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Mike Gaskell @mikegaskell.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Visited Anne Frank’s house today and left wondering how far along this timeline we currently stand:

Mike Gaskell @mikegaskell.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

@iangregg.bsky.social @kenperry447.bsky.social @housingkev.bsky.social Hope everyone is well ? Should we try to do a pre-season (or early season) get together ? Given that transfers have started to move the next few weeks might be suitable, holidays permitting. I am away 13th to 31st August.

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Paul Roberts @paulhroberts.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

#mancity I'm not happy, I've had a season ticket since the Etihad move (& before then, at Maine Rd in 70s). I now live mainly in Crete, but put my ticket on exchange or transfer to family & friends. I can't probably make it to 10 (>50%) games "personally" next season - you're getting rid of me

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Cantona Collars AKA Larry @cantonacollars.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

#OTD 🗓 6th of April 1996: Keith Curle pointed to the top corner of his goal and that's exactly where Ryan Giggs put it 💥 #ManchesterDerby

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Mike Gaskell @mikegaskell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Been thinking hard about the current cultural debates in the UK (and this is possibly relevant to “The West” more generally) and have concluded that the extremes, on both sides, are not the norm or anything like the majority view. Neither of those extremes should be able to impose … 1/2

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Mike Gaskell @mikegaskell.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Must be a slow UK sports news day as @TelegraphSport uses 3 and two thirds of its pages writing about @ManUtd ‘s data revolution and Rashford humiliating the club. Ducker & Co must really hate the club. digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/2020/read…

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Mike Gaskell @mikegaskell.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

“The surprising link between Woodrow Wilson and Donald Trump” “We wrongly suppose that because they talk our language, they are an Anglo-Saxon country. As a matter of fact they are a foreign nation..” 1914 A really interesting article from @Telegraph digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/2012/re...

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

While watching that horrifying, globe-shifting exchange with Zelenkskyy, I couldn't help but think about what a deliberately staged reality-TV moment it was, with two people ganging up on one and screaming a classic, totally petulant reality-TV accusation: They hadn't been thanked enough.

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Mike Gaskell @mikegaskell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Trump’s outburst means Europe must act

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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.

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On Ukraine, Europe must step into the void | Virgin

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Mike Gaskell @mikegaskell.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1976/re... Trump’s call to Putin threatens disaster for Western security” Clear analysis by @CharlesHMoore of where Trumpery leaves us. “What an irony that it is the weakness of Trump, not his vaunted strength, which has now put the West at such risk.”

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Chartered Institute of Housing @cihhousing.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Develop your skills with the CIH Level 4 Certificate in Managing Housing Maintenance 🏠 The CIH Level 4 Certificate in Managing Housing Maintenance is designed for professionals aiming to excel in this critical area of housing Learn more and find a study centre here ⬇️ buff.ly/3CC5KMG

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Christoph Fischer Photography @beautysurroundsyou.com · 22/01/2025

A moment of utter beauty as the mountains of the Canadian Rockies catch the first rays of light and emerge out of dense fog on a crisp, fresh autumn morning. #photography #travel #bluesky #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #scape

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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Inside Housing is the leading monthly resource for housing professionals, trusted by thousands to keep them fully updated on everything in the affordable housing world. Subscribe today to get unlimited access to Inside Housing. bit.ly/4dn4Sbb

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Mike Gaskell @mikegaskell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Does anyone else find car handbooks really infuriating nowadays having a couple pages of health & safety warnings before the description of every single routine maintenance task which you might wish to perform (e.g charging the battery and inflating the tyres ?) Are they the same in all countries ?

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Mike Gaskell @mikegaskell.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Read this and weep I😪 (NB you need to be over 18 and be used to reading awful criminal case / sentencing reports) x.com/maggieoliver...

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Mike Gaskell @mikegaskell.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1929/re... This is a sobering piece on the current possibilities for a Nuclear War in Europe. Not a happy thought for 2025 but HMG must take action to protect us along with other NATO countries.

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Political Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Morten Morland on #Christmas #KeirStarmer #AngelaRayner #SantaClaus @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

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Mike Gaskell @mikegaskell.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Did your school used to have a collection in aid of the “waifs and strays” ? #1960s

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I am so sad about the government scrapping the Latin Excellence Programme mid-year. It was bringing Latin to a range of state schools (with considerable success, as I have witnessed). I am trying hard to resist the idea that it is ill-informed prejudice against the subject. tinyurl.com/5fjr9ywk

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Schools face 'significant disruption' after Latin scheme axe

The government has announced it is ending its state school Latin programme mid-year as it seeks to cut costs.

