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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
daily.jstor.org/ancient-rome...
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Ancient Rome: A City of Immigrants - JSTOR Daily
A neighborhood beyond the Tiber became home to generations of Jewish and Syrian migrants who reshaped the imperial capital.
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Grenfell cladding firm Arconic paid shareholders £23m more in compensation than to fire victims
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
And men who are abusive psychologically, physically and financially to women & their children?
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In the summer of 1867, Claude Monet stayed with his aunt at Sainte-Adresse in northern France. The expansion of the country’s rail network turned this small, rural fishing village into a seaside resort for tourists, here Monet hinted at this transformation.
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Western Lens @planzing.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Sky Haiku, Dawn…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/08/2026
Cleveland police failed to arrest man who later killed two-year-old girl
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Cleveland police failed to arrest man who later killed two-year-old girl
Paedophile breached non-molestation order before killing and sexually assaulting girlfriend’s daughter Cleveland police failed to arrest a paedophile for breaching a non-molestation order, 18 months before he murdered and sexually assaulted his girlfriend’s two-year-old daughter, Teesside crown court has heard. Isabelle Welsh died on 14 September 2025 after what police described as a “campaign of violence” against her. The two-year-old collapsed at her home in Teesside after she suffered weeks of abuse which left her with a body covered in bruises and 21 broken bones. Continue reading...
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
22nd July 2026 06.06
Overnight cloud breaking up
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Ruth Ellis, last woman to be hanged in UK, granted posthumous conditional pardon – UK politics live -what a mess! A pardon is a pardon not a life sentence
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
How Three Chess Friends Battled Demons and Saved Two Lives www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/n...
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How Three Chess Friends Battled Demons and Saved Two Lives
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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Philippa Perry: The spirit behind Peter Murrell’s spending spree isn’t greed
It’s normal for avaricious people to want a pen, a car, a watch, writes the Nerve’s cultural agony aunt. But what does it mean when, like Nicola Sturgeon’s husband, you buy the same status symbol over...
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
'I was hospitalised twice in one month from the stress of dealing with the Windrush Home Office scheme' open.substack.com/pub/melissas...
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'I was hospitalised twice in one month from the stress of dealing with the Windrush Home Office scheme'
'The Home Office should not run the compensation scheme', survivors say.
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
April 2026 roundup open.substack.com/pub/faircomm...
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April 2026 roundup
Exploring wealth, freedom and lived experience: how Britain's economy shapes who has power, and how policy decisions ripple through real lives
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The Community Reporter www.thecommunityreporter.co.uk?utm_source=n...
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The Community Reporter | Melissa Sigodo | Substack
The Community Reporter previously known as The Source was founded by awarded journalist Melissa Sigodo to cover the Black community in the UK through independent journalism with a huge emphasis on com...
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
30th April 2026 20.34
Almost full moon rising
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The Fairytale Language of the Brothers Grimm daily.jstor.org/the-fairytal...
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The Fairytale Language of the Brothers Grimm - JSTOR Daily
How the Brothers Grimm went hunting for fairytales and accidentally changed the course of historical linguistics and kickstarted a new field of scholarship in folklore.
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
How America Racialized the Robot daily.jstor.org/how-america-...
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How America Racialized the Robot - JSTOR Daily
Early robots in the US evolved from symbols of revolt into racialized figures tied to labor and the legacy of slavery.
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Worried About Teens Today? So Were Adults in the 1920s daily.jstor.org/worried-abou...
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Worried About Teens Today? So Were Adults in the 1920s - JSTOR Daily
A century ago, new technology and mobility reshaped what it meant to be young, linking rural life more closely to the city.
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The Urgency of Indigenous Values daily.jstor.org/the-urgency-...
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The Urgency of Indigenous Values - JSTOR Daily
As global crises mount, religion scholar Philip P. Arnold argues the Haudenosaunee’s Great Law of Peace offers a way out of the West’s self-destructive path.
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
How Olly Robbins’ knightly charm glossed over burning questions on Mandelson vetting
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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A fungus photo a day: Lichenomphalia lichen taken yesterday. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
20th April 2026 06.03
Coloured stripes
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eastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This is "Charmouth" by John Cooper from 1934. Cooper was a great friend of Richard Eurich's who had lived & worked in Lyme Regis in the early 1930s & Cooper & his wife, Phyllis Bray stayed with him on occasion & both of them painted in the area, hence this view. #JohnCooper #Dorset #EastLondonGroup
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A brief history of rentierism open.substack.com/pub/faircomm... it makes sense!
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A brief history of rentierism
An interview with Brett Christophers, author of 'Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?'
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Man jailed for murdering deaf woman on night out open.substack.com/pub/melissas...
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Man jailed for murdering deaf woman on night out
Zahwa Mukhtar was thrown from a car and fatally beaten by a man she met while out in Hackney
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
8th April 2026 06.34
Rising through the layers of cloud
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The Community Reporter www.thecommunityreporter.co.uk?utm_campaign...
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The Community Reporter | Melissa Sigodo | Substack
The Community Reporter previously known as The Source was founded by awarded journalist Melissa Sigodo to cover the Black community in the UK through independent journalism with a huge emphasis on com...
