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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

CARTOON OF THE DAY…

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yep. I am really trying to market my book myself as, wonderful as my publishers are, the post-publication bit is predominantly up to the author. My book isn't therefore on the shelves of most Waterstones or even most independent bookshops.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 26/08/2026

The time for Proportional Representation is now. 🚨

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's absurd. Everywhere you look, grotesque waste - of resources, investment, incentives and - in the end - an entire section of society it took decades to build with your money. (2/2)

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

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Peter Stone @londonstone.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the abolition of the Greater London Council. To mark the occasion comes a new book 'London's Ours! Images from the Greater London Council 1981-1985'. You can read my review here www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/londons-ours...

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LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🚨🚨Hazel Atashroo’s excellent book on the visual culture of the 1980s GLC is now out. Get your copy here: www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk/books/london...

A copy of
LONDON'S OURS! IMAGES FROM THE GREATER LONDON COUNCIL
1981-1986 by HAZEL ATASHROO

The cover image is of a crowd outside County Hall at the Jobs for a Change festival in June 1984.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

All I can do to help in the present existential crisis of Britain's universities is reiterate my evidence to the Commons Education Committee. There isn't anything else.

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"First Past the Post has now become a chaos multiplier."

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

On 16 June 1954, the 50th anniversary of #Bloomsday, a group of writers set out from architect Michael Scott’s home in Sandycove to retrace the steps of Leopold Bloom from Ulysses by James Joyce.

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The NLI’s beautiful Reading Room which featured in Ulysses will be open to the public to visit between 6pm–8pm on June 16. All are welcome to attend the festivities throughout the day, and we hope to see you at the National Library of Ireland for #Bloomsday! 👒 Learn more: ow.ly/jE2n50Z6yc8

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UCL Policy Lab @uclpolicylab.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

New polling delivered by UCL Policy Lab and More in Common shows a close race between Labour and Reform UK in this week's by-election. Find out more ⤵️ www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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New polling from the UCL Policy Lab shows that Labour lead Reform by 5 points in Makerfield

New polling delivered by UCL Policy Lab and More in Common shows a close race between Labour and Reform UK in this week's by-election.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 15/06/2026

Quote of the day - from Jean-Claude Juncker www.ft.com/content/48a4...

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It wouldn't be a true celebration of W. B. Yeats's birthday without listening to the great man himself recite his classic poem, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree": I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLlc...

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W.B. Yeats reads The Lake Isle of Innisfree

YouTube video by awetblackbough

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

HAPPENING NOW: MS NOW is live-streaming the removal of Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center we are VERY here for this level of petty

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

NEW from me today: ICYMI it earlier, I've written for @arguablymag.bsky.social about the quiet crisis destroying almost everything important about universities, and why no-one's talking about it. Take a look: www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...

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The quiet collapse of British universities

One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away

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GoBlue @blu2b4u.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

English historian, Simon Schama described Hegseth’s remarks as “special kind of loathsomeness: a blend of historical deafness, grotesque stupidity and comically ludicrous self-importance”.| The Guardian

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Pete Hegseth’s D-day speech on immigration condemned as ‘grotesque stupidity’

Historians and campaigners accuse US defence secretary of desecrating memory of soldiers who fell in Normandy

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The responsible thing would be for the government to pause work on the Lower Thames Crossing, complete the final business case, and consider whether public money could be better spent (alternatives to a ‘smart’ motorway do exist).

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whitneybrown9.bsky.social @whitneybrown9.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Poetry in response to evil !

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The people of colour who Hegseth has slagged off on D-Day actually helped win the World War. Twice. #No2Racism

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

That’s incredible. (This refers to a short film I made a lifetime ago) youtu.be/p856CfM64w8?...

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Pitch 'n' Putt with Joyce 'n' Beckett

YouTube video by John Hyland

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 14/05/2026

resign by nine if you want the top line/ the later the hour, your coverage will sour

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Mile End Institute @mileendinstitute.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Our very own Tom Chidwick is mentioned in today’s @thetimes.com Diary! While Heath denied the ‘monstrous allegations made about a lack of courtesy shown in my own home’, his friends conceded that he hadn’t accompanied Thatcher to the door so they wouldn’t be photographed together …

The big meeting between Sir Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting turned into more of a brush-past when the health secretary left after 16 minutes. It reminded the historian Tom Chidwick of a similar occasion when the vanquished Conservative leader Ted Heath was visited at his home by his successor, Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher emerged after 15 minutes but the meeting had lasted only five. Heath refused to impart any wisdom or join the shadow cabinet and Thatcher spent ten minutes chatting with the housekeeper to make it look less like a disaster. Heath’s campaign aide Tim Kitson later revealed that Heath had actually piled books on the chairs in his study so as to prevent his visitor from sitting down.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

New PM will have to think about university policy in England and knock-on effects, especially in Wales. *What happens with insolvencies? *Should there be a planning system? *Do there have to be numbers caps? *The OfS had failed and is discredited, what comes next? (1/2)

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Michael Ward @michael954.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My copy arrived yesterday - an excellent publication! #GLCworkingforLondon

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This is so great to watch! 😅 Emmanuel Macron sings a French chanson accompanied on the drums by the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan! This is what's possible at international summits when there are no stupid MAGA clowns around to drive people to despair. 🇫🇷 🇦🇲 🕊

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I think we’re at the stage where we need two separate governments. One will be there to deal exclusively with allegations relating to Peter Mandelson. This will be the main British government. And then there’s a secondary administration that does all those little things like running the country.

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Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP @drrosena.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Special thanks to Leonie Cooper AM, Bassam Mahfouz AM and Elly Baker AM for joining us on a brilliant canvass in Balham this afternoon. There was a great turnout in support of our fantastic candidates in Balham, South Balham, and Trinity.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Attended this partly to see what kind of people attend this kind of thing. As any political scientist could’ve predicted, it was largely home & car owners & the middle aged who mostly seemed to object to local change. The 2 reform cands were absent while 1 of the Greens was hiking in the Himalayas.

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Michael Ward @michael954.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Best wishes and good luck, Preston Labour

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Alan Johnson, best PM we never had, featured in tonight’s Commons Confidental newsletter for @Independent subscribers

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

An organisation’s culture is set by its leader, Starmer dislikes making an argument for anything (because he’s bad at it) and that attitude spreads all the way down the party.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14/04/2026

#OtD 14 Apr 1919 in Limerick, Ireland, a general strike was declared in protest against the declaration by the British military of a ‘Special Militarised Zone' in the area. The general strike saw the creation of the short-lived Limerick Soviet stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8537...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The FT careers advice section is getting pretty wide ranging these days www.ft.com/content/fdab...

"Brazenness is a real key attribute to good shoplifters," said Adam Ratcliffe, operations

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I've said it before and I'll say it again: trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

“We want to live in a free, European Democracy. After 16 years of sorrow, corruption and Russian influence. We have had enough” The organisers & singers at the massive Budapest concert told me why Orban has to go.

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