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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Farage looks like a man who tried to nonchalantly jump over a low wall to take a shortcut, caught his leg on it and almost fell over, then tried to style it out while also looking accusingly at the wall, before walking off, trying to hide a limp.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

"We recently announced that Netflix will acquire William Shakespeare, including his plays, sonnets, narrative poems and indeed also his biography and everything he ever said. This unites our leading entertainment service with William Shakespeare's iconic stories. 'All the world's a Netflix!'"

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

More hours of sunlighte kan not returne fast ynogh. Why doth it have to be 3AM at 5PM?

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

This is what they call a historic turning point “The independent forecaster Frontier Economics reckons that the impact of US tariffs will shrink UK GDP by 0.7%, while a deeper deal with the EU could instead lift GDP by 1.5%, despite US tariffs” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Donald Trump is now badly wounded. Europe can seize an advantage | Will Hutton

It’s time to fashion a new global trade order without the US

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Dr Francesca Santoro @phyllida.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Roman sarcophagi frequently display touches of humor, depending on the sculptor!😊

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Dr Francesca Santoro @phyllida.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

#ReliefWednesday Phaedra, in love w/ stepson Hippolytus, turns head away shamed. H rides off on hunt. 2) Nurse connives w/ H. 3) Eros kisses Psyche; Anteros laughs. 4) Dog scratches fleas. @lightacandle.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social @robinburcell.bsky.social 🪔 #AncientBlueSky 2-4: My 📷s. VatMus

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The policy of the US under Trump can be fairly summarised in three impulses. To be cruel to those they can be cruel. To intimidate those whom they can intimidate. And to gain leverage in respect of those they want to manipulate. Almost everything comes down to one or more of these impulses.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 02/04/2025

Intrigued by this narrative that Britain has done well here. -10% is still v significant. -We're a big exporter of cars to the US which will be subject to 25%. Terrible for UK auto industry. -Even if we get a deal we can't avoid the major economic shock to global trade overall.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 02/04/2025

-We may have a 10% Brexit 'dividend' but the cost of that dividend is the significant lost output since Brexit and trade dislocation with the EU, which the somewhat more generous US treatment does not even nearly compensate for.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/04/2025

just randomly inflicting economic hardship on different groups of Americans, as well as foreigners, for no particular reason

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/04/2025

He's just pulling these tariff numbers from the air, isn't he

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Orla K @orlaocean.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Went to see Val Kilmer in The Doors twice in the same day when it came out! Old Street Islington 1991 #c4news

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Orla K @orlaocean.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Yeah UK is currying favour prostrating ourselves in the most humiliating way before fkn Trump. Brexit driven no doubt, but I hate what Labour r doing and they need to use this miraculous opportunity of the unhinged Trump Presidency/Tariffs to rejoin SM & CU. FFS! #c4news

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AliQuack @aliquack.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I'm sure Tesla, which has collapsed because everyone hates Musk, will be turned around by the increased participation of... *checks notes*... Musk #c4news

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Orla K @orlaocean.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Why is it that (just like the MP’s in UK during the Brexit aftermath and the dud Deal) the Senators and Congressmen in US put THEIR job security so completely above “National Interest”? Yet they don’t care at ALL about the jobs lost and businesses ruined by both Brexit and Trump/Musk? #c4news

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Word of the day is ‘foxy’ (19th century), used of weather that misleads you into thinking it’s extremely warm when in reality it’s pretty chilly.

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Orla K @orlaocean.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

@channel4news.bsky.social Surely Farage can put a word in with his best buddy Trump on Britain’s behalf? After all he promised us a huge Brexit dividend… #fuckallsquared #c4news

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?

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Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

"A triumph of creative and technical artistry." Philip Barantini and Stephen Graham's latest one-take drama, #Adolescence, is streaming now on Netflix. Read our review: www.empireonline.com/tv/reviews/a...

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

All the news about the ceasefire appears to come down to the simple fact that Ukraine refused to be bullied into surrender by Trump. And from that defiance, this has followed. Slava Ukraini

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Corinne West (1908–1991), US Abstract Expressionist who used a male pseudonym 'Micheal West' due to the lack of opportunities for women #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a standing white woman facing forwards wearing a skirt and blouse next to a canvas with abstract painted image

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/03/2025

"Washington has become the court of Nero, an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a jester high on ketamine in charge of purging the civil service. This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States."

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Could not be put better.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/03/2025

French polling on Ukraine

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

BREAKING: Emmanuel Macron: 'I want to believe US will stand by our side but we have to be ready for that not to be the case We need to be able to recognise the Russian threat & better defend ourselves in order to deter such attacks The future of Europe cannot be decided in Washington or Moscow'

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 05/03/2025

There is a best and worst case for what is motivating Trump's strategy on Russia and Ukraine. I've thought about them for this piece. But in a sense it's immaterial- either way Zelensky is being set up for an impossible choice: surrender or blame. Writing from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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Trump is setting Ukraine up for an appalling choice: surrender or blame.

What's the best and worst case for the Trump Russia strategy?

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Orla K @orlaocean.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

@channel4news.bsky.social Wonder how Boris Johnson is going to spin this abandonment of Ukraine by Trump/their withdrawal of US Intelligence as a good thing? He so wanted Ukraine to be his legacy as PM, but instead he has contributed to their existential future. Bastard. #c4news

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Haven’t seen this level of consensus across the UK media about who the bad guy was since the Handforth Parish Council meeting.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

January 29, 2023. It was all there for everyone to see, who cared enough to notice.

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Basically, the living former Presidents (all four of them) hew to the view that there can only be one President in office at any given moment, and some of them particularly recoiled when their predecessors intervened. The moment, however, arguably requires precedents to be broken.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

'Daffodils' by Elizabeth Blackadder, Scottish painter and printmaker #WomensArt #March1st

Painting of a row of daffodils with yellow trumpet blooms and long green stalks on a white background

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The notion that Zelensky is at fault for what occurred today is similar to the notion that Ukraine should be blamed for starting the war. Kyiv didn't ignite the conflict. Zelensky did not ignite the Oval Office brawl. Russia did the former, and Trump/Vance bear full responsibility for the latter.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/03/2025

This was the plan all along

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Brexit has never looked quite so daft

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Let's just be clear: the reason they were gathering was NOT for a made-for-TV, Jerry Springer-style drubbing. They were gathering for private, serious talks that Trump deliberately torpedoed by forcing Zelensky to endure a 45-minute impromptu press conference & a premeditated American mugging.

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Orla K @orlaocean.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Boris Johnson is the vainglorious fool who weakened the UK by doing Putin’s bidding/ wrenching us from the EU, just for personal capital. He told Pres Zelensky that Trump wd be good for Ukraine; even y’day he urged Ukraine to sign this dud of a deal. Zelensky was ambushed today. NATO is kaput.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country. They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/02/2025

Vance blew up that meeting on purpose

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

He is not just appeasing Putin, he is aligned with him. And every single client journalist, political shill & public/online cheerleader on both sides of the Atlantic is too. Against Zelensky. Against Ukraine. Against freedom. Against the most basic tenets of decency.

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Vitor Louçã @vitoramador.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Jeanne Mammen (German 1896-1976), Before the performance 1928.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The UK has fully privatised Energy, France fully nationalised.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Underrated tweet.

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Orla K @orlaocean.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Haven’t seen a truer word than someone who posted broadly that Europe can no longer create our foreign and defence policy reliant/predicated on the outcome of approx 6k swing voters in Wisconsin every US election cycle. Time to wise up. #c4news

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