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Albert Weale
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Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL. Brighton born and bred. No longer resident, but still liberal. Expressed views mine only.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 1d
“Flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.”(Ruskin)
Nocturne: Blue & Gold - Old Battersea Bridge, c 1872, by James McNeill Whistler, avant-garde American artist, born #OTD 1834. Pioneer of Aesthetic Movement & proponent of Art for Art, inspired characters in Proust & Henry James.
Tate Britain
Whistler sued Ruskin for libel over his criticism of his Nocturne series exhibition & a notorious court case ensued. Whistler won the case but was awarded one farthing in damages.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 1d
John Ruskin, Victorian art critic & reformer, champion of JMW Turner, author of The Stones of Venice, born #OTD 1819.
Portrait beside Glen Finglas in Scotland, 1854, by John Everett Millais
Ashmolean Museum Oxford

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 1d
Still Life with Flowers & Fruit, c 1735, by Jan van Huysum, preeminent 18th Century Dutch flower artist; died #OTD 1749; known for loose arrangements of flowers & fruit in terracotta urns, with roses, tulips, drops of dew, insects, luscious peaches & grapes, painted with intensity.
Rijksmuseum
Jan van Huysum’s green pigments have developed a distinctive bluish tinge with age.

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Albert Weale @albertpweale.bsky.social · 1d
When winter comes, can spring be far behind?

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Albert Weale @albertpweale.bsky.social · 1d
Have looked at questions and responses. Pretty well all invite the acquiescent response set of ‘too little’. When everything is a priority, nothing is. Pity, they could be a serious outfit.
robertsaunders.bsky.social Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 1d
The difficulty is that this is not "a simple problem".

There is no simple route to "growth, jobs and rising living standards" in an age of tariff wars, disruptive new technologies, climate change, war in Ukraine, Brexit & Trump.

The pretence that these things *were* easy has done Labour real harm
prosperuk.bsky.social Prosper UK @prosperuk.bsky.social · 2d
Our new polling with More in Common exposes a simple problem in British politics.

Voters want growth, jobs and rising living standards.

But they don’t think politicians are focused on any of them.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 1d
The difficulty is that this is not "a simple problem".

There is no simple route to "growth, jobs and rising living standards" in an age of tariff wars, disruptive new technologies, climate change, war in Ukraine, Brexit & Trump.

The pretence that these things *were* easy has done Labour real harm
prosperuk.bsky.social Prosper UK @prosperuk.bsky.social · 2d
Our new polling with More in Common exposes a simple problem in British politics.

Voters want growth, jobs and rising living standards.

But they don’t think politicians are focused on any of them.

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 2d
The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 2d
”It was the best of times; it was the worst of times...”
Charles Dickens, Victorian novelist born #OTD 1812; George Orwell noted “no English writer has written better about childhood...”
Portrait by Daniel Maclise, 1839, National Portrait Gallery, London | Cartoon Tom Gauld
@tomgauld.bsky.social

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The Christian Left @the-christian-left.bsky.social · 2d
Trump Condemned Over 'Disgusting' Video Of Obamas As Primates: 'There's No Bottom' — California Gov. Gavin Newsom's press office called on "every single Republican" to denounce the president over the clip.
Trump Condemned Over 'Racist' And 'Disgusting' Video Of Obamas: 'There's No Bottom'
California Gov. Gavin Newsom's press office called on "every single Republican" to denounce the president over the clip.
www.huffpost.com

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 2d
“Sue [Gray] didn’t want him near anything …She could probably see that all of this would happen.”
‘Pestering for a role’: how Mandelson talked his way back into the Labour fold
Officials, MPs and other insiders recall a need for clarity and Blair-era frisson before election – even if Sue Gray was wary
www.theguardian.com

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d
My weekly email to my Republican congressman…

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Ian O'Flynn @delibnet.bsky.social · 2d
MLK on 'racism'.

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Philip Stafford @staffordphilip.bsky.social · 3d
Even the dog doesn't want to be in this pic

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 3d
📻 This Sunday on BBC Radio 3, at 7.45pm - the Sunday Feature: Ralph Vaughan Williams and Fenland Music.

Robert Macfarlane, Alyson Tapp and Caroline Davison talk to poet Jade Cuttle about the musical inspiration Ralph Vaughan Williams found in the fens.
BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Ralph Vaughan Williams and fenland music
Poet Jade Cuttle visits the landscape which inspired a young Vaughan Williams
www.bbc.co.uk

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d
Bezos’s calculated vandalism of the Washington Post ft.trib.al/EsztU6G
Bezos’s calculated vandalism of the Washington Post
He is just one of several pro-Trump oligarchs who now control key sections of the US media
ft.trib.al

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 3d
"The Post proudly adopted the motto “democracy dies in darkness” after Trump was first elected. Now the paper is an exhibit of his attempts to smother democracy in broad daylight." My Swamp Notes with @grimeslikedimes.bsky.social on oligarch destruction of US media. as.ft.com/r/f2dcdea9-a...
Bezos’s calculated vandalism of the Washington Post
[FREE TO READ] He is just one of several pro-Trump oligarchs who now control key sections of the US media
as.ft.com

