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Lord Victor of the Left Bank

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Ex-craftsman, educator and designer. Left-field maverick and non-conformist. Travel addict, hiker and foodie. Lover of all-things history & nature-related.

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Tina 💙💙 @tinabell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
No surprise here…..
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
UEFA are suggesting starting a new Football Governing body to replace the corrupt FIFA. An excellent idea!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The most interesting thing about Right to Buy is it should have meant Councils had loads of money to build new Council Houses But actually they stopped Because Thatcher blocked Councils from using this money to build houses and cut their budget from Government Because of their increased incomes
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
He should have gone to prison for pressuring Brad Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes. That’s the very definition of election interference. We all heard the call.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Warner on CBS: I was embarrassed that the president went before our country and networks like yours carried this as news as opposed to a rehash of falsehoods. It is incumbent upon you and any responsible journalist to pushback on this.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Suddenly, Britain is indicating that it might put the kibosh on Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. www.reuters.com/business/med...
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UK leaning towards intervening in $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery deal
Britain is leaning towards intervening in Paramount Skydance Corp's proposed $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery , citing concerns over the impact on ​media freedom and the provision of on-...
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Lord Victor of the Left Bank @lordvictor60.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Of course politicians have failed
If you exist to promore a failed economic doctrine you are bound to fail
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TheFirstGirlySwotsToJoinBlueSky @thelastgirlyswots.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
. Nigel Farage once again throwing around loads of money on a seaside property after he was bunged £5M by a Thai-based billionaire which he didn't declare. Man of the people? Really? #trevorphillips #BBClaurak #bbcbh #toriesgone702 .
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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Dream of the Magi carved limestone c. 1120 CE attr. Gislebertus for the Saint-Lazare Cathedral Autun, France #sculpture #highrelief #dreamofthemagi #gislebertus #saintlazarecathedral #autun #france #romanesque #medieval #art #medievalart #religiousart #angel #threekings #eightpointedstar #religion
The warning dream of the Magi after their visit to Jesus. 
An angel has come to warn them not to return to Herod.
The piece is a column capital carved in limestone, dating to circa 1120-1130.
It's traditionally attributed to Gislebertus, who squeezed all three kings into a single bed. In the Middle Ages, travelers sharing a bed was a common practice for warmth and security. Still, instead of seeing this as the direct reason for the scene, think of it as a detail that captures the sleeping and lodging culture of the era.
Two of the kings are fast asleep, while the one touched by the angel has opened his eyes.
The kings are sleeping with their crowns on. The reason for this is iconographic. How do you explain to an illiterate public that these figures are kings? Without their crowns, the three kings are just three ordinary, exhausted travelers.
Crown = identity.
Notice the star in the upper right corner: it's not five-pointed, but eight-pointed. This aligns with a tradition seen in Christian art.
Depictions of the Epiphany (the Magi's visit to Jesus) in Christian art often feature eight-pointed stars.
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Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential @stuartmiller1.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Posted 3 hours ago by @paulkenton.bsky.social "One of my favorites. Beginning with splashes and poured tones, the work develops into a more refined image while maintaining its inherent randomness and energy. 🗽🎨 #art #painting #artist #artistsoninstagram #newyork" IG acct: @paulkenton Paul Kenton
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JointheDots @joiningupthedots.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Why do the UK government and scientific institutions still host their accounts on X as their main social media messaging outlet. Why do the U.K. govt have NHS and MoD contracts with Palantir. These are the very people destroying democracy. The inertia of this historical lock in culture has to end.
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Lord Victor of the Left Bank @lordvictor60.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Texas voters just sent the book banners packing. Not in California. Not in New York. In Texas. Across the state, voters went to the polls and threw out right-wing school board members who built their local political brands on book bans, anti-LGBTQ policies and Christian nationalist culture-war panic
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Lord Victor of the Left Bank @lordvictor60.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Clueless
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Lord Victor of the Left Bank @lordvictor60.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
That’s beautiful. Thanks for posting
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Lord Victor of the Left Bank @lordvictor60.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
They seem to have no inkling as to international treaties or rules of engagement or the Geneva convention….🤷
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TheFirstGirlySwotsToJoinBlueSky @thelastgirlyswots.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
. The mango Mussolini needs to understand there is no comparison between the UK recovering the Falkland Islands and his illegal war of aggression against Iran... And for the umpteenth time NATO is a mutual Defence pact! #r4today #bbcbreakfast #bbcaq #C4News #toriesgone659 .
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Lord Victor of the Left Bank @lordvictor60.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
That is impressive; ‘well fancy’ as my old dad might have said…Fabulous attention to detail the way the design seamlessly crosses the central door
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Lord Victor of the Left Bank @lordvictor60.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
That’s fabulous! Thanks for tracking this down!
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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The Abbey Church of St Peter & St Paul, Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire. “Early Perpendicular south door is in a 15th/16th Century open porch.” - Historic England. Inner etched glass doors & copper canopy - 2002. The arched etched design is by Jane McDonald. #AdoorableThursday #IronworkThursday
A wooden door, which is ajar. Metal hinges with giant scrollwork.