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
'We launched a swim school to boost Black swimming numbers - now our classes are selling out and getting the aunties moving' open.substack.com/pub/melissas...
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'We launched a swim school to boost Black swimming numbers - now our classes are selling out and getting the aunties moving'
With a DJ, some Afrobeats and Amapiano, Penguins Palace Swim School provides a ‘welcoming’ environment making a difference.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Peter Blake's painting (1955) depicts two young boys standing side-by-side in dark jackets. The title 'ABC Minors,' refers to popular Saturday morning cinema clubs.
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Maggie Vandewalle - Strata. #Watercolour
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
5th April 2026 06.42
The calm after the storm
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
3rd April 2026 06.54
Cooler with a fret ( of things to come)
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Elena Wuest (German, b.1977) "Airy Garden," 2025 Oil on canvas 180 x 110 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 03/04/2026
The Drunken Ship — Claire Daliers in Brussels, Belgium <3 14 Murals That Change the Mood of a City: streetartutopia.com/2026/04/03/m...
Large trompe-l’œil mural titled “The Drunken Ship” by Claire Daliers on the corner of a multi-story building in Brussels, Belgium, depicting a tall sailing ship crashing through painted ocean waves that wrap around the facade, with white sails billowing across windows and the illusion of the vessel breaking out of the wall, blending sky, sea, and architecture into a realistic maritime scene on a rainy urban street.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 03/04/2026
When will government step in and defend households and the environment? Thames Water is in breach of its licence conditions since July 2024 Why should a handful of US hedge funds be allowed to rip off 16 million Thames Water customers while flouting the law? morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tham...
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Thames Water slammed as ‘a complete disgrace’ for attempting to dodge fines
CAMPAIGNERS slammed Thames Water today branding the service “a complete disgrace” for seeking to dodge fines.We Own It and the GMB union demanded the water regulator “grow a spine” following reports t...
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
A new chapter open.substack.com/pub/melissas...
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A new chapter
It starts with a BIG change.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 29/03/2026
Margaret Thatcher sowed the seeds of society's destruction by placing profits between us and the things we need to live😡😡 The government must end this inhumane experiment now. They promised to do so. @ianbyrnemp.bsky.social.bsky.social vist.ly/4wj34
Graphic with a screenshot of an X post from MP Ian Byrne saying "Yet another example of the privatisation of vital services becoming a national disaster. This is what happens when essentials are handed to the market: failure, neglect, and profits put before people. When will this country learn the lessons of this failed Thatcherite ideology. How many more failures do we need before we finally say: enough is enough?"

The graphic also includes a Guardian headline that says "The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs"
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Trump’s Iran war is holding him hostage | Sidney Blumenthal. Superb analysis
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Trump’s Iran war is holding him hostage | Sidney Blumenthal. Superb
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The fear Black parents hold deep inside in order to survive open.substack.com/pub/melissas...
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The fear Black parents hold deep inside in order to survive
A 14-month-old was restrained and suffocated to death at daycare after a nursery worker 'tried to make him sleep.'
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
29th March 2026 07.43
Grey, cool and calm
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
A Phone-Free Childhood? One Irish Village Is Making It Happen. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/r...
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A Phone-Free Childhood? One Irish Village Is Making It Happen.
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 26/03/2026
In the last 100 years the US has conducted only three solo military operations that could be counted a win. Isabel Hilton explains why
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Why the United States can’t win wars
Washington has immense military power at its disposal—but no idea how to secure a meaningful victory
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
27th March 2026 06.11
Wave breaking over the Carr
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Cucumber: The Plant That Moves More than You Think daily.jstor.org/cucumber-the...
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Cucumber: The Plant That Moves More than You Think - JSTOR Daily
Be it with its curling tendrils or because of its desirable properties, the cucumber is defined by motion: vertical, horizontal, geographical, and digital.
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yvonneroberts.bsky.social @yvonneroberts.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
When a Narcissist Goes to War www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/o...
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Opinion | When a Narcissist Goes to War
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
'Fowey Harbour, Cornwall.' (1887) Frank Brangwyn was among the new generation of artists who painted radically different coastal pictures in Britain in the 1880s, their vision sharpened and modernised by the new reportage methods which came with hand-held photography.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 22/03/2026
For far too long shareholder dividends have come before people in our water system. Time to end this scandal once and for all. Public ownership of water NOW!
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eastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I thought that I'd start the week & #MondayMorning with another one that I haven't shown for quite a long time. This is "In Hampstead" by Cecil Osborne from 1930. It came to light a few years ago at auction &, thankfully, I am glad to say that I am in contact with its new owner. #CecilOsborne
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 23/03/2026
Thames Water's creditors have submitted a new proposal to take control of the utility. But it's more of the same - trying to set their own rules & regulations in order to maximise profits. Enough is enough. Can you email your MP, asking them to get the Environment Secretary to reject this deal?
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Email your MP - the Thames Water creditors' latest deal must be rejected
The Thames Water creditors' latest proposal still asks for regulatory leniency. Email your MP to get them to urge Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds to resist the deal
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