museum, searchcollection.asianart.org/objects/5437... #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory

A delicate rectangular, portrait-mode painting against a gold background of a stalk of yellow hibiscus above, with two flower blossoms, arching from the right to the left side of the page; and below, as stalk of a plant with two red flowers next to a stalk of a plant with four flowers with blue petals and yellow centers. There are two square-shaped red stamps, one over the other, in the bottom left corner of the work.

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Danny Robins @dannyrobins.bsky.social · 14h

Welcome to the #Uncanny Halloween Countdown 2026! A new mini-Uncanny case every day till #Halloween! 🎃 This is an eerie one! Are you feeling #TeamSceptic or #TeamBeliever? See you tomorrow for another nugget of nightmare fuel! Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube

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Alf Dubs @alfdubs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm so very sad to hear of the death of Esther Ranzen who played an important role in reuniting me with Nicky Winton - the man who saved my life. It's so desperately sad that she couldn't choose assisted dying as was her wish.

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Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There’s the headline quote and then there’s the stuff about Everton … unless my eyes are playing tricks on me, the prime minister of this country is trying to sway an investigation into culprits of widespread corporate fraud in their favour. Truly, a jaw-dropping, appalling intervention.

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Jacqueline Riding @jacriding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From the September Issue Book Reviews - love the featured work “Lo Ting” (1997) by Jimmy Keung Chi Ming @theartnewspaper.bsky.social

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Alys Denby, spouting utter guff with huge confidence on Politics Live, like "bringing the review forward by a year is just kicking the can further down the road" and "if you bump into the Laffer curve you get no tax revenue at all", has no economic training I can find, except from Tufton Street.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why is this CAROUSEL OF NOBODIES constantly platformed by our state broadcaster? This woman was reviewing restaurants and books until recently - then she lands a spell with the Centre for Policy Studies and - hey presto! - she works for City AM and is on the BBC as some sort of expert on economics.

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People say Londoners are cold. But experts say what comes across as rudeness to some is a kind of “civil inattention” that’s necessary in big cities. We’re not mean – we’re just overwhelmed.

Another term for this behaviour is “civil inattention”, which sociologist Erving Goffman coined to explain how strangers in urban public recognise each other’s presence without engaging with them - ie. not staring or trying to chat. For years I have thought myself strange and rude for not making eye contact on the tube, even when people’s bodies are separated by just millimetres of stale air. But actually this is an act of self-preservation and respect.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Weston Big Wood is irreplaceable ancient woodland & a protected SSSI . Yet plans could see around 500 homes built on Tower Farm and Black Rock , enclosing it on both sides . We should be protecting places like this , not building right up to their edges . c.org/8bV8Vy5Gm6

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The fact that interest on illegal donations doesn't need to be returned creates a perverse incentive to receive impermissible donations in the first place. Why wouldn't you, if you can pocket quite significant interest, and there's no sanction if you return it within the legal time frame?

bylinetimes.com

Reform UK Could Pocket Nearly £500,000 in Interest if They Are Forced to Return £72 Million Crypto Billionaire Donations

EXCLUSIVE: Electoral Commission confirms interest earned on impermissible gifts can be kept, prompting calls for Nigel Farage to hand any proceeds to charity

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yesterday we relaunched the City of London’s Blue Plaque scheme with a plaque for Francis Barber. He was born a slave in Jamaica, brought to England as a child and freed. He was a servant to Dr Johnson, who made him his heir. After Johnson’s death Barber became a school master near Lichfield.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

£72m for Reform over the weekend could be just the tip of the iceberg There's nothing to stop Elon Musk giving, via a UK X subsidiary, £300m to Restore Britain today Or a Trump ally giving £500m to Farage via a UK-registered firm There's a v narrow window to tackle big money in the elections bill

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Neil Brand @neilkbrand.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Come on folks - this is a priceless asset that we will LOSE if the money is not raised in the next ten days!!! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-cinema...

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The Cinema Museum: HELP US BUY OUR HOME

After 40 years of uncertainty, we have a chance to secure our home. We need £500,000 to purchase our home and we have five months to do it!

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

For some reason the BBC chose the most miserable headline from an optimistic speech which said Ukraine had “already won” and that talk of Russian escalation was "not a problem" but a "sign of success".

