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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 12h

What I'm hearing from Holborn and St Pancras is that it’s a stupid name for a constituency that should be called Camden Town and Bloomsbury.

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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 13h

Apropos of nothing, but ethnic Russians constitute around 25% of Latvia's population.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 15h

UPDATE UK police said Thursday they had arrested two Latvians inside a military base in southeast England housing US and NATO intelligence hubs after the perimeter fence was breached. u.afp.com/SC3A

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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 16h

How did he translate everything, with Google? Teddy Young: Royal Navy sailor in court accused of preparing to spy for Russia - BBC News share.google/9zSN7zJWBQ6T...

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 23h

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Once again I have to ask, how something like this even gets to this stage!?

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I for one am reassured that an investigation into Reform UK, carried out by Reform UK, has found that Reform UK did nothing wrong www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jan Rüger’s erudite study makes a compelling case for seeing the bond between Britain and Germany as a driving force in European history. Britain and Germany: Europe’s original special relationship | Brendan Simms engelsbergideas.com/reviews/brit...

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Britain and Germany: Europe's original special relationship

Jan Rüger’s erudite study makes a compelling case for seeing the bond between Britain and Germany as a driving force in European history.

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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The new Renoir show at the National Gallery is really something Self-knowingly idealistic, ethereal, capturing ephemeral everyday moments for eternity Sure, when he was off, he was off, but the highs are so high as to be otherworldly As for Bal du moulin de la Galette, I could gaze at it forever

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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ironically, if everyone takes an audio tour they might actually have time to see the thing.

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Polish painting looted by Nazi Germany during World War Two, and which once hung in an SS officers’ club, has been returned by its owner, who donated it to the National Museum in Warsaw.

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Poland recovers looted painting that once hung in SS officers' club in occupied Warsaw

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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This seems like a completely mad thing for the BBC to do. Children generally do not get into history because of the worthy, noble, or inspiring stories. Hearing about blood & guts really does not set them up for problems in later life.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No she’s not.

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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

By my old undergrad dissertation advisor, so I just have to give this a read.

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Several ninth-century Arabic silver coins have been found in northern Poland. Experts believe they may have belonged to merchants travelling to and from the Viking Age port of Truso, which was situated nearby.

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Ninth-century Arabic silver coins found near Viking trading centre in Poland

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This some advanced tankie "thought". Russia has a UNSC seat & world's largest amounts of land, gas, oil and NUKES. Russia also has no agency over our own actions and so cannot be held accountable and therefore must be excused and appeased.

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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Long shot, but I don't suppose anyone on here knows about makers' marks/hallmarks who can help identify this for me, please?

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Right, I'm off to bed.

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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A lot already said about Neflix's version of The Doll (Lalka) not being faithful to the original novel, but the English subtitles aren't even faithful to the Polish dialogue. Jaja is most certainly not 'stones'.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

With Bayeux Tapestry mania mounting, I thought it worth pointing out that my book about the Norman Conquest begins with a description of the famous embroidery and explains why it's uniquely important. You can read it for free here: shorturl.at/vjjay

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I knew what Hamas' views on the roles women in society really are, bit I didn't know that they gave one as a prize to golloway...

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A Cuban dance instructor living in Russia coordinated arson attacks in Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and Lithuania on behalf of Russian intelligence, reports @deutschewelle.dw.com. He recruited so-called "disposable agents" among Latin American migrants.

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Cuban dance teacher ordered EU sabotage attacks from Russia

In 2024, a Cuban man coordinated a series of arson attacks in four EU countries while operating on behalf of Russian intelligence services. DW Investigations tracked him back to a Latin dance studio i...

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 10/09/2026

VIDEO: An eight-metre embroidered "Beer Tapestry" tracing the history of brewing through the ages has been unveiled at The Museum Tavern pub opposite the British Museum, as London welcomes visitors to the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Of all the Bayeux Tapestry parodies, this is surely the greatest.

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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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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Oddly missing from the BBC homepage at the moment.

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Damning silence from Labour on their Napoleon III exhumation policy

Tom Harwood tweets:

BREAK: Nigel Farage says under a Reform government the body of Napoleon III could be returned from England to France.
The last French emperor's final resting place is in The Imperial Crypt at St Michael's Abbey in Farnborough.
He died in exile in England in 1873 following the fall of the Second Empire. His body was never returned to France because they didn't want it, and due to his wife's wishes. She was later buried alongside him.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What an image of 'managed decline' - good luck, VisitBritain

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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

How will this not be career ending for all involved?

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The idea of Farage trapped in an eternal cycle of resigning & fighting by-elections against a bin like some shit Sisyphus is immensely appealing

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today's BBC radio drama about the Bayeux Tapestry sounds arrestingly original.

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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Entente Amicale? Not for John. Never...

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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This will be news to the Kremlin which has made a lot out of how the UK is Russia's biggest enemy & poses an existential threat to its very existence.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

OTD in 1939 Adolf Hitler began his special military operation to protect ethnic Germans from persecution by Poland. Imagine such a bullshit excuse today.

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The Seldom Seen Kid @seldom-seen-kid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

They're all dead, Dave.

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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

82 litres of beer & 82kg of meat seems an entirely reasonable annual diet to me.

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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

On the one hand, a lot of Poland's promotional campaigns always feel as though they are talking to other Poles & it's often Poles themsleves who talk about them. On the other, international coverage often appears to be selective, misrepresentative, & designed to address its own specific interests.

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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I know, I know it's really about sending a contemporary message, but the peasants weren't really the ones revolting during the Peasants' Revolt anyway. Marketing meltdown: why has Andrew Garfield’s new film suddenly added Robin Hood? www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...

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Marketing meltdown: why has Andrew Garfield’s new film suddenly added Robin Hood?

Paul Greengrass drama The Uprising was supposed to be a historical epic about the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 – but a strange new campaign has inserted a surprising figure

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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Because of course. Serbia is still on the path to EU membership. Has Djokovic said anything yet?

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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Good riddance to genocidal rubbish.

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Wanda Traczyk-Stawska, a veteran of the Warsaw Uprising against Nazi-German occupation during WWII, has died at the age of 99. In her later years, Traczyk-Stawska became a vocal advocate for the rights of women and disabled people.

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Warsaw Uprising veteran and activist Wanda Traczyk-Stawska dies aged 99

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