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Paul Quigley

@paulquigs.bsky.social
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Interested in democratic control of wealth and power. Trade-unionist. Urban-sketcher (instagram.com/paulquigs?ig). Birdlistener. Industrial/urban/landscape archaeology. Irish genealogy.

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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 7h
"Bird populations have long been considered to provide a good indication of the broad state of wildlife... This is because they occupy a wide range of habitats and respond to environmental pressures that also operate on other groups of wildlife" New data shows continued long-term decline
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Many might be dead chuffed with a 'wobble' that increases their party's vote from 10% to 33% @zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#FOTW Daily Post 9 We're in uncharted territory The air you are breathing today is different in composition to any breathed by humans before. This is because CO2 levels are higher than at any time in the last 14 Million years, and still climbing Please share + tag 2 #FateOfTheWorld
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Firefighters attend far more than fires. They respond to road traffic collisions, flooding, rescues, hazardous materials incidents, building collapses, medical emergencies and major incidents that place lives at risk." Stop the Cuts to West Midlands Fire Service www.change.org/p/stop-the-c...
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's not easy to deliver a talk on evolution that both young and old will find interesting. @juleshoward.bsky.social more than managed it at my local school last night. I know at least one young person who is more enthusiastic about their schoolwork after hearing it @profaliceroberts.bsky.social
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Celebrating 70 years as a nature reserve "Hundreds of millions of years ago, the rockface of Wren's Nest (in the English West Midlands) was located underwater all the way across the globe, south of the equator near what is now Brazil." BBC News share.google/xlPaVFLRfam2...
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Celebrating the geological importance of Wren's Nest in Dudley
Wren's Nest nature reserve is being showcased in a year of special events that shine a light on history.
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Corbyn, Rosen join fight against Islington library budget cuts share.google/Wx6irzudlDt7... @alanwy.bsky.social @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @unison.org.uk
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Corbyn, Rosen join fight against Islington library budget cuts
Islington library cuts have sparked a protest backed by Jeremy Corbyn and Michael Rosen, as campaigners oppose potential funding reductions.
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One day, we too will all be refugees looking for shelter. Let's hope we never come across anyone as self-serving, petty, and mean-spirited as the Tories sitting on Dudley Council @sutrbirmingham.bsky.social www.dudleynews.co.uk/news/2660250...
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Dudley Council leader refuses £120,000 grant for refugee and migrant charity
Dudley Council’s leaders aim to pull the plug on funding for a charity which helps migrants claim benefits and housing.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#FOTW Daily Post 2 Fossil fuels are just old sunlight - stored solar energy from deep time that we're now burning all at once. The sun already sends us 10,000x the energy we need. We're digging up the past instead of making the most of the gift above #FateOfTheWorld — please reshare + tag 2
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The London Borough of Islington are planning to cut as much as a quarter from their budget for public libraries Join us this Thursday to protest this decision @unisonmedia.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @librariesconnected.org.uk @tuc.org.uk
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Libraries and Library Workers promote and support community empowerment, wellbeing and wealth building. It’s a service to be proud of and one worth fighting for" Join the campaign to save Islington libraries @unison.org.uk @andreaegangs.bsky.social islingtonunison.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/s...
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Say NO to cuts to Islington Libraries
Alan Wylie, Islington librarian and UNISON shop steward, on why we need to fight cuts to our libraries: Islington Libraries have a long and illustrious history from James Duff Brown to our very own…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In the 25 years since 9/11, the United States has spent $8 trillion+ on wars that have taken millions of lives in the name of fighting "terror." Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds here on climate, health care, housing, and education?
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 09/09/2026
UNION WIN! London bus drivers to get air conditioning! Following negotiations between Unite, Mayor Sadiq Khan and TFL, air con will be installed in all bus driver cabs by the end of May 2027. During the heatwave cab temperatures could get as high as 40 degrees.