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PM's top security adviser says Europe faces hard winter to keep pressure on Putin

In rare public remarks, Jonathan Powell said now was not the time for European nations to take their "foot off the gas".

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Reform has basically been bought by two crypto bros As @philbrickellmp.bsky.social told me, Burnham needs to act, urgently and amend Elections Bill “It’s incumbent on the government to move at pace... safeguard our politics from the funding arms race now staring back at all of us.”

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🔴 More than 80% of all the donations ever received by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK have come from just two cryptocurrency billionaires, new Democracy for Sale analysis reveals. “If that isn’t a massive corruption risk I don’t know what is.” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-8...

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BREAKING: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires

“If that isn't a massive corruption risk I don't know what is.”

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

From August 27: “If he doesn’t, Burnham will have wasted a huge opportunity to protect British democracy. Without radical action, the power of money in our politics will only get worse—much worse.” Burnham is failing his first big test as PM democracyforsale.substack.com/p/burnham-is...

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Burnham is failing his first big test as PM

The prime minister has the chance to end the power of the super-rich in British politics – he’s not taking it

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Phil, what steps are you and your colleagues in government taking to bring this back under control? Does the new PM realise just how big a bodge he has made? And can we rely on the Lords to ensure that any donations made after the ?March ? cut off date have to be returned?

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Labour should have acted quicker to stop this - and it may seriously regret not doing so

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ranvir Singh: "The Times was able to find 13 posts on X that named individual RNLI crew members.. one of these posts said 'first the traitors, then the invaders', which is a far right slogan, & it was shared by Elon Musk along with the photo of a gun. This is the stuff of 1939"

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Been thinking on how hard RW media works on a "Rise of The Far Right" narrative, @annettedittert.bsky.social. Maybe convincing us such results are inevitable is a precondition to such results. It diverts all efforts to delaying, rather than defeating them. They play to win, while we play for a draw.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/09/2026

London's homicide rate hit its lowest level since records began. Yet 40% of the public thought that murders had risen since 2019. That’s the danger of disinformation. We cannot accept it, and to defeat it, we’ve got to put pressure on the social media companies who profit from it.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Absolutely perfect pay off on this clip.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Labour Party in 1923. A series of three 'Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. The poster below was created to appeal to women voters after suffrage expansions Images courtesy of Bristol Museums)

A historic British political poster titled "Mothers-Vote Labour," designed by artist Gerald Spencer Pryse around 1910. A mother and child depicted wrapped in a deep blue shawl, standing against a dark background featuring industrial factory chimneys.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🧵Gerald Spencer Pryse was a prominent early 20th-century lithographer. He studied art in London and Paris, and won a prize at the Venice International Exhibition in 1907. A staunch socialist and an active member of the Fabian Society, his work was often politically

A vintage travel poster titled Whitby Cliffs, designed by British artist Gerald Spencer Pryse around 1925 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER)

a World War I fundraising poster created by British artist Gerald Spencer Pryse around 1915 for the Belgian Red Cross Fund. The powerful image shows Belgian refugees walking amongst the troops.

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Rob Dale @robdale.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And if you have any children under about 10, I highly recommend the #RNLI Storm Force membership for £18 a year. My children loved the magazine, updates, and facts about lifeboats. rnli.org/support-us/b...

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RNLI Storm Force membership and subscription

Sign up your kids to Storm Force – the RNLI’s junior membership club for under 11s, and they’ll learn about all things RNLI and vital water safety skills.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hello again! If you've been considering joining my online Gothic course with the University of Liverpool... there are still places and we need three more sign ups to run the course. Come join us for a deep dive in the 18th and early 19th century Gothic! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

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The Rise of the Gothic: 1764-1820 | Continuing Education | University of Liverpool

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

media: are these blackshirts fascists. andy burnham: good question. my favourite biscuit with tea is a custard cream although in culcheth we used to call them cuppy-busters.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 07/09/2026

We haven’t just changed our weather. We’ve changed the climate in which our weather happens. climatelabbook.substack.com/p/learning-f...

