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Louise, Prof/Dr

@louiselocock.bsky.social
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Mostly retired qualitative health services researcher, linguist, europhile, cat lover. Other animals welcome. Mostly in Oxford, occasionally in Aberdeen I block if you have no bio or posts She/her orcid.org/0000-0002-8109-1930

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harryg2018.bsky.social @harryg2018.bsky.social · 9h
Millions of graduates are being ripped off by sky-high student loan interest rates. It's time for Andy Burnham to fix this unfair system in the upcoming Budget so balances stop growing faster than they're paid off. Add your name if you agree: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/an...
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Tell Andy Burnham: Fix the broken student loans system in this Budget
Millions of graduates are being ripped off by sky-high interest rates, with balances growing faster than they can be paid off! Add your name to demand fairer student loan terms in the upcoming Budget.
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 9h
SNAP POLL / By 48% to 28%, Britons support Andy Burnham's proposal to change the triple lock in order to help fund part of a national care service yougov.com/en-gb/daily-... yougov.com/en-gb/daily-... yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11h
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12h
Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...
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Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment
It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 15h
Great, we have to all pass womanliness tests now to have a wee.
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 16h
Hahahaha.
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 21h
Mahmood surely doesn't have the support of the majority of her party
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 21h
"It’s just horrific. I don’t know how many animals survived... This is unforgivable." Russia struck an animal shelter in Odesa region. Volunteer Olha tried to rescue cats and dogs from the fire. Not all of the cats survived, she said. Poor animals... 📹: Olha Shylymina
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JS @jstillwell.bsky.social · 21h
My Mrs is a carer. My mother has run care homes her entire working life. Brits don’t give a fuck. The work sucks. It’s mentally, emotionally and physically hard. My Mrs is Ghanaian. She cares deeply about the elders. She just wanted to look after people but be able to live herself.
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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him
cat on a statue
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Outstandingly dishonest even by Nigel Farage's standards. Farage knows that the men arrested at Fairford would not have been released if they were still suspected to be terrorists. He's stirring up fear, hatred & resentment against both immigrants & the police. Pure malice.
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Enforced hymn-singing? Sounds like the Reformation all over again
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Poor, beautiful bird
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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Sick of work this Monday lunchtime? Or perhaps hungover from one too many on the first night of Labour Conference? If so, distract yourself with ✨ 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗠𝗥𝗣 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 ✨ Full interactive at: jack-bailey.co.uk/ward2024
Screenshot showing interactive ward level MRP estimates at the 2024 UK general election.
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All this + for parents of teens: don’t despair if they were voracious readers as kids, then stop around 13. It can come back later (as a parent of a 19yo who is, amazingly, reading again now reading is not too associated with set texts at school =work)
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Andy Burnham wants to offer access to free social care services to everyone in England, and will put his plans before voters at the next general election www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Andy Burnham proposes NHS-style social care system for England
The prime minister told the BBC that social care in England is "as unfair as American healthcare".
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I hope Arthur Fery is enjoying this opportunity at the Laver Cup to hang out with top players. Great reward for an astonishing rise through the rankings this year.
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This Annunciation by Tintoretto at the Scuola di San Rocco has to be one of the best in the world. The raw humanity of the Virgin living In a tumbledown cottage (next to a carpentry yard?) with a stool that is falling apart gets me every time
An angel appears round a crumbling brick and plaster wall to the Virgin, who is sitting in a tiny scruffy room. There is a small woven rush stool which is falling apart. The left hand side of the picture is a stack of pieces of wood
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#Caturday lie-in
My sealpoint Siamese curled up in human bed fast asleep, with his paw over his face
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How odd.. because if it was a Labour, LibDem or Green Council that closed nurseries leaving parents and children high and dry BBC would start with “Labour run South Tynside Council closes 10 nurseries..” But because it’s Reform it’s buried away 🤫🤫
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Venice used to import silk from Hormuz, and still has an area named for it, the Fondamenta dei Ormesini en.italiani.it/quei-drappi-...
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Those silk drapes that link the history of Venice to the Strait of Hormuz - italiani.it
Venice is probably the only Italian city, and not only, to have among its toponyms one that derives from the Strait of Hormuz
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 25/09/2026
Andy Burnham under pressure to signal shift on Labour’s EU ‘red lines’ ft.trib.al/bUP3Xll
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Andy Burnham under pressure to signal shift on Labour’s EU ‘red lines’
Prime minister’s team taking soundings on whether party should move UK closer to Europe
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you could take a minute to read this and, if it takes your fancy, then re-post it… I’d be so grateful. 🙏🏻 I’m doing my utmost to #SaveSquareChapelArts for the good people of Halifax & far beyond, and I need all the help you lovely lot can give me. Thank you! x www.canncomms.co.uk/post/actor-a...