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Mural from @philthblake.bsky.social at the entrance to Worcester bus station
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Coventry Street, #stourbridge. Pencil and acrylic ink. #art #drawing #illustration #urbansketching #urbansketch
Shop fronts. Two people sitting outside a cafe
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Bandstand at Mary Stevens Park, #stourbridge. Pencil and acrylic ink. #art #drawing #illustration #Park #urbansketching #urbansketch
A sketch of a park bandstand. There is a bench in the foreground and oak tree in the background
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A bit of light reading it ain't. ... but important stuff from @profbillmcguire.bsky.social
A cup of black coffee and the book 'The fate of the world: a history and future of the climate crisis'
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Climate breakdown is all-pervasive and affects the solid Earth as well as the atmosphere and oceans We ignore this at our peril Read my latest piece in @theguardian.com 🙂 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Nepal and Tibet flood is a warning: melting snow and ice will bring more disasters around the world | Bill McGuire
In Alaska, the Himalayas, the Andes, Greenland, and perhaps also the Alps, deadly chain reactions are just waiting to be triggered, says climate professor Bill McGuire
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
250 million birds flew across America last night, tracked by radar. Migration season is upon us, and it’s wilder than you could imagine. Birdcast’s live migration maps and forecasts (from Cornell Lab of Ornithology) are brilliant, and you can find them here. birdcast.org/migration-to...
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Seems like Burnham's ideas about devolution, giving power back etc only apply in England?
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You don't know the half of it Nothing less than a war-footing will have any impact in relation to adapting to the all-pervasive climate mayhem that is coming And even that will barely scratch the surface @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘We’re not remotely prepared’: Labour MPs fear party has gone soft on climate crisis
Polls suggest growing skepticism around net zero, with politicians left feeling uncertain on how to proceed
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Dear government, don’t send startling, high-pitched alerts about wildfires to ordinary people's phones. Send them to the CEOs of fossil fuel companies and make them impossible to switch off until they stop the destructive plunder that's contributing to climate change.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is what decency looks like.
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Bravo to @fbunational.bsky.social for spelling this out. My Firefighter Dad fought many forest fires, inc those in the New Forest in 1976. We agreed to disagree on many things, but he saw this coming.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 23/07/2026
At least 5,764 excess deaths in France were recorded during the record-breaking heatwave last month, marking the country's deadliest heat event since 2003.
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Over 5,800 excess deaths recorded in France during the June heatwave
At least 5,764 excess deaths in France were recorded during the record-breaking heatwave last month, marking the country's deadliest heat event since 2003.
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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The red oak at Kew is a graphic reminder of how vulnerable our beloved indigenous trees are to climate change. 😭💚
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Heatwaves: why British trees are shedding branches and dying
British trees struggle to survive as temperatures get higher, and many die.
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UNISON @unison.org.uk · 07/07/2026
🚨 YOUR STRIKE BALLOT WILL BE POSTED OUT THIS WEEK Council and school workers: being worse off is not a pay rise. 🗳 Strike ballot opens 9 July Return your ballot as soon as it arrives and vote YES for strike action. The only way we win is if we all play our part unison.org.uk/LGpay
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Andrea Egan UNISON General Secretary @andreaegangs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Yesterday, the government announced spending cuts to vital public services as part of the Defence Investment Plan. This is costly and wasteful: every extra pound spent on defence is money taken away from schools and hospitals. Let’s invest in people, not more war abroad.
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Andrea Egan UNISON General Secretary @andreaegangs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Every time a politician blames migrants and refugees for problems created by our unjust economic system it fuels hatred. Every act of scapegoating adds to the cesspit of racism. It needs to stop. All our leaders must go beyond condemnation and stop emboldening the far-right.
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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 24/05/2026
The UK is likely going to see its hottest spring day on record by some margin in the next few days. The climate we built for no longer exists. The climate we’re in isn’t even well-defined, as things continue to change faster than we observe the extremes. We are underprepared.
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Lower Severn Street, Birmingham, from the window of the cafe opposite. Watercolour pencil and acrylic ink. #drawingonlocation #urbansketching #art #illustration
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The Worcester and Birmingham Canal at #Edgbaston #Birmingham. Watercolour pencil and acrylic ink. #art #illustration #urbansketching
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The government knows our marches for Palestine are made up of all faiths and none. The are suppressing our hard-fought right to protest for one reason: to hide their complicity in genocide. Israel’s occupation must end. Until then, our movement for peace isn’t going anywhere.
