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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 2h

'A Man with a Scythe, Mowing,' was painted by Harry Becker in Wenhaston, Suffolk around 1913. For the next 15 years, Becker observed the slow turn of the agricultural year to emerge as one of the most remarkable interpreters of the English countryside.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3h

Holborn and St Pancras byelection: Polanski is an utter failure and it's time for him to go iandunt.substack.com/p/holborn-an...

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Former Labour Deputy Leader Lord Thomas Watson, now Senior VP at Palantir UK, wrote to me defending their public contracts. Instead of trading letters, I’ve challenged him to an open, public debate. He can defend Palantir’s ethos; I’ll argue for public accountability. Will you accept, Tom?

Formal letter from Clive Lewis MP, Member of Parliament for Norwich South, to Lord Thomas Watson of Wyre Forest, Senior Vice President of Palantir Technologies UK Limited, dated 7 October 2026. In the letter, Lewis challenges Watson to a public debate regarding Palantir's role in government contracts and public institutions. Lewis rejects Watson's claim that criticisms malign software engineers, stressing that elected officials must scrutinize corporate power, democratic control, and public accountability. He proposes a debate with an impartial chair, equal time, and audience questions.

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 5h

In my view, one of the most important innovations of the modern world.

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 4h

Bread and circuses.

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 4h

You’d have to be in thrall to the narrowest, most blinkered model of economics to believe that axeing Free Thinking and Thinking Allowed made sense. The amount of goodwill programmes like this earn from the BBC’s core supporters is way out of proportion to the pennies they cost to make.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 17h

I'm firing up the ol' sister account again. Please do follow if of interest...

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Birdboy @20thcenturytype.bsky.social · 22h

Shoko Uemura, Night Herons, 1956.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 22h

Brighton Front (1964). The years 1962–64 were crucial in Mary Potter’s career. She was offered a retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, prompting her to create new work of greater scope and scale while retaining the unemphatic quality characteristic of her painting.

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 20h

Absolute legend!

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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Salcombe - Day 4...

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Safe Air Schools UK @safeairschoolsuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hampshire children are testing positive for COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 spreads primarily through respiratory particles in air ✅ Keep unwell children away from school ✅ Ventilate. Monitor CO₂ to know ventilation is good. Below 800ppm is good ✅ Use HEPA filtration where needed 1/3

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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"In this building lived and worked journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Killed 7 October 2006"

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Julie Edwards Photographer and Artist @julieedwards.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Finally Director Carol Morley joined Mark on stage to chat about her upcoming film 7 Miles Out, a coming-of-age drama adapted from her semi-autobiographical novel, which has its its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on 17 October. #mk3d @bfi @carolmorleyfilm #7MilesOut

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How can something be so frightening and yet so funny at the same time?

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You should go and see Rachel. She's very good, but also, the balls it takes to do a post like this - in a climate where comedians are encouraged to post nothing but wins, forever - merits your attendance on its own.

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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Covid wave in England is growing very fast, and the overall Covid risk level has been raised to High. As of 4 October, 1 in every 175 people were infected, up 34% on the previous week. We continue to recommend that Covid-Cautious people take full precautions in ALL indoor places. A thread 🧵

Covid wave rapidly growing in England.
Risk level now High with 1 in 175 infected.
PPE masks recommended indoors.

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I can’t help but notice the irony that World Cotton Day occurs during Black History month. The poem imagines a future in which liberty isn’t an abstract concept or political slogan but a everyday reality. Recently it feels like we are going backwards #poetry #poemoftheday #blackhistorymonth

Poem - 'Frederick Douglass' by Robert Hayden

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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Graham Davis @agendaforreform.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Great from Matt

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

UNICEF - More Than 64,000 Children Killed or Injured in Gaza Since October 2023 www.unicefusa.org/stories/more...

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More Than 64,000 Children Killed or Injured in Gaza Since October 2023

Despite a nominal ceasefire, the number of child casualties keeps climbing.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why do Epstein whistle blowers keep committing Suicide? Simon Andriesz age 57, British, exposes Howard Lutnick, now he is dead. How many now?

