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Virginia Waterhouse

@waterhov.bsky.social
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Retired English teacher. Now an artist, painting rather dark abstracts. Still bitter about Brexit and the utter selfishness and stupidity of those who perpetrated it.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
looks like Thames Water has given a 14% pay rise to its chief executive and a 26% rise to its finance director
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 15/07/2026
Most Britons accept that climate change is real. But the number who think the threat is exaggerated has risen sharply in just five years. What's driving that change? Max Terzza examines the issue 👇
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Is no one concerned about the climate any longer?
Populism and the post-truth era of politics are undermining the fight against climate change
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/07/2026
On Monday, Joan Sebastian Guerrero was shot and killed by ICE agents in Biddeford, Maine. Reports say Guerrero was authorized to legally work in the US and not even ICE's target. @annayeo.bsky.social was on the ground Tuesday in Biddeford and spoke with locals—including one man who knew Guerrero.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 15/07/2026
A new vision for public transport in the North East We need to see a fully integrated system where different types of transport can be used on the same ticket, with them working together to make a better system for transport users northeastbylines.co.uk/region/north...
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A new vision for public transport in the North East
We need to see a fully integrated system where different types of transport can be used on the same ticket, with them working together to make a better system for transport users
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Journalist Oliver Kamm speaking at #RememberingSrebrenica "Xenophobia and racism in its various forms is ever present, and we always remember how porous is the veneer of civilisation" "And how vital it is that decent people stand together to combat it" @srebrenicauk.bsky.social
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Just had Palantir’s comms person call me an ‘anti Palantir campaigner’ The classic 2026 populist move ‘I don’t like what you’ve said. You must be a campaigner against me’ Anyway read the pieces and judge for yourself….
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I think if you’re the CEO of an extremely politically exposed firm in the public eye and you agree to take this kind of pay increase at this moment, you’re essentially demonstrating that you are not up to the job.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Described as a “rollicking read” and “your reporting on this is brilliant, it has to be said”
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Heart warming ❤️ #BookSky
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
If the action needed to prevent climate breakdown wouldn't make us better off, would we take it anyway? We did with Covid. The UK spent an estimated £310–410 billion, with no expectation of an economic return. How fortunate that the action needed to tackle climate change is different! 🧵👇 #PEBuk
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
🖼️ Barbara Winrow
A badger surrounded by lush foliage, wildflowers, and birds, butterflies, painting.
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Diane Messias @comedywriter.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Arc d'Échec #Trump
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Forbes @forbes.com · 10/04/2026
The pope called Trump’s threat to kill Iranian civilization “truly unacceptable” earlier this week.
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Pope Leo Condemns Iran War In Strongest Terms Yet: ‘God Does Not Bless Any Conflict’
The pope called Trump’s threat to kill Iranian civilization “truly unacceptable” earlier this week.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
This is important (Brickell chairs the APPG on anti-corruption)
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
A tiny firm - so small it doesn’t have to publish audited accounts - with £81k in cash made 7 donations totalling £200k to Reform UK. We now know the firm has had long-term dealings in Iran, including a €145m deal with the Iranian state-owned telecoms company. Reform have more questions to answer.
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Reform UK donor linked to sanctioned Iranian conglomerate
A churchwarden behind a £200,000 gift to Nigel Farage’s party is the director of a company cited in French intelligence memos
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Diane Messias @comedywriter.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
How is any woman able to resist him?! 💘 # BorisJohnson
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Politico: Lab MP "Anneliese Dodds tabled an amendment to the elections bill to propose a £23m spending cap for parties during election campaigns. It follows repeated warnings from campaign groups that an increase in spending limits under the last Govt has left parties at the mercy of mega-donors."
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Jim Cardillo @jimcardillo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I'm old enough to remember when this was called election interference.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Female octopuses throw rocks at males that bother them, documented in Octopus tetricus
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Reform are so flipping incompetent that they can't even get my councils name correct. It's South Tyneside council, not South Shields. How anyone can think this lot could run a bath let alone a council is beyond me. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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Reform slammed for getting name of council wrong on local election leaflets
The leaflets were due to be distributed in South Tyneside ahead of the local election, which takes place next month
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Here we fixed this for you, @wsj.com We see you trying to help JD pretend he doesn’t have to wear this war when he runs for president. Nope.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I simply cannot understand the psychology of this behaviour. I get extremely anxious taking just an old laptop into busy pubs!
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
That is objectively a very funny phrase.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Britain’s shadow workforce is paid as little as 65p an hour. Who cares for the carers? @francesryan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain's shadow workforce is paid as little as 65p an hour. Who cares for the carers? | Frances Ryan
Carer’s allowance turns 50 this year, but it’s no reflection of the labour of the millions who cook, clean and nurse behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 11/04/2026
We've had enough of the GREED, CORRUPTION and FINANCIAL ENGINEERING. "All of that has got to stop". We completely agree with @feargalsharkey.bsky.social Time for a referendum on water ownership. vist.ly/4y4v4
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Other countries should have wholesale recruited all these researchers.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This is the massive turnout for last night’s “anti regime” concert in Heroes Square, Budapest, ahead of tomorrow’s crucial Hungarian elections. Tens of thousands chanted “Russians go home”. #Orban
Aerial view of enormous crowd. Haven’t managed to source picture credit. Will post when I do
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Virginia Waterhouse @waterhov.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Add your name to People's AI Manifesto action.eko.org/a/the-people...
