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JanetM Sage Observer

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Pro Europe Remainer. East Anglia. Support International cooperation and laws, UN. Also SME, Legal. New Zealand Political Science and History Grad, Brazilian culture and politics. Wildlife Gardens, Art and Books. Retired Librarian and Carer.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
As I noted a while back, this is a new feature on the blog, aiming not to make me rich (ha!) but just to defray some of the cost of running the shop. The articles retail for £4, this is the first one. @alanallport.bsky.social @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social @rgpoulussen.bsky.social
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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
In a few weeks, I'll be starting a new role as Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at Cambridge, based at the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social. As part of @camglamresearch.bsky.social, my project will be about 'Re-Excavating the Cambridge School of Geology, 1850–1914'.
Robert B. Farren's portrait of the elderly geologist Adam Sedgwick, cradling and gesturing to a globe.
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We were all up early as the prof wanted to take #sophiefromromania for a walk before heading off on a business trip for a week - we’re both going to miss her
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 15/09/2025
Brexit wasn’t abstract, writes The Bear. It stripped out the NHS’s stabilisers – staff, medicines, safety nets – and left us running on fumes. The cost isn’t just GDP points. It’s lives.
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From promises to collapse: The measurable damage Brexit caused the NHS
Staffing gaps, medicine shortages and avoidable harm – the everyday reality of a broken Brexit promise
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Something people aren't talking about enough is how often Charlie Kirk invoked the Fifth Amendment when testifying before Congress about the domestic terrorists he provided buses to get to Washington on January 6, 2021.
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JanetM Sage Observer @janetmsageobserver.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
It would really help to explain to any recreational drug users how their "fun" contributes directly to crime. Local burglary, ram raids, house takeovers, weed factories, sickness beneficiaries distributing. Its really an exploitation
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Letter in The Observer today. “I am a refugee. The UK made me a surgeon.”
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Wendy Orent @wendyorent.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Yes, every word in this is true. I saw much of this as well In the 60s and 70s. I remember being shocked by Manhattan and appalled that no one else I knew seemed creeped out bi it. Men freaked me out back then: you couldn’t walk down the street without harassment. It was a terrible time.
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Suffolk Lavender Loft 🇪🇺♥️🎨🐾🐾🧵 @thelavenderloft.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
We had a lovely time, raising money for @cancerresearchuk.org this afternoon. Many generations enjoying textiles and conviviality. 💖
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Silk embroidered fox created by Helen Richman, professional hand embroiderer, based in Somerset, UK #womensart
Embroidery of a sitting fox facing forwards with head looking up tobthe left
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
After this weekend, I'm leaving X. Follow my work stuff on Instagram @nicolakellywrites. I'll mainly be posting there. www.instagram.com/nicolakellyw...
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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
What was going to take place on Saturday 18th October 2025 has now been postponed! See pic (copied over from another platform). Have to say I’m disappointed. Right now we need to stand with Europe more than ever!🤔🥺🇬🇧🇪🇺🤝
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Wishing, threatening, or doing harm to people who are doling no harm to anyone except making them uncomfortable by their mere existence. Attitudes like this are always with us, unfortunately. The difference today is that those holding them are being encouraged to express, even act on, these views.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
My, my, my. How the tone has changed.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 14/09/2025
The Brexit ref of 2016 accelerated a trend in which age & education, rather than class, are best predictors of voting behaviour. Study, shows how this is splitting left-leaning young graduates from right-leaning pensioners Voters see parties clustered in two ideological blocs; the left & the right
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
“we will not stand for assaults on police officers doing their job or for people feeling intimidated on our streets because of their background or the colour of their skin” Keir Starmer news.sky.com/story/politi...
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Politics latest: 'We will not stand for assaults or intimidation' - Starmer speaks out following mass-protest
Sir Keir Starmer has condemned assaults on police at yesterday's 'Unite the Kingdom' march, while recognising the "right to peaceful protest." He has also said people should not feel "intimidated beca...