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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The fundamental issue with 99% of AI in education use cases is that they don’t seem to understand the very, very key point that learning things does in fact require a human being to process the information they’re trying to learn

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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

20 years ago today Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s most prominent investigative journalists, was murdered. I found no mention of the anniversary in today's Russian newspapers. #ReadingRussia

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Russian papers silent on the 20th anniversary of journalist's murder

YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg

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eastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Continuing our impromptu landscape themed week (that seems to have started by accident!), here's another great favourite of mine & (yet) another one that I covet deeply! This is "Near Great Sampford" by Harold Steggles that is undated but I suspect that it comes from c.1931/32, judging by his style

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

'The Backs of Houses, Harley Street, London' (1925) by Algernon Cecil Newton (London Museum)

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Every now and then, when people say stupid things about socialism, I have to roll out these lines from Arthur Lewis, on what socialists want.

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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just before dark.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

An astute observer of human comedy, Mabel Dwight instilled her scenes of New Yorkers riding the subway, shopping, and visiting parks and other popular entertainments such as aquariums. 'Queer Fish,' is from 1936.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW | A corrective to the obituaries… HERE LIES JEFFREY ARCHER The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...

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Here lies Jeffrey Archer

The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.

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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Stunning new housing under construction in Amsterdam! 105 apartments, with a mass timber inner structure and brick facade - a great combination. By Monadnock Architecture - a short thread 🧵

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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

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jskucha.bsky.social @jskucha.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

4 and 5 are especially lovely. Thanks for them all and the regular cheer they bring.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tuesday’s heron is up on high.

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Michael Kovrig @kovrig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thymos, as @frankfukuyama.bsky.social articulates it, is the desire for recognition of dignity. He distinguishes between recognition as an equal and recognition as superior. The essay focuses on the second kind, especially when a leader ties his own status to the status of the nation. 2/8

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Finn Hopson @finnhop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stragglers. At the end of the evening, after the sun has gone down and the rest of the murmuration has already called it a night, there's a small group of starlings that keep the party going a little further out to sea.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

'The Brothers.' (1928) A child prodigy, Joan Manning-Sanders was aged 15 when this work was painted and was the youngest artist to have shown at the RA Summer Exhibition in the late 1920s.

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Helen O’Hara @oharaviolin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tomorrow - Tuesday! Herne Bay 6pm

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Labi Siffre @labisiffre.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When money's tight, half the world takes three steps to the right; and voters with short memories is something to be concerned about. #politics #voters #economy #history

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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The UK’s overprescription epidemic - a special @thetimes.com podcast on my recent reporting of this huge, wicked problem. An absolute delight to be joined by @jkdhesi.bsky.social to give us her expert view on this "threat to patient safety". Have a listen and share: pod.link/1501716010/e...

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The UK’s overprescription epidemic

Listen to The UK’s overprescription epidemic from The Story wherever you get your podcasts!

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well, there we go again with the limits on UK trade policy imposed by the need to be nice to major partners. Reports that the UK will impose tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicles, which will please both EU and US but not the UK consumer... www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Britain expected to impose tariffs on Chinese electric cars

Ministers are ready to match the EU’s 45 per cent levy to avoid pain of Made in Europe proposals

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jacob Lawrence, Another of the social causes of the migrants' leaving was that at times they did not feel safe, or it was not the best thing to be found on the streets late at night. They were arrested on the slightest..., 1940-41 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Heaney’s re-framing of the biblical story is interesting alone, shifting focus to the people who brought the man to be healed But this was written following a stoke he suffered in 2006 & could also be read as tribute to those who supported his own recovery #poetry #poemoftheday #seamusheaneysunday

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Gleaners, 1857, realist masterpiece by Jean-François Millet, French artist, a founder of Barbizon school, born #OTD 1814. Described as an “epic hymn to labour”, which prefigured the laundresses of Degas and floorscrapers of Caillebotte. Musée d’Orsay

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cambridge sunrise…

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A day of many colours. First a splash of red, a quick stop at the Covid Memorial Wall, created by @ledbydonkeys.org with Covid Bereaved Families, to say hello to my love. Then on to the yellow of a Republic event where #ledbydonkeys cofounder Olly Knowles spoke before me

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Maya Chhabra @mayachhabra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Honest question: what is the point of having media witnesses if they're escorted out whenever something goes wrong? Isn't that what they're supposed to be witnessing?

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