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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Downton Abbey with prettier frocks

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Politics is now the choice of the least worst

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For my entry on the artist see www.pastellists.com/Articles/Cun...

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Burnham so far: No 10 North Beer for football fans RC PM to appoint CoE bishops Help to buy Mansion tax Kills assisted dying "Enormity of Gaza"/ "stand with Israel" Starmerism diluted with moronic, ignorant bigotry

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good review. Moving film, let down by too much material/too many switches for those of us (esp of same age!) who couldn't remember all the previous episodes. But neat analysis of Apted's shortcomings

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Open Voltaire iconography site now up: www.ov-vf.com/open-voltair... It even includes my essay: www.ov-vf.com/open-voltair...

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Voltaire Foundation

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The difficult bit was getting it over intact (some of us thought the risk too great). They seem to have done well (so far...wait till it's back & in years to come for weaknesses to appear). But this bit should have been easy. E.g. obvious that cameras would have to be banned. And...

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's not only the obvious issues with the mansion tax itself, it's the vast multiplication of the valuation disputes that will inevitably ensue from lowering the threshold and fill the courts for years. A bonanza for surveyors and lawyers...probably a significant chunk of the revenue raised

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s been two years, you’d hope that by now, Labour would realise that they are a government, not an opposition, and their criminal justice policy needs to be about, you know, reducing crime, not merely making positional announcements that have no meaning.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A 1000 times this.

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Do they have a Prince, or just a Principle?

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The BoE probably won't raise interest rates today. But that doesn't mean it isn't criminally negligent. Inflation is the biggest threat to wealth, to aspiration and to the triggers for the growth this country so desperately needs. Instead HMG will chase fool's growth

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

De Bayser are exhibiting the new Coypel self-portrait at Fine Arts Paris later this week. Here's the article I wrote about it some months ago: www.pastellists.com/Essays/Coype...

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Dreadful result, brought about by a coalition of those who object on religious grounds (despite 1961 act) and those who want to blackmail govt into spending more on palliative care. There will never be enough money - and money doesn't solve all incurable suffering.

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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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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don't know if AI will exterminate humanity, but it is already destroying our intellectual property. Every time it comes back with hallucination masquerading as fact, that is likely to find its way into the literature. The remorseless erosion of centuries of scholarship

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Will the MPs who killed the Assisted Dying bill now actually do anything to improve palliative care?

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Will the MPs who killed the Assisted Dying bill now actually do anything to improve palliative care?

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Victor Klemperer, writing in 1933, seeing his friends starting to go to Palestine: “I cannot help myself, I sympathise with the Arabs who are in revolt there, whose land is being ‘bought’. A Red Indian fate, says Eva.”

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So Farage doesn't listen to meetings about illegal conspiracies and signs document he hasn't read or doesn't understand... otherwise ideally qualified to run the country.

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The UK Web Archive went down in October 2023. Since then @britishlibrary.bsky.social has repeatedly said it is working to restore it (see TLS letters Jun/Jul 2025). I don't know how many Chief Execs we'll get through before that happens

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

La Tour was proud of sharing his birthday with Louis XIV. He didn't mention that he also shared it with Louis VIII.

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"La Tour, c'est tout le XVIIIe siècle français." Born #otd 1704, the catalogue raisonné is freely available online www.pastellists.com/LaTour.htm You can find every known work by him, fact about him or document concerning him in the numerous fascicles

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Macron had probably never heard of Burnham when he suggested to the loan

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The key question is whether Catholic MPs should be allowed to impose their religious views on non-Catholic patients

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wasn't that the reason Starmer was ditched for the useless Burnham?

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Prince Alois has as much chance of the British throne as Sebastian Flyte's teddy bear. And for the same reason.

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Starmer had many faults. Burnham has all of them, and a good many more of his own: cowardice, inarticulacy, inattention to detail, inconsistency. Just not up to the job.

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Not only do I use my measuring tape for its original purpose, I also use it as a quicker way to convert inches to cm than getting out a calculator

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Ketty Gottardo's appointment as directrice du département des Arts Graphiques au Louvre now announced. Brava! www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

He was also an art critic and collector, and wrote the introduction to G C Williamson's standard monograph on John Russell (1898) www.pastellists.com/Collectors.p...

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It should have been a point of principle not to give her a job. Aside from the economic stupidity and immorality of the crusade she led at the Home Office, she symbolises the political failure that landed Labour in its current predicament, without which Burnham would not have had his opportunity.

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

So many politicians haven't a clue about tax. It makes you wonder if they should be allowed anywhere near tax legislation

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just go to Dunsinane and meet him there.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

wry response from Keir Starmer as he says he did scores of sessions of PMQs as premier adding: “I have answered, or at least given answers, 2,800 times”

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Nil nisi bonum de mortuis...darüber muss man schweigen

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

From www.amazon.co.uk/Crossing-Win... See www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017339...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Rousseau made an excellent joke about the choices the people of England make with their votes show how little they deserve to have it. The fact that I’m posting this on July 4th is pure coincidence.

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