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
The myth that racism is primarily driven by economic conditions must die, especially on the left. It is a misdiagnosis and a kind of excuse
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
The far-right mob in London paled into insignificance compared to our Remain marches. Especially the one in 2018. Between 700,000 and a million people turned out. The Labour front bench stayed away. They also ignored its message. But the voters who took part in it haven't disappeared. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 14/09/2025
"I don't think everyone realised quite how much democratic systems and electoral systems were targets..... We [Electoral Commission] now have to be really up to speed with the threats," Elections watchdog admits 'painful lessons learned' after Chinese hack - Via BBC News
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Elections watchdog admits 'painful lessons learned' after Chinese hack
In the first interview about the hack, the commission's new boss admits that huge mistakes were made, but says the organisation is now secure.
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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Can Toyota make up for the time they lost while ignoring the EV market? They were ahead of the curve with hybrids, then got lost for a decade w/o a competitive EV offering, while making news about forthcoming solid-state battery tech. We may find out next year if they’re back in the game.
electrek.co
Toyota's new flagship EV is, honestly, pretty impressive
The bZ7 is about the size of a Tesla Model S and way nicer than you’d expect. Toyota’s new flagship...
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JanetM Sage Observer @janetmsageobserver.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Depends on how the debate is marked. Agree Oxford Union style is awful, probably training for all those vicars and politicians 🙄 But school debates should always have marks for content and facts, usually from the second speaker, and that is good training for lawyers. Using Jaycee rules (USA).
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Everyone saying PM shd condemn far right violence in London yday (Shabana Mahmood already has)/ leave X is right. But same for Kemi Badenoch. No Conservative Party can condone thugs attacking police horses & calls for violent uprising. Even Farage has gone up against Yaxley-Lennon ffs.
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JanetM Sage Observer @janetmsageobserver.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
That is criminal damage and racism and needs to be reported ASAP.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
If you are too scared to say this @labouruk.bsky.social then you’re not fit to govern If you are too scared to act you are not fit to govern If you fear the BBC & Sky etc will promote these thugs’ angle then you can get back some semblence of impartiality in the BBC but that means you have to ACT
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I’m not surprised at the large turn out yesterday. Our media ecosystem - as @carolecadwalla.bsky.social has often pointed — has completely collapsed, and people are motivated by outright inflammatory lies on social media. It’s a crisis of information and the dark side of the digital revolution
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tadaaa.bsky.social @tadaaa.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Interesting that the US "centrist" take on Kirk, which boils down to "he did his politics the right way" aka a polite white supremacist, I mean we don't want to frighten the children do we "why won't someone think of the children" has infected the UK mainstream discourse on him [sigh]
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Only just got round to reading yesterday's @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social masterpiece. Again, the sense of dislocation, of insecurity, which is surely what is behind so many protests on so many subjects. A world transformed by technology into facelessness. www.ft.com/content/7068...
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The crumbling seaside palaces at the centre of Britain’s asylum crisis
How one hotelier built an empire from beloved community assets — and a government struggling to cope with a surge in migration
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Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I’m a broken record on this, but — there are so many examples of famous people radicalised by midlife career/personal knockbacks. Ant Middleton was on yday’s march. He got done for tax offences and lost his TV work. Now he’s mates with Tommy Robinson.
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
1/ Alexander Vindman warned of Musk's links to Putin and his collaboration in Putin's war against democracy. So free speech absolutist Musk wanted him silenced. Fascists demand free speech until they gain the power to suppress it.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Epstein: Vicky Ward in her articles + podcasts (Chasing Ghislaine) revealed Epstein’s links to arms dealer Sir Douglas Leese & his son Nick. This Times article describes how they eased him into establishment circles by members of Oxford’s infamous Bullingdon Club, including his eldest son, Nick.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/09/2025
Elon Musk is in the middle of approvals for a new $1 TRILLION pay deal from Tesla, one condition of which is him involving himself in politics less. Yesterday he called for the overthrow of the UK government at a far-right rally, just days before that government hosts a Trump state visit.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
At least 15 people including journalists and teachers have been fired or suspended for criticising Charlie Kirk online, Reuters reports. Free speech for us, not for you. #NorthKoreaShit
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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Mind boggling. Now is a golden opportunity for the PM to condemn the violence, call for calm, and try to bring the country together. It's a "there is more that unites us" moment. The silence is a vacuum being filled by the far right.