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is what the #ClimateCrisis looks like ht @judywebb.bsky.social
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
so they're closing the West Coast Main Line for a week, huh? the single line connecting London to four of Britain's next five biggest urban conurbations? that's mad, weird that no one's ever thought to build an alternative route, perhaps even one that runs at a high speed, too. crazy
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'" ― Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Also a great rebuttal to the "net zero is impossible" defeatists. It's very possible, and we've made huge strides there already. And there have been huge benefits to doing so along the way (cleaner air for one)
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Wythenshawe amputee, 72, using bus pass to travel from John O'Groats to Land's End for charity
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Wythenshawe amputee, 72, using bus pass to travel from John O'Groats to Land's End for charity
Barry Mackleston is attempting to get from John O Groats to Land's End using just his bus pass.
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Ajediday @ajediday.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Friday
The image is split into two sections. The top section contains text on a white background. Below the text, there is an image showing a triple cat bowl holder. It is a wooden stand holding three round bowls, each filled with brown cat kibble, placed against a wall on a light wood floor. The second section of the image shows three cats eating from the bowls. The cats' bodies overlap, with a white cat on the left, a black cat in the middle, and an orange tabby cat on the right, making it difficult for them to fit neatly into the bowl spaces.


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Bought a triple cat bowl holder so when they’re eating the mogs can line up perfe... Oh, never mind.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The Prime Minister’s plan for immigration will keep people working in key industries like care in temporary status for a decade or more, it will keep people in insecure work, make them more easily exploitable, poorer and marginalised - when did that become the policy of a Labour government?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Reform will find it harder and harder to pretend they’re not just the same tired old Tories. Wallowing around in wealth themselves but planning to scrap improvements to workers rights, torch welfare and bin off safety regulations to maximise profit. Ugly people. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/crossover-...
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Crossover: Why Reform UK Are Now Losing and the Greens Are on the Rise
The big untold story of British politics is the decline of Nigel Farage's party and the rise of a new alternative on the left
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Artemis II is a thing of beauty open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
In 2020 Justice Secretary David Lammy said “Jury trials are a fundamental part of our democratic settlement. Criminal trials without juries are a bad idea”
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late | Frances Ryan
If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. Don’t ignore that: in life’s lottery, that could easily be you, says Guardian columnist France...
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
That's home. That's us.
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Virginia Waterhouse @waterhov.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Thames Water's creditors want to set a new low for privatised water by asking Ofwat to sign off on a deal which allows them to break the rules. Ofwat are poised to agree. We can't let them. Email your MP now: weownit.org.uk/act-now/the-...
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The Thames Water creditors are closing in on a deal - urge your MP to stop them
An action to write to MPs urging them to reject the Thames Water creditors' attempts to takeover the utility, signing off on pollution till 2030
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Virginia Waterhouse @waterhov.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The Iran war is making everything more expensive for us, but some companies are cashing in. Don't think that's right? Sign the petition now demanding they are taxed more on their record profits to help us all with the cost of living. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ra...
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Raise taxes on companies profiteering from Iran war
Millions across the UK are already struggling just to get by. Bills are rising, wages aren’t keeping up, and families are being pushed to the brink. As the impacts of the Iran war ripple through the g...
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Virginia Waterhouse @waterhov.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The Iran war is making everything more expensive for us, but some companies are cashing in. Don't think that's right? Sign the petition now demanding they are taxed more on their record profits to help us all with the cost of living. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ra...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Raise taxes on companies profiteering from Iran war
Millions across the UK are already struggling just to get by. Bills are rising, wages aren’t keeping up, and families are being pushed to the brink. As the impacts of the Iran war ripple through the g...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Not great when the only people in the free world who believe and trust Vladimir Putin’s word on critical things despite all evidence to the contrary are currently running the government of the United States.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Badenoch said if she was prime minister HMS Dragon would have left a week ago. Presumably with its doors hanging off and with no weapons onboard.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
👉 On the left, Dan Hannan lamenting Bank of England's decision to put animals and plants on currency. 👉 On the right, Dan Hannan ... a month ago... demanding a return to coinage - much of which - featured er... animals... and plants.
Like hedgehogs which
Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and
mount
Their pricks at my footfall.
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National Post @nationalpost . 3h
From Churchill to hedgehogs: U.K. animals to
replace historic figures on British banknoteFifty-five years ago #OTD we sundered
ourselves from our fathers, replacing
our handsome and ancient coinage
with a decimal system
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
On the #banknote question this @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social review of @oliverbullough.bsky.social new book raises questions and my eyebrows. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
question: why, if almost half of us now use cash only a few times a year, are high-denomination banknotes being printed in
increasingly large numbers? In April 2024, the value of all the dollar bills in circulation reached an all-time high of $2.345tn, and may well be even more than that by now. The total value of dollars in the world has doubled every decade since the 1970s. Similarly, there are 1.552tn euro notes in circulation, while most other currencies - the British pound, the Japanese yen, the Swiss franc and so on - are all at something like their highest levels in history. This at a time when so many of us have pretty much stopped using cash altogether, and even the people who sell the Big Issue in our streets are equipped with card readers.
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