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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

“When you’re raped there is shame, and it’s not for us to have shame, it’s for them. It’s true that I hear lots of women, and men, who say you’re very brave. I say it’s not bravery, it’s a will and determination to change society” - Gisèle. What a woman.

A photograph of the heroic Gisele. A survivor and fearless champion of women.

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Mike Gaskell @mikegaskell.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1920/re... Read this and weep for ever sorting out our railway infrastructure: “reopening the humble but largely intact Northumberland Line – a victim of Beeching’s cuts in the 1960s – lays bare the catastrophic state of infrastructure construction in the UK.”

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Mike Gaskell @mikegaskell.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

“Superman’ Stokes must be saved from himself England have duty of care to wholehearted captain whose latest unnecessary injury is a blow for the Ashes campaign.” I always pay close attention to what @scyldberry writes in @telegraphnews.bsky.social

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realKyleKeegan @realkylekeegan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” a short, succinct burst of brilliance that you can finish in a day, should be required reading at all age levels at this stage.

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Mike Gaskell @mikegaskell.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

…and Assad and Putin are mates 😤 Having seen those rotting bodies in Damascus I wish that the Leaders in Europe would stop being pusillanimous and get fully and enthusiastically and financially behind Ukraine 🇺🇦 forthwith.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Etymology of the day is ‘jargon’, from the Old French ‘jargoun’, meaning the ‘chattering of birds’.

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Phronesis Travel @phronesisholidayclub.com · 30/11/2024

Mount Edith Cavell is a mountain in the Athabasca River and Astoria River valleys of Jasper National Park, and the most prominent peak entirely within Alberta. #island #photography #travel #Google #TeamPixel #Pixel8Pro #bnw #blueskytravel #arizona

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Cantona Collars AKA Larry @cantonacollars.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I was just reading about our latest financial figures. They are apocalyptically bad. We are a mid-table team who are £1b in debt. The miss management of our club by the Glazers will haunt us for years to come

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Victor da Cunha 🇵🇹🇬🇧 @victor-dacunha.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Putting together the finishing touches to our response to governments rent setting proposals. I feel moved once again to write publicly on it. It feels we are heading in the wrong direction and a fundamental review has to be the prize, not certainty over a system that’s broken.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Books. When buying books for gifts this holiday season, please don't buy from Amazon. Please shop at your local independent bookstore/bookseller. Ask for recommendations. If they don't have a particular book in stock, ask them to order it. Support creatives, local businesses, and your community.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Ukrainians are fighting and dying every day so that we can be safe and enjoy the right to say asinine, ignorant, and cowardly things on podcasts.

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Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Apse of Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna, Italy. 6th century decorations. #MosaicMonday

Apse of Sant'Apollinare in Classe. Mosaics depict a Cross in a large disk backed by the starry sky. The Hand of God decends from above. Below is a green valley with Saint Apollinaris praying, flanked by twelve white lambs. Below, between windows are four bishops of Ravenna. At the far right and left of apse are 7th century mosaics associated with Constans II's (r. 641–668) time in Italy.

Close up of apse mosaic from Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Saint Apollinaris below cross.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Blows my mind that Tacitus’ Annals only survived thanks to a single manuscript. Or rather two. The only copy of the first half was saved in a monastery in Germany and the only copy of the second half was in Monte Cassino. That’s how fine the thread that links us to our history.

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Mike Gaskell @mikegaskell.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I read this book 4/5 years ago and can thoroughly recommend it to anyone in the UK too.

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Mark LJ @marklittlejohn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Ullswater. My first love (talking photographically). Why would you need to watch YouTube or buy a “how to” book when this is your doorstep #lucky #lucky #lucky

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God @thegodshow.com · 23/11/2024

Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why You had to hide away for so long (so long) Where did we go wrong? Hey there, Mr. Blue We're so pleased to be with you Look around, see what you do Everybody smiles at you 😊 👋

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ＴｏｎｙＳｍｉｔｈＡＣＩＨ #SocialHousing @housingitguy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

UK public procurement incl for English #SocialHousing is changing next Feb,are you ready to be compliant? Read my blog & like the scouts, 'Be Prepared' here tonysmiththathousingitguy.blogspot.com/2024/10/-Pro... Join discussion here notebooklm.google.com/notebook/ee6... Feel free- LIKE & SHARE

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