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Learning from the summers of 1976 and 2026

We have changed the climate in which our weather happens

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I plead with people not to propagate their "it won't make a difference; his supporters love him" gloom. Actually, Farage is on the ropes and he didn't get there by himself. He's there because people continue to believe resistance does make a difference. It's also wrong on the facts. 1/3

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is why I spend every waking hour - last night until 6am - doing this podcast. Because every click, every follow, subscription, and reply, is proof that we are not the only sane people left, looking on and asking, WHY IS EVERYONE TREATING THIS AS IF IT IS NORMAL? bsky.app/profile/quie...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A man who's not even an MP declares himself Shadow Home Sec, another resigns from a Great Office of State he's never held, two men with zero standing to represent UK and France sign a treaty and instead of exposing this bizarre festival of delusion media is praising their reenactment costumes. WTAF

Dear Nigel,
5 September 2026
MY COMMITMENT
At Reform UK's conference today, I have publicly committed to increasing the tax-free Personal Allowance to £15,000, in my first Budget called within the first 100 days of a Reform government.
This change would cut taxes for 40 million British taxpayers.
It would take 2.9 million people out of income tax altogether. It would ensure that the State Pension was not taxed.
It would be worth almost £1000 to an average working couple.
It would form the centerpiece of a new bargain with British workers; a new bargain that puts them first, and ahead of welfare cheats, foreign nations, and the bloated civil service.
MY OFFER OF RESIGNATION
This isn't an aspiration, nor is it an aim. It is a promise. It is a promise I made to thousands of party members in Birmingham and millions of voters across the country live and on camera. And it is a promise I plan to keер.
If I do not deliver it, I should not remain Chancellor. Please consider this my letter of resignation.
failing to The British people are sick and tired of Chancellors and Governments deliver on their promises. In business, those who fail to deliver are sacked, not given honours. Reform, as a party of successful businesspeople, will bring that culture to Westminster. The British people deserve accountability and, with you as Prime Minister, they will get it.
Britain is broken. Britain needs Reform. And we must deliver.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Jennick.
Robert Jenrick MP

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

West Midlands Police: “We’re aware of a video circulating from the Reform UK Conference showing an incident with a protester. We haven’t received a complaint but would ask the woman to come forward. Anyone with any information should contact us on 101 quoting log number 924-050926”

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reform UK Ltd : "Counter Terror Police won’t let Farage on stage" West Midlands Police : "We can confirm that Counter Terrorism Policing have had no involvement" www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

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Chris Mason
Political editor

"Counter terror won’t let him on stage yet” a senior Reform figure says, explaining the delay in Nigel Farage’s speech at the Reform UK conference.

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Jack Fenwick
Political correspondent

West Midlands Police say the decision to delay Nigel Farage's conference speech "was made by Reform UK".

A senior Reform figure earlier told the BBC that Farage's speech was delayed because "counter terror won't let him on stage yet".

But West Midlands Police say: "We can confirm that Counter Terrorism Policing have had no involvement in the delivery of the Reform UK Party Conference 2026."

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Scenes like this did a lot of damage to Mosley and the BUF in the 1930s. Though that relied on Conservative papers reporting them.

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Former Chief Prosecutor for North-West England @nazirafzal.bsky.social will lead part of an independent review following the death of Jason Arday, Cambridge University has announced. He will examine the support available to Jason Arday during the period prior to his death. Reporting within 3 months:

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University of Cambridge launches independent review following the death of Professor Jason Arday

The University of Cambridge is launching an independent review following the death of Professor Jason Arday. It will examine the University’s decision-making, policies and organisational processes, wi...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Apparently it’s because this popped up behind Tice on a timer while he was speaking. So, now they are checking for other protests.

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Sylvia Booth @smfbooth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Reform polling which was published in The Telegraph/Times conveyed a potentially misleading view on the Council Elections. The Government U turned on the Elections, where a number of Councils had requested postponement due to forthcoming abolition. The cost to the taxpayer was £68 million.

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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🧵1/ I worked in anti-corruption for years before becoming an MP. Nigel Farage has serious questions to answer following the undercover investigation into Reform UK's fundraising practices. This is now for the police and donations watchdog to resolve, but here is what I want to know:

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Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film

Investigation broadcast by Channel 4 News shows man posing as ‘impermissible donor’ paying for polling that helped Reform

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

James Orr is a former lawyer now working as an ethics professor. It seems unfortunate he doesn’t appear to know much about obeying laws or, for that matter, ethics.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Exactly. Polling is not a neutral activity that simply records public opinion. It plays a significant role in shaping it, and political actors consciously use it for that purpose.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI

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