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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm not sure that's necessarily the case Labour weren't in power in 2019 but the LibDems felt they suffered from a fear of a Corbyn led government. Why can't they benefit from a fear of a Conservative government cosying up to Reform?

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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Bluesky yesterday and tomorrow - why are so many people so stupid? Bluesky today - why does the government have to send an alert to people telling them not to be stupid?

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Art Deco Society UK @artdecosocuk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Do you know about any Art Deco buildings at risk? Please get in touch and fill in the form on our preservation webpage, include the full address, postcode of the building or structure. Here is the link for more information: www.artdecosociety.uk/preservation/ Thank you for your support

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 28/07/2026

For 75 years, the Refugee Convention has kept the promise of protection alive, offering a safe haven to millions of people forced to flee war, violence and persecution.

More than a legal document. A safe haven.

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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

#OnThisDay we are celebrating 100 years of caring for Coldrum Long Barrow, given to @nationaltrust.org.uk in memory of Benjamin Harrison, who lived & worked in the area. Working with Historic England we have removed the fence - please do explore the site. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/kent/c...

A view of the Neolithic tomb at Coldrum in Trottiscliffe in Kent, with the fence removed

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🗓️ After a short hiatus, C20's Building of the Month returns with new editor Mark Bessoudo. Our July entry is the exquisite Valhallabadet pool in Gothenburg, Sweden (1956), threatened with demolition. Words by Veronica Hejdelind, photography by Jonathan Hökklo. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/building-of-...

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Sophie Hayes Foundation @sophiehayesfnd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This week only, you can double your impact for survivors of exploitation – but what does this look like in reality? Swipe to see what your gift enables for the participants of our programmes. Donate today, change lives tomorrow. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... #ModernSlavery #HumanRights

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 21/05/2026

Stop and smell the roses - they're earlier than ever this year. When the rose garden at Mottisfont, Hampshire was officially donated to the National Trust on 30 June 1972, it was in peak flower. This year, we're expecting them to be at their best mid-late May. 📷Sophie Bolesworth

Red roses in a walled garden. Behind and slightly out of focus we can see more pink roses against a red brick wall. A border in front of the wall has other flowers including tall foxgloves

A view across a walled garden. Those who know might be able to identify this as Mottisfont in Hampshire. We see a low level circular pond made of brick with a fountain in the middle. A path runs centrally from an opening in the wall. Either side are borders full of shrubs and flowers. On the right are two large clipped yews, to the left is a rose bush with pink flowers.

A white bench against a brick wall in a garden. Across the wall is a large spreading climbing rose in full flower. The petals are shades of pink

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Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I’m pleased to see people realising this morning that a Lab>Reform seat change can happen because Lab>others and Con>Reform. The underlying vote flow evidence has been screaming this since autumn 2024 😎.

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 27/03/2026

More than 1 million people are now displaced in Lebanon, fleeing continued Israeli strikes and evacuation warnings. 1/3 are children. They deserve more than survival. They deserve a childhood.

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Sophie Hayes Foundation @sophiehayesfnd.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

SLAVERY IS 3X MORE PREVALENT TODAY THAN AT THE HEIGHT OF THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. Keep remembering and keep fighting. 🕯 #InternationalDayOfRemembranceOfVictimsOfSlaveryAndTheTransatlanticSlaveTrade #TransatlanticSlavetrade #ModernSlavery #HumanRights #HumanTrafficking

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

NEWS: C20 has requested a list amendment to the Grade II* Guildhall in Northampton (E. W. Godwin, 1861-4, extended 1889-92) to include an exemplary contextual modern extension by architects Stimpson Walton Bond (1991), which was recently put up for sale. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/call-to...

Northampton Guildhall Extension, Northamptonshire – Stimpson Walton Bond, 1991
Image credit: Stimpson Walton Bond

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

My husband is a software engineer and has been told his performance review will now include a measure of whether or not he has used AI extensively enough. With a target of 80% of time spent on tasks using AI. Meanwhile my world is trying to work out how to stop AI use.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

This. Legal understanding comes from the grunt work of various forms of legal composition. For legal writing is complex not linear, with different parts of a text interconnecting with other parts and other texts.

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Norvik Press @norvikpress.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The latest issue of Scandinavica is out! Read the issue on the Norvik Press website: www.scandinavica.net/issue/13916-...

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

‘Demolition Derby’ strikes again, as the 1938 Egyptian Art Deco style Crompton House has been flattened to make way for Derby's new flood defences, despite a public backlash. With a bit more imagination, could the locally listed building not have been retained and included in the scheme somehow?

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Karen Brookfield @karenbrookfield.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

What Cairo has in common with #FinsburyPark. The sad fate of urban parks: no longer free, accessible to all or places of thriving nature 🌳🌴🌷🪻

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Art Deco Society UK @artdecosocuk.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A common art for a new democratic age: How Art Deco transformed the Underground, written by Emma Bastin, our treasurer is now live! A long read, but a good one, and a celebration of 100 years of the Underground’s Art Deco design heritage and exhibition. www.artfund.org/explore/get-...

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‘A common art for a new democratic age’: How Art Deco transformed the Underground

A new exhibition at the London Transport Museum is celebrating 100 years of the Underground’s Art Deco design heritage.

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

frid-hengest, m.n: of uncertain meaning but ‘hengest’ is ‘horse’: one idea is ‘horse-horse’ (tautological); (less likely) ‘beautiful-horse’, ‘peace-horse’ or ‘war-horse’. (FRID-HENG-gest / ˈfrɪd-ˌhɛŋ-gɛst) Image: Bestiary; England, 1220-1240; @theul.bsky.social Kk.4.25, f. 59r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Medieval manuscript image of blue horse with spots.