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JanetM Sage Observer @janetmsageobserver.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Certainly not "Freedom of Speech" on any measure for anyone. Freedom of Speech that does not denigrate other people is hard in practice for rabble rousers. Even "Christian v Heathen" that Sunday Schools tried to instill. Do as I say, ignore what I do? Old as time
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JanetM Sage Observer @janetmsageobserver.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Never understood East Anglia Trucking firm owners or Farmers wishing to lose their European business like that. Even big firms like Turners who put money into Harwich expecting container to warehouse Trade instead. Maybe too young to remember carnets, visas and all that before 1990. EU rules remain.
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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Prime example of exceptionalism which is hampering a realistic examination of Brexit. It seems the UK haulage industry has been dependent on illegal working in our jurisdiction to keep going. With EES and Etias, that will end. 🧵 H/t @orynski.eu
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JanetM Sage Observer @janetmsageobserver.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Don't fall for this kind of comment on Starmer and government. We have stable and established ministers in the main getting on with overhauling the damage underfunded Departments have sustained. Major international political storms addressed calmly. Ignore paid soap opera politics by Trump & Musk🙄
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JanetM Sage Observer @janetmsageobserver.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Very cheering ! Much as we love the tunes of our national songs, the words are so firmly 19th Century they are hard to sing now. Even Jerusalem felt hollow this year... Positive was all the new composers were women, as was the wonderful conductor Elim Chan who knows oppression. 🎺 Trumpets a go go!
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Suffolk Lavender Loft 🇪🇺♥️🎨🐾🐾🧵 @thelavenderloft.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I'm running a textiles collage workshop today, in aid of @cancerresearchuk.org. #Suffolk
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JanetM Sage Observer @janetmsageobserver.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Love Collage! Those scenes are very Suffolk 😊
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/09/2025
Immigration law firm making £1.7m in legal aid loses contract over standards
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Immigration law firm making £1.7m in legal aid loses contract over standards
Thousands of asylum seekers left without lawyers after firm took on thousands of cases with just five solicitors An immigration law firm that signed up thousands of asylum seekers and generated income of £1.7m in legal aid in the last year, despite only employing five solicitors to represent them, has had its government contract terminated after concerns about its performance, the Guardian has learned. The decision leaves many asylum seekers struggling to find new legal representatives at a time when the government is increasing the number of cases it refuses. Continue reading...
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 13/09/2025
Not to downplay the remaining work, real progress has already been made. To suggest otherwise is to ignore the size and momentum of the fastest energy transition in history. #auspol #energy #greenenergy
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Climate action can feel slow – but the fastest energy leap in history has begun
It’s increasingly common to hear from experts and the general public that the global shift away from fossil fuels is glacially slow, or even non-existent.
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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 12/09/2025
Check your backups, go remove the batteries from stored electronics, go contact that someone you’ve been thinking of lately and go chase up that weird thing your body has been doing lately.
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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Guns or children, America. This shouldn't be a difficult call...
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PJ @septemberrising.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Well colour me shocked, they behave like his election agent. www.thenational.scot/news/2546215...
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'Do better': Fury after BBC found out over Reform coverage
CONCERNS have been raised over Nigel Farage being "thrust into living rooms" without scrutiny after a study revealed the BBC featured…
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Landscaped by owner William Aislabie in the 18th century Fall Wood, (Hackfall), lies north-east of the village of Grewelthorpe. The wood is a Grade I listed Historic Garden containing several follies one of which is The Ruin at Hackfall. It was originally built
The folly, the Ruin at Hackfall was originally built  as a banqueting house.
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