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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/08/2026

Spotted outside The Penthouse Nightclub in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. REUTERS/Chris Helgren.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Bro if you can’t get along with CANADA that is 100% a you problem

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Man, I love Wales. Our largest cultural event is a literary celebration of our national, minority language where we pull out a giant fucking sword for peace and enthrone poets. It's so beautifully weird and wonderfully Welsh

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Morning all. Photographer Martin Parr. “Tenby is the best. It’s like a postcard." Beach scene of the Welsh town of Tenby 2018.

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Nicola Horgan @nicolahorgan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Genius & gorgeous soul with it 💔 #SamNeill

Sam Neill tweet about how much is lost by Brexit...goodies including kerrygold butter on one side of wooden table pile high and tasty...all.that is left in brexit corner is a tin of baked beans

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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The White Horse, Merthyr

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Queer Aging BC @queeragingbc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

As we close out June Pride Month, that Pride is 24/7 - 365. We’ve spent countless lifetimes “not going anywhere”… 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️ Beautiful 2026 Pride ad Italian company @idealista that launched this 2026 TV campaign entitled “Ridiculous!” - beautifully intertwining generations o/t #2SLGBTQIA+ community!

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

New aftershave in Lidl: gives you the precise aroma of a widowed policeman investigating the murder of his daughter, drawn into a wide-ranging political conspiracy involving nuclear weapons.

Two boxes of aftershave called ‘Edge Of Darkness’

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mathewparry.bsky.social @mathewparry.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

One of the best ones of these I've seen.

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mathewparry.bsky.social @mathewparry.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Sudden nostalgia for the smell of Optrex. Memories of my childhood hay fever seasons.

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italyheaven @italyheaven.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Happy birthday to the most beautiful and most improbable city in the world. Venice was founded (according to myth) in 421 AD. 1,605 today!

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

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mathewparry.bsky.social @mathewparry.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Does anyone have an update on Peter Ackroyd? I hope he's still doing well. I'm reading another of his books atm. Delicious writing, as ever. Googling him, this is the most recent thing I could find, from 2 years ago. An author I always hoped to meet.

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Author Peter Ackroyd: ‘You eat a great deal of knowledge. You sick it up. And then you start again’

The great biographer and novelist, now 74, shows no sign of slowing. Now he’s produced a history of the English soul, and declares himself ‘eager to go on’

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

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Canaletto @gacanaletto.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Feast of San Rocco (The Doge Visiting the Church and Scuola di S. Rocco) www.wikiart.org/en/canaletto/feast-…

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

2Two women dance by the ocean on a summer's night in 1890. A wonderful scene by Winslow Homer, whose day was today.

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Canaletto @gacanaletto.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Venice, Bacino di San Marco on Ascension Day www.wikiart.org/en/canaletto/venice…

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Procession in Piazza San Marco, Venice, 1496. In front march members of Scuola of San Giovanni Evangelista, who have the BEST relic! By Gentile Bellini, whose day is today.

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mathewparry.bsky.social @mathewparry.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Delicious lunch in #Venice at a spot recommended to me by a few including @eggsbened.bsky.social

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

On the same day in the Telegraph:

The Telegraph

Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement

Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty

Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence

[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]

Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent

29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph

Money > Property > Second homes

How to avoid tax on your second home

From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net

[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]

Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer

29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools | CBC News

A list confirmed by CBC News shows titles like The Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World are among books to be pulled. The development comes after a policy from Alberta's education minister outlines new...

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Ellen Hopkins @ellenhopkins.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

If you live in Canada and believe you're immune from an Orwelian future, please be aware that the Edmonton School District just banned 200 books, including six of mine, from its school libraries.

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mathewparry.bsky.social @mathewparry.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Donna Hay’s charred, roasted broccoli and halloumi. Forgot to take an after picture, but it looked satisfyingly like the shot in the book.

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Ah Janey, your country needs you now...

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

We did it. We’ve rescued St James’s, Llangua in Monmouthshire. In this short video, our Director, Rachel Morley, shares a quick overview of this remarkable project.

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Canaletto @gacanaletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Grand Canal, Looking East from the Campo San Vio www.wikiart.org/en/canaletto/grand-…

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Eddie Mair @eddiemair.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This is the last thing the BBC needs

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mathewparry.bsky.social @mathewparry.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

@monicacesarato.bsky.social It was lovely to watch you on board my Air Canada flight from London to Vancouver a few days ago. See you in #Venice soon.

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Parsley Sage @tattudeguywa.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The most british opening to a recipe: Method 1. Put the kettle on,

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jAy Ph.D. @jayrotoole.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

One of the many reasons Nigella will always reign supreme! I am completely here for this response 😆 #DomesticGoddess

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Triumphant lilies top this exuberant display of flowers from 1670 by Jan de Heem. It's his birthday.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25
) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"

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mathewparry.bsky.social @mathewparry.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This is from a comedy sketch show, right? Wait, it’s not!?

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David Hewson @davidhewson.com · 07/04/2025

Let them eat turnips.

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