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Sophie Hayes Foundation @sophiehayesfnd.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We are proud to support our partners at The Anti-Slavery Collective as they launch their report on fake and #FastFashion, highlighting the financial and human costs of this multi-billion dollar industry. #ModernSlavery #ForcedLabour #Fashion #Report #WorldEconomicForum #FakeFashion

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StephenB @stephenmbooth.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I think the Nobel Committee has got this covered.

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Steve Darling MP @stevedarlingmp.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Whether you are a parent with a pushchair, a wheelchair user or a visually impaired pedestrian pavement parking can be a huge issue. I've been campaigning to tackle this menace for years and so I'm delighted that the government has made a step in the right direction by giving councils new powers.

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Norvik Press @norvikpress.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

📚 Norvik Press is delighted to announce a long-awaited new publication: Sjur Gabriel and Two Friends by Amalie Skram. Read more about the book here: norvikpress.com/2025/06/27/a... Available from most booksellers or directly from Norvik Press.✨ Have you ordered your copy yet?

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 05/01/2026

Keir Starmer must come to Parliament today and make it clear that Britain stands with Denmark against Trump’s threats.

BBC headline: Danish PM tells Trump to stop “threats” against Greenland

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Norvik Press @norvikpress.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Check out Paul Binding’s review of Selma Lagerlöf's A Kaleidoscope of Stories in the Times Literary Supplement (12 Dec 2025, p. 43). A thoughtful reflection on Lagerlöf’s life and work through her stories: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Reform council planning ‘huge’ cuts in adult social care Kent County Council has estimated that 18,804 people could be impacted by the proposal Is this really what Kent voted for?

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Reform council planning ‘huge’ cuts in adult social care

Kent County Council has estimated that 18,804 people could be impacted by the proposal

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 16/12/2025

Happy birthday Jane Austen! From ballroom dances in Emma to *that* lake scene with Mr Darcy, many of the places in our care have featured in Austen adaptations, but who can name these places and where they have appeared?

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 11/12/2025

A customs union with the EU is the single biggest step the government could take to grow our economy, put money back into people's pockets and generate billions for our public services. The Prime Minister must now listen to Parliament and the public.

Customs Union Now with a photo of Lib Dem MPs

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This Government once vowed to be “the most nature-positive [we have] ever had”. Months of blaming wildlife and stripping back protections have already made a mockery of that promise. And if the rumoured cuts to BNG go ahead, it will deal yet another devastating blow to nature.

A Robin sits silhouetted on a bare branch against a muted golden sky, its beak open as if calling out. The scene is quiet and atmospheric, hinting at the fragility of nature at a moment when vital protections are under threat.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 10/12/2025

Ever seen a seal try to chase a seagull before? Well you have now!

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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

And it passed by the narrowest of margins...with Nigel Farage absent.

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 25/11/2025

🚨BREAKING🚨New figures reveal the true cost of Brexit. It's time for Labour to stop being so timid and fix the damage done by the Conservatives' botched Brexit deal. That is the best way to boost growth, put money in people's pockets and properly fund our public services.

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Thought the plan was to smash the smuggling gangs not emulate them.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

So to summarize, your image is packed with mistakes, uses an exploitative tech, fails to communicate a clear message, displays your ignorance, insults the people of that county, makes you look like environmental vandals and fails to describe your key demographic. This is why you pay a designer. 7/7

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Last night, Peers voted against Swift bricks: rejecting a simple, proven way to help one of our fastest declining birds recover. ❌ We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration. The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.

A close, detailed portrait of a Swift’s face. Its dark eyes and sleek feathers fill the frame, showing a rare close-up this special and vulnerable bird.

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 04/11/2025

Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years. Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇 🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR There are thousands more. #ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

weald, m.n: high land covered with woods, forest. (WEH-ald / ˈwɛald) #OldEnglish #WOTD

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LiberalHistoryToday @libhistorytoday.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

#OTD 1907: First women elected to borough and county councils. Women had been able to be elected to a number of public bodies since W.E. Forster's Education Act of 1870 and, following Henry Fowler's Local Government Act of 1894, to urban and rural district councils, however...🧵

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight. Use the Quick Vote option. Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

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Welcome to the National Trust 2025 voting website, hosted by independent voting service provider Civica Election Services.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 30/10/2025

Huge congrats to Rob Jetten, our D66 friends, and VVD in the Netherlands! 💛 Proof that hope, optimism and liberal values can beat the fear and division of the populist right. Let’s do the same here in the UK and wipe the smile off Farage’s face at the local elections in May.

Ed Davey wrapped in the Dutch flag, smiling.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The current line taken by some Conservatives is "We will rip up ILR, something no govt has ever done before, but citizenship is different". Not reassuring. Precedents matter. "We don't abide by rules previously agreed" is the precedent.Once that's set, reassurances on other rules carry little weight

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Hātabaðan, n: Bath (place name). (HA-ta-BA-thon / ˈhaː-ta-ˌba-θan) The city of Bath used to be called Hot Baths. Image: Book of Hours; St Omer or Théouranne, c. 1320; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 36684, f. 7v. #OldEnglish #WOTD #placenames

Medieval marginalia depicting a person bathing in a barrel-like tub, with a large bird perched above them and a dragon like creature lurking below.

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Mitildide 🧌 @mitildide.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Encore 7 Lecornu et on a le droit à un Lecornu gratuit

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 07/10/2025

This sounds plausible to me. But if it’s true, it means that the age of social media might be over soon, with only the old and wrinkled (like myself) spending any actual time there.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Another astonishing sign of incredible incompetence from the UK Conservatives. They can’t even get right the name of the country they want to represent. (Image via LBC political editor Natasha Clark)

Promo bar of chocolate saying
"When Labour negotiates,
Britian loses"

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