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 3d
England’s greatest gardener: Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, landscape architect & Royal Gardener to George III, died #OTD 1783; landscaped estates of great country houses, including Blenheim Palace and Chatsworth House.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 3d
Portrait of Emilie Flöge, avant-garde Viennese couturière, painted in 1902, by her companion Gustav Klimt, Austrian Symbolist painter, founder of Vienna Secession, died #OTD 1918. She is thought to have inspired Klimt’s famous work The Kiss 1908.
Wien Museum | Österreichische Galerie,Belvedere, Wien

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 3d
Man with blue quilted sleeve c 1510, masterpiece by Titian, greatest Renaissance artist of Venetian school (c.1488- 1576) inspired Rembrandt’s self-portrait of 1640. Titian’s projecting sleeve on stone sill or parapet with artist’s monogram, is reflected in Rembrandt’s work.
National Gallery London

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 4d
A Knight with jousting helmet, iron foot brace & rapier, painted 1554-58, by Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian Mannerist artist of restrained, subtle portraits with silvery tonality, influenced by Titian & Lotto; died #OTD 1578.
National Gallery London (See Alt Text)
The subject has been identified as Conte Faustino Avogadro of Brescia, a member of the Italian nobility, whose struggles seem defined by the cracked & stained wall, the tumbled pieces of armour & lamed foot.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 4d
”La mémoire est dans le coeur.”
Queen of letter writers, Madame de Sévigné, born #OTD 1626; friend of Jean de la Fontaine and La Rochefoucauld, supporter of Fouquet, she inspired Proust’s À la Recherche du Temps Perdu.
Portrait by Claude Lefèbvre c. 1665
Musée Carnavalet

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 5d
A programme produced by the Music Teachers’ Association provides free resources for teaching about various aspects of RVW’s work, from Early Years Foundation Stage through to Key Stage 5. 🎓

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 5d
Proposal for a cenotaph for 'esprit sublime' Sir Isaac Newton, by Étienne-Louis Boullée, visionary Neoclassical French architect, pioneer of ‘architecture parlante’; died #OTD 1799.
Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 5d
Amsterdam landmark church & tower Zuiderkerk 1603-1614, designed by Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch Mannerist architect & sculptor born 1565, worked in England with Inigo Jones; buried at Zuiderkerk 1621.
Rembrandt lived near the church, which was painted by Monet in 1874.
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Rembrandt lived near the church (three of his children were buried here); it was painted by Monet in 1874.

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Albert Weale @albertpweale.bsky.social · 6d
Who also noted that the English constitution was like an old man who wore the fashions of his youth: what you see is unchanged but inside all is different.
drannaclark.bsky.social Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 6d
‘Victorian England's most versatile genius’, Walter Bagehot, journalist, economist, born #OTD 1826; editor of The Economist, author of The English Constitution (1867), which defined the monarch’s role as ‘the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn’.
Mezzotint NPG London

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 6d
Finland’s Architect: Alvar Aalto, transformative modernist architect & designer, born #OTD 1898. His landmark work is the marble & granite Finlandia Hall 1962-71 in Helsinki, inspired by Sibelius’ tone poem of 1899, celebrating Finland’s struggle for independence from Russia.
#DayofFinnishArchitectureand Design Alvar Aalto, transformative modernist architect & designer, born #OTD 1898, known for his attention to every detail of design (Gesamtkunstwerk). His landmark work is the marble & granite Finlandia Hall 1962-71 in Helsinki, inspired by Sibelius’ tone poem of 1899, celebrating Finland’s struggle for independence from Russia. #DayofFinnishArchitectureand Design Alvar Aalto, transformative modernist architect & designer, born #OTD 1898, known for his attention to every detail of design (Gesamtkunstwerk). His landmark work is the marble & granite Finlandia Hall 1962-71 in Helsinki, inspired by Sibelius’ tone poem of 1899, celebrating Finland’s struggle for independence from Russia.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 6d
‘Victorian England's most versatile genius’, Walter Bagehot, journalist, economist, born #OTD 1826; editor of The Economist, author of The English Constitution (1867), which defined the monarch’s role as ‘the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn’.
Mezzotint NPG London

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 6d
The Denial of St Peter c. 1620 by ‘Master of Candlelight’, Gerard van Honthorst (1592-1656), Dutch artist of Golden Age & a founding figure of Utrecht Caravaggisti; visiting painter at court of Charles I.
Musée de Beaux Arts, Rennes

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 6d
BREAKING:

The Metropolitan Police:

"Following this (Epstein) release and subsequent media reporting, the Met has received a number of reports relating to alleged misconduct in a public office. The reports will all be reviewed to determine if they meet the criminal threshold for investigation."

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 6d
Fun as well as erudite @financialtimes.com piece from @philipjcowley.bsky.social - "Bugger Burke" - on defectors and the pro and con of an immediate by-election as.ft.com/r/5c050691-6...
How to deal with defecting MPs
[FREE TO READ] Voters should be able to force parliamentarians who change parties to face the electorate
as.ft.com