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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Read her book 'A Bad, Bad Place' in practically one night! It's a great story, deeply connected to 1970s #Glasgow. And so lovely to experience two female voices from two generations, both caring for, and trying to understand, the other in hard circumstances #TartanNoir #CrimeWriting #SidVicious

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Get it now! Sure to be warm, witty and wise - and funny! - about living with love, friends and family. Plus, the joy of having beautiful shoes...! #WomensFiction #ScottishFiction #Scotkand #Books #Reading #WomenWriters #Shoes

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Gourdo! 🎃 @posting.fan · 29/09/2026

all benefits should be memes tested

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The obvious answer: policymakers and media should be sceptical of all such reports unless there is complete disclosure and publication of the underlying calculations, so that anyone can run it and test it.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s World Rivers Day! When I started researching historic swimming in Glasgow's urban waters, UK rivers were mostly in the news due to pollution. It's still a big issue but community campaigns and interventions by people who care deeply for their local river have sprung up #WorldRiversDay 1/...

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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Finally some good news

Photo of a marmot in the rocks. The headline reads: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Marmots Are Terrorizing California Hikers and Stealing Their Shoes

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Former PM Rishi Sunak in the Sunday Times challenges the rise of ethno-nationalism in British politics, as an argument within the right about Britishness being about ancestry, DNA and ethnicity www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Grove, Ealing, London, 1978–79, by Ian Cole.

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Arlington Baths Club @arlingtonbaths.co.uk · 20/09/2026

Exciting to have lots of visitors yesterday for Doors Open Day, and looking forward to more today! Especially with out latest attraction: mini-Turkish Bath with exhibition and sounds! #DoorsOpenDay #DoD #Glasgow #HistoricPools #SportingHeritage

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Terry Street might have been Douglas Dunn's first full collection, but it's still my favourite, alongside Elegies. This poem is a terrific example of Dunn's skill, an empathetic and insightful snapshot of working-class life...

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Barber CEO: You Risk Falling Behind If You Don't Get A Haircut "Right Now" Industry Experts Foresee Future In Which Everyone Receives Multiple Haircuts Every Day Today Your Hair, Tomorrow The World: Barbers Say They Are On Track To Build A Pair Of Scissors So Big, It Could End Life As We Know It

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Looking at the record, you might think there was a brief respectful silence from comedy after 9/11, but there wasn’t. Jokes were mainly oral, because people didn’t want to go into “print” with it. So that creates an illusion of “a world in shock” when you look back.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

They don't care how it looks, are thin veiled about their desires from essentially buying out a political party and are willing to toss the country, it's institutions, democratic norms and millions of people along with it to make a few more quid.

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Josh Smith @smithjj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Excited that my first monograph, The Politics of Reading at the British Subscription Library, has been published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. The book examines the political, social and intellectual culture of late 18thC Britain through books and reading habits. brill.com/display/titl...

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The Politics of Reading at the British Subscription Library, 1789-1832

"The Politics of Reading at the British Subscription Library, 1789-1832" published on 08 Sep 2026 by Brill.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026

With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

BREAKING: Reform UK’s James Orr and Dan Jukes have ‘stepped down’ from their roles following last night’s undercover filming on Channel 4 News. Nigel Farage remains in post.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Telegraph's righteousness about people allegedly passing off other people's work as their own doesn't apply when the Telegraph does it itself

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A friend told me he had been clearing out his gran’s house. While he was there he found a knitted effigy of the man who had run off and abandoned my friend’s pregnant aunt. Into the effigy had been stuck twenty knitting needles: one for every year since the man had vanished

A knitted poppet, impaled by many many knitting needles

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Here's an oral history of maybe the most venerated front page of The Onion of all time. You'll get the 9/11 edition along with this month's paper in the mail in a couple of weeks.

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An Oral History of The Onion’s 9/11 Issue

Immediately after 9/11, humorists struggled with what many called ‘the death of irony.’ Then ‘The Onion’ returned and showed everyone the way

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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/09/2026

Experience The Onion's 9/11 issue the same way a terrified nation did 25 years ago—in print. Become a member, and get your very own copy of this historic edition. membership.theonion.com/totepromo/?…

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Lovey chat with John Cavanagh of Playback Magazine, who had lots of questions about baths and swimming in 19th century Glasgow, and an unexpected question which made me reflect more on the similarities between going swimming and doing a PhD! Sept magazine - track 33 playback.org.uk/playback-mag...

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026

This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.

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Gargarin @gargarin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And of course "9 to 5" is the best work song ,probably because it was written by someone who knew about work. #DollyParton

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Something I wrote in 2020 about the church of Dolly whttps://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20201204-how-dolly-parton-became-the-worlds-best-loved-celebrity

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How Dolly Parton became the world’s best-loved celebrity

How did Dolly Parton become one of the world’s most-loved celebrities? Dorian Lynskey explores the singer’s appeal.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was a supporter of Willa B. Farms, an animal rescue in Old Hickory, TN. I hope you will consider a donation in her memory. 💔 www.willabfarms.com/donate

Photo from the 1970s of the most radiant and wonderful Dolly Parton, smiling brilliantly and holding a tiny orange tabby kitten up to her cheek.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s the 220th anniversary of 9-year-old Mary Shelley (and her stepsister Claire Clairmont) hiding behind the sofa in the parlour where Samuel Taylor Coleridge was reciting ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’. In June, ten years later, the things she’d heard that night fed into her best-known work...

Title page: Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mrs. Shelley

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Superb read on the gorgeous Jeremy Brett and his love of a dressing gown, especially in the peerless 80s/90s Sherlock Holmes TV series ontherow.substack.com/p/sherlocks-...

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Sherlock's Dressing Gown

Jeremy Brett wore dressing gowns like no other Sherlock, but the actor also had a penchant for them in real life.

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Got a hankering for health history? We are looking for a brilliant historian to join us at Strathclyde on our *FUNDED* PhD studentship researching post-1948 unorthodox health activism in Britain. Design a project & apply by 30 October 2026! #AcademicSky #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

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Eduwis Preschool: We're Hiring

Alt: We're Hiring

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Presenter: [The argument was put that DEI advanced people not on merit] Woolley: "There are 975 Professors at Cambridge. How many do you think are black? Paddy O'Connell: "Its a fair question you're asking me. So I am going to say 30%" Woolley: "I tell you: less than half a per cent"

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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"We should be careful/Of each other, we should be kind/While there is still time." (Larkin, The Mower.)

The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.

I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:

Next morning I got up and it did not.
The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful

Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I hear Burnham is pro-burning Scotland now, shameful regional politics

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