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Stewart Martin

@sgmartin.bsky.social
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People & the built environment - their relationship in the context of societal and technological change; History & Art – principally Renaissance. LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stewart-martin-…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/02/2026
AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Can the Greens escape Labour's fatal trap? youtu.be/e7oKv3K48qM?...
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Can the Greens escape Labour's fatal trap?
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 04/02/2026
One of the most effective things you can do right now to fight Trump and ICE is to cancel your ChatGPT subscription.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 27/01/2026
“There is one clear set of culprits as to how we got to this place.” “You’re bringing the stench with you.” As Suella Braverman bemoans “Britain’s brokenness” following her defection to Reform, does she know who's really responsible?
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Education Education Education Same in the UK www.smf.co.uk/publications...
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Degrees of separation: The education divide in British politics - Social Market Foundation.
British politics since the 2016 Brexit referendum has been characterised by the emergence of a new divide, between graduates and school leavers. Education now has a stronger relationship with vote cho...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Lee Anderson has been lampooned after gleefully sharing photos of himself campaigning ahead of a by-election - in the wrong constituency www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Reform MP Lee Anderson mocked by Angela Rayner over major by-election blunder
Lee Anderson shared photos of himself campaigning for the Gorton and Denton by-election outside Stanley House Function Rooms - which is in the wrong constituency
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Social Media is Now Where Politics Actually Happens youtu.be/27CxVViSxyg?... So, you need to be on it, and engaged with it.
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Social Media is Now Where Politics Actually Happens
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Zak Bond @zakbond.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
⚠️Registrations of the most commonly-sold pick-up trucks have nearly doubled in just over a decade! 📈Our new analysis has found a major increase in the number of large, US-style pick-up trucks on UK roads over the past decade - with serious implications for pedestrian safety, particularly children.
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Number of US-style ‘battering ram’ pickup trucks on UK roads has nearly doubled in a decade
Exclusive: Campaigners say ‘menacing vehicles’ are putting children at risk owing to their large front blind zones
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The number of people living in "very deep poverty" in the UK is at the highest level in more than 30 years, a charity has warned. news.sky.com/story/number...
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Number of people in 'very deep poverty' at highest level in more than 30 years, charity warns
Very deep poverty is defined by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as earning below 40% of the median household income. According to its latest report, 6.8 million people - almost half of all of those in ...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Same in the UK, probably getting worse with the disappearance of ‘intellectual’ Tories & Reform’s glorification of pig ignorance. I never know how to articulate this without making the problem worse! (As demonstrated above.)
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 26/01/2026
But…former Tories should?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Former French General Michel Yakovleff, "Trump reminds me of that toxic abusive father who comes home" "Beats his wife and rapes his children" "And says I'm the one who brings home the money every month, I'm the reason you eat" "That's Trump's attitude"
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 07/04/2025
I mean could you get more out of touch…or immoral….. we should put more tax on those that have the least, for fear that those with the most will leave the country if we ask them to pay a fair share…?
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Stewart Martin @sgmartin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
FFS!
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
George Monibot, "We have a Chancellor and. Prime Minister who seem to have no vision at all, except this thing called growth, GDP growth" "GDP should not be used as a measure of national welfare" #BBCQT
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Oliver Lord @olord.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Cars are getting 1cm wider every two years. That may not sound much, but over time it adds up, and they're showing no signs of slowing down 😬 That's #carspreading. Our new campaign is calling on city leaders to make parking policies fairer by varying costs based on the size of a car. Why? 🧵1/8
A graphic showing how much wider cars are getting and especially in the SUV market
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Stewart Martin @sgmartin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“Salmon numbers in the river have declined by some 94% since the 1960s. ... Everyone agrees on the main cause of this catastrophe: the giant chicken farms that have spread like a rash over the river’s watershed, pumping the Wye full of chicken shit.” – G. Shrubsole: ‘The Lie of the Land’ (2024, p.5)
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Stewart Martin @sgmartin.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
"Godley went viral (in 2016) after being pictured standing outside Donald Trump's Turnberry Golf resort holding a sign stating "Trump is a C*nt." RIP Janey Godley en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janey_G...
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Stewart Martin @sgmartin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Prospects for Greenlanders of Trump's proposed Americanisation of their unspoiled land ....
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Stewart Martin @sgmartin.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
How ironic: The people of a city that arguably epitomises the 'mores' and materialism of capitalist ideology being exploited by rapacious neoliberalists. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Selling Sunset's Jason says landlords price gouging over LA fires
Real estate mogul Jason Oppenheim says renters are being asked for thousands over previous prices.
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
"Siri, what 15 second video clip serves as a metaphor for the culmination of the last half-Century of American-led, fossil fuel driven, neoliberal capitalism?" [Video by @stuartpalley.bsky.social]
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Trev @trevm12.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
#ledbydonkeys at the top of their game.
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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Latest @theguardian.com cartoon #PrinceAndrew www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Stewart Martin @sgmartin.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
👇 from The Economist (September 21st - 27th 2024)
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Stewart Martin @sgmartin.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
“One thing you don’t need to make more of, is office space; you need to find a way to make what you have better, and you need to find a way to then supplement it with all the other activities that a healthy neighbourhood should have.” - Elie Gamburg (Lead Architect, KPF):
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Stewart Martin @sgmartin.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Visionary commentary from Jools Holland (speaking in 1996) about the (then) long term future prospects for Canary Wharf when “perhaps, like the warehouses that it replaced, it will be turned into flats because people no longer need offices…” here👇 @12:15 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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BBC London - Evening News: 19/08/2024
The latest news, sport and weather from London.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 20/08/2024
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Stewart Martin @sgmartin.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
Apparently,she was the inspiration for Simon & Garfunkel’s song “Cecilia” (1970)
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Stewart Martin @sgmartin.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
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Stewart Martin @sgmartin.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
Thanks for sharing.
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Stewart Martin @sgmartin.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
I believe Chagall’s only other #stainedglass work in the UK (i.e. apart from Tudeley) is at Chichester Cathedral. Here are pictures of his work at St. Stephan’s in Mainz, Germany, where my wife and I visited earlier this year.
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Stewart Martin @sgmartin.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
Some of Marc Chagall’s fabulous stained glass windows at All Saints Church, Tudeley, Kent. When Chagall arrived for the dedication of the east window in 1967, and saw the church for the first time, he exclaimed "C'est magnifique! Je les ferai tous!" ("It's magnificent! I will do them all!").
On 19 September 1963, Sarah, the daughter of Sir Henry and Lady D'Avigdor-Goldsmid who owned nearby Somerhill House, was drowned in a sailing accident off Rye, East Sussex. 

In her memory, the couple commissioned Marc Chagall to design a stained glass window for the church; it was installed in 1967.Sarah Venetia D'Avigdor-Goldsmid  - photographed by Cecil BeatonOver the next ten years Chagall designed the remaining eleven windows in watercolour; these were made in collaboration with the glassworker Charles Marq in his workshop at Reims in northern France.
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