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Actor and long-standing Patron, Reece Dinsdale fronts new campaign to save Halifax’s Square Chapel Arts Centre
Photo credit: Reece Dinsdale in the cinema/studio space at Square Chapel (photo by Ant Robling)Reece Dinsdale leads Square Chapel rescue mission: “It’s time to bring it home”Award-Winning Actor, Write...
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Extraordinarily beautiful
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not just us then
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These groups need to be proscribed immediately. They are a threat to public order and the rule of law.
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reform councillor: "It hasn't been a very nice situation for any of the decision-makers at all, it's been horrendous if I'm honest." Welcome to the responsibilities of elected office. And if it's been horrendous for you, what about the parents and children?
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
More evidence that the land beneath solar panels can be used productively
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Braverman should be asked if she rejects Ed Miliband being English (Jewish European parents). It would be highly racialised to say "no, Jews can't be Englieh for 5-6 generations" which is her logic. But perhaos even more racist to say "Miliband yes, Sunak no" (on visible skin colour, not ancestry)
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In general the Police really don't like being directly targeted by, well, anyone so I'm quite intrigued how this goes from here.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good luck to the Hampshire police. Requiring those present to be identifiable could be one key to deterring disorder
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If the Home Secretary doesn't wake up and stomp on this, she's going to lose the rule of law in this country as well as the next election.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If these people were not so very dangerously stupid this would be very funny indeed. Jaymey McIvor of Reform insisting people from Chingford and Woodford are claiming asylum in Ongar.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Excellent way to make opera accessible
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Learn from Brexit negotiations. National politicians with warm words do not equal the consensus view of the Brussels bubble. Officials across the EU are right now far more sceptical regarding rejoin chatter, because they do not believe the UK is anything like ready.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 24/09/2026
Swedish election winner Magdalena Andersson's message to Brits: “We would prefer you to be part of the European Union." So would we. ♥️ www.politico.eu/article/magdalena-a…
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
*Central and Eastern Europe enters the chat*
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Typical Tories: can’t fix the economic situation or boost public services so we’ll just punish poor people.
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Tories would prevent long-term jobless spending benefits on alcohol and cigarettes
The proposals would also see benefits cut for people who are able to work but have failed to hold down a job.
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hope Daniel Thomas is remanded in custody, as he poses an ongoing risk of stirring up violence. Mind you, it'd be quite entertainingly ironic if he were released and then fled the country - like some kind of refugee.
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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"My house and his house are two different houses, territories overlaid and overlapping. Our topographies don’t yet mesh; we are both creeping around each other’s edges, living together but apart." My first few weeks with a cat. nothingbutawordbag.substack.com/p/where-a-ca...
Substack preview. Art of two black cats, voids against a floral sofa. Text: Where a cat could sit - on learning to live alone together
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sounds remarkably like Oxford and the vehement reaction of certain car drivers to traffic/pollution reduction measures
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.
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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The way Conservatives talk about welfare, you’d think people on benefits are living the life of Riley, rather than living under one of the most frugal benefit systems in Europe. The Tories simply don’t believe that you can have a strong economy without penalising the most disadvantaged. #r4today
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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My lastest BMJ piece - a break from politics to the art of the consulation. How do you find out what the patient thinks/is worried about without inviting the response “Well you’re the doctor, and I was rather hoping you would tell me.” www.bmj.com/content/394/...
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Helen Salisbury: What have you found out so far?
One of the most interesting parts of a consultation is what follows in response to the question: “Do you have any specific ideas yourself as to what might be going on?” A subtle and important skill—id...
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just to make the point, I don’t think Shabana Mahmood is appeasing the far right because she thinks it’s electorally sensible. She’s doing so because she believes what they believe.
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Corporate Social Responsibility. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Blood tests find high levels of cancer-causing forever chemical in residents near factory
People living near a major chemical factory in Lancashire are told they could be at risk of serious health conditions.
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Bertha Mason @thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two tier policing. Victoria Thomas Bowen, who chucked a milkshake at Farage, was given a 13-week jail sentence, suspended for 12 months; had to pay him £150 compensation; had to complete 120 hours of unpaid work and pay £450 in court costs. It was nowhere near the level of violence of this assault.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I wonder if Evan Davis thinks Daniel Thomas / Danny Tommo has a point here?
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