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
If the BBC spent half as much time worrying about the genocide as they do worry about the people protesting the genocide then we'd all be better off
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
McIntyre House, on the corner of Charlotte Street and Holland Street, Birmingham. Acrylic ink and watercolour pencil #art #illustration #inkandpencil #urbansketching
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Quick sketch of St Paul's square, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham UK #art #drawing #illustration #urbansketching
Pencil drawing of trees and buildings in Birmingham, UK
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Sketch of Vines Park, Droitwich. Watercolour pencils and posca #art #illustration #drawing #urbansketch
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Corner of Constitution Hill and Summer Lane, #Birmingham, UK #art #illustration #drawing #urbansketching #urbansketch #pencilsketch
Pencil sketch of road junction with Victorian building in the foreground
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
American B-1 bombers are landing on British soil before flying off to bomb Iran, yet Keir Starmer gaslights the nation by claiming the UK isn’t at war. These aircraft are dropping 2,000lb bombs on schools, hospitals and homes in Iran, where the death toll has already surpassed 1,300.
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Another milestone, but when are we going to get Irish speaking exercises on #duolingo? #irishlanguage #gaeilge
Duolingo graphic with the text "20 - you have reached an Irish score milestone "
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Will Rose @willrose.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Spring is Go! The @btobirds.bsky.social Green spaces app coming this spring. Have you taken a look at the starter pack? Sign up to be the first to hear about the new app for recording birds in our Green spaces. Loved designing this. www.bto.org/get-involved...
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Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham @theironroom.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
#SundayShowcase #GoAllIn2026 Today’s choice is Breaking Their Chains: Mary Macarthur and the Chainmakers' strike of 1910 by Tony Barnsley. For two months, hundreds of women chainmakers in the Black Country went on strike and won a minimum wage. Ref: L 99 BAR #LibraryofBham
A book on a table  - the front cover of the book facing on. Title at the top of the front cover is Breaking Their Chains. Beneath this is a photograph of an assembled crowd wearing clothing of the Edwardian period. Beneath this is the sub – title of the book -  Mary Macarthur and the chainmakers' strike of 1910. Author’s name below this in the bottom right  - Tony Barnsley. Behind the desk on which the book is resting are two doors on the left, a closed cupboard on the right and a tower of boxes in the far right of the photograph.
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Together Alliance @togetheralliance.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Racism and hate won’t lower the bills. If you’re sick of immigrants being scapegoated to explain away our problems, march with us. #Together
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
There is only one way we will defeat Reform: together. That’s why I’m backing the Greens in the Gorton and Denton by-election. We are a mass movement of all ages, backgrounds and faiths — united in a belief that things can, and will, change.
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
College Street, Worcester in black biro #art #illustration #drawing #blackbiro #urbansketching #urbansketch #urbansketcher #architecture #worcestershire #worcester #sketch #sketchart
A sketch of a statue with modernist shop-fronts in the background
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
As someone who has grown up in England, the union Jack is not part of any history I want to celebrate. It's the flag of Empire, of the subjugation and exploitation of half the world. @sutrbirmingham.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Birmingham man takes down flags because he says 'people feel unwelcome'
Salman Mirza says he wants to
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Many of us in England only see the raising of these flags as a way to intimate and exclude. And he's right, there is a link between the flags and the racist attacks in the UK ... they're part of a deliberately created hostile environment. The flags aren't welcome #notinmyname #standuptoracism
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Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
This might be a first for me. The alarm call of a mistle thrush. I'm told that some have said that it sounds like a machine gun or a football rattle (if anyone knows that that is anymore).
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Lisette Brodey @lisettebrodey.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Do #Birds Have Language? It Depends on How You Define It. In the cheeps, trills and tweets of birdsong, scientists find some parallels with human speech. 🐦 🐤 bit.ly/4meCpso
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Do Birds Have Language? It Depends on How You Define It.
In the cheeps, trills and tweets of birdsong, scientists find some parallels with human speech.
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