An inner door “with the glass etching designed by Jane McDonald, a member of the Abbey congregation, the glass doors and the copper canopy were installed in the lobby, designed by Martin Ashley Architects, in 2002.” - Church guidebook
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TheFirstGirlySwotsToJoinBlueSky @thelastgirlyswots.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
. When the Iranian Regime has no compunction about making its citizens suffer, and controls a key trade route for the world's energy needs, Trump is going to find it's a difficult enemy to defeat... #r4today #bbcbreakfast #GMB #PMQs #Newsnight #toriesgone656 . www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Here is the biggest problem Washington faces: Iran sees no need to compromise | Sina Toossi
The US has failed to bomb Iran into submission. Now, from the strait of Hormuz to nuclear concessions, Tehran senses its position strengthening, says Sina Toossi of the Center for International Policy
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Lord Victor of the Left Bank @lordvictor60.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Excellent!!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In the 70's the Government owned Energy, it built houses, it owned Public Services and it employed people. Now billionaires own it all, and they pay you too. So every year prices go up more than wages. It's not complicated why things are only getting worse. It's billionaires
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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
CNN’s Harry Enten: “It is a blowout in the net popularity ratings. It’s not even close. It’s a nearly 50 point blowout amongst the American public at large. Pope Leo XIV absolutely crushing Trump when it comes to how popular they are.”
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Before Margaret Thatcher the UK had much cheaper rail, much cheaper mail, some of the cheapest Energy and Fossil Fuel in Europe and the cheapest water in Europe. Because we owned it.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Way to go Oregon! Gov. Tina Kotek signed a sweeping immigrant justice package yesterday eight new laws covering schools, hospitals, workplaces, courts, and law enforcement. This is what state-level resistance looks like.
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Kotek signs sweeping immigrant justice package expanding school, healthcare protections in Oregon
Gov. Tina Kotek held a ceremonial bill signing Thursday morning for a package of immigrant justice laws at the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization in northeast Portland.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"Members of Congress take oaths of office in the same way that the President does. And if the President's not obeying his oath of office, the Constitution gives them the power, the obligation, & the duty to exercise their constitutional duty & obligation to impeach & remove the criminal president."
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 09/04/2026
Exactly ⬇️ Lord Peter Ricketts, former national security adviser: "The UK should 'completely forget' the idea of a special relationship with the US and can 'no longer rely' on Washington as an ally."
independent.co.uk
US is no longer a reliable ally, former national security adviser warns Starmer
Sir Keir Starmer’s relationship with Donald Trump has grown increasingly strained since the outbreak of war in the Middl
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Havoc @havoc147.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
And over on Twitter, the White House got community noted. lol
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Angie @angiespar.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Once again the orange bully brings us to the brink of terror but then offers a two week truce History has already labeled him a disgrace, and he has proven yet again there is no low he can achieve as a human being. Two weeks of "truce" now to manipulate the markets
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The Middle East is full of religious extremists who blindly revere evil men. Oops! I meant *The United States* not The Middle East.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/04/2026
🥴 "And in the same way that lots of people who voted Remain then realise that actually Brexit is the right answer." ❌ Actually Richard the public think Brexit has been a disaster and more and more want to rejoin. 62% of Brits say Brexit has been more of a failure than a success...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
War Criminal Israel killed more than 500 people in Beirut today in what is supposed to be the first day of the Ceasefire. Nuremberg V2 is desperately needed.
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Lord Victor of the Left Bank @lordvictor60.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
It is all part of their master plan; encroach on Palestinian and neighbouring land, provoke legitimate retaliation, invade, pound with bombs, drive out the citizens and then annexe it, bit by bit.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Spoiler alert: nothing trickled down.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Greta Thunberg "WTF is anyone even doing at this point, we have normalized Genocide and the eradication of an entire people." Greta is right as usual.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.
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Lord Victor of the Left Bank @lordvictor60.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Seems like a good deal to me!
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Del Wasso @banksyfella.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Moscow is now claiming that Estonia has no legal right to exist… and has activated terror cells to “defend” Russian-speaking Estonians.
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Narva breakaway operation: Russians say Estonia shouldn’t exist
YouTube video by RFU News — Strategic Geopolitics
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Lord Victor of the Left Bank @lordvictor60.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
And it’s entirely Trumps own fault
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
🚨BREAKING: Iranian media agency Tasnim reports that a US pilot may be in the custody of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after ejecting from an F-35 fighter jet hit by Iranian fire. If true, Iran just acquired a hostage. The last time Americans were held captive in Iran, it ended a presidency.
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Lord Victor of the Left Bank @lordvictor60.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Beautiful work….thank you
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Lord Victor of the Left Bank @lordvictor60.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It’s Boris Johnson!?!
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 02/04/2026
👀 leftfootforward.org/2026/04/reform-…
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Reform meltdown in Wales: Third candidate quits before Senedd election citing ‘serious concerns’
He also cited serious concerns around candidate selection as one of the reasons he decided to stand down.
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