Reposted by Steve BarraudHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 25/07/2025You can only pick one. Which one? 164318118 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/01/2025NEW How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year How the English state gave up on insisting the new year started on 25 March By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-lo... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/01/how-...emptycity.substack.comHow the lore of New Year defeated the law of New YearHow the English state gave up on insisting the new year started on 25 March 512853 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudOrkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Our #BookyMcBookface Mobile Library timetables for 2025 are available now on our website at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/mobile-libra... Timetables are also available in the library or from the Mobile Library. 511312 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudRobert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 29/11/2024A huge step forward in finally giving a voice to those who actually have to do the dying 5928 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudDavid Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 25/11/2024It would be far better if they moved out of that absurd, archaic building which is costing upward of a billion to make even vaguely suitable for a parliament, let it become a wonderful museum and built a new parliament, perhaps in the Midlands 1815427 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/11/2024Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts diner was immortalized in Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 song “Alice’s Restaurant,” died on Thursday — just a week before Thanksgiving, the holiday during which the story at the center of the song takes place. She was 83.nytimes.comAlice Brock, Restaurant Owner Made Famous by a Song, Dies at 83Arlo Guthrie’s antiwar staple “Alice’s Restaurant” was inspired by a Thanksgiving Day visit to her diner in western Massachusetts. 731987432 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudChris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Post-Brexit Britain’s Trump problem goes much deeper than trade tariffs. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The discussion of how the UK might respond to Trump's tariffs is already confused, and anyway misses the bigger challenge they betoken: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/post... 21432226 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Disappointing from LDs on farms. I get that they see opportunity in rural seats, but to say NO landowners, of any size, should pay inheritance tax, attack gov’t for NICs, and not even mention Brexit, duff deals, etc. is pretty poor. We need more heft on the left & they’re going Cleggy again. #BBCQT 3053374 0
Reposted by Steve Barraudyaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 06/02/2024bro the Vatican is literally a 15-minute country 674358742 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudAlex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I 100% agree! It was a feisty, persuasive, brilliant, succinct summary of everything that is wrong with the House of Lords. Bravo, @pimlicat.bsky.social. 261 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudBezoon @bezoon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Hi Matt, i had a similar idea. Great if you could share. Lots of overlap go.bsky.app/KPzKog1 6268 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudBylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 14/11/2024We’ll add this to our Liszt of terrible jokes. 671381197 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/11/2024He ran the most extreme campaign in American history, using language that no presidential candidate has ever used. Why would anyone be surprised that he wants to run an extreme presidency? 1163249432 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudKriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 07/09/2024With the latest expansion of Bluesky more and more people are looking for reliable news - here is a starter pack of #BBCjournos - journalists and freelancers who make excellent #BBC content and worth checking out go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD 71475201 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Looking forward to learning how appointing an accused child-sex-trafficker as AG and a suspected Russian asset as DNI will lower the price of eggs 15795281973 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudNaomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 14/11/2024"I am genuinely embarrassed by our second chamber. Too old, too rich, too Southern, too bloated in number, too male, too white, and far too many there through patronage. And don't start me on the Lords Spiritual." 🎧👇 1110720 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Sen. Susan Collins is “shocked” by the pick of Matt Gaetz as AG. Lucy is asking us to try and kick the football again. 1131984149 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudRos Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 14/11/2024If Rodin designed a sports centre. Rue Neuve St-Pierre. (/end) 091 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudAndy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Here’s an idea from the old days of Twitter. When you see a post you like, repost it as well as (or instead of) “liking” it. 23223 0
Reposted by Steve BarraudMichael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 07/11/2024New series of Wolf Hall starts this Sunday. 716227 0
