Marina
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I'm sorry to be so difficult, but I'm afraid the truth is that I am.
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My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
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She was always THE woman. Looking right at you from 1590: Infanta Catalina Micaela (almost surely), painted by Sofonisba Anguissola (probably). Surely one of the greatest renaissance portraits.
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
She was always THE woman. Looking right at you from 1590: Infanta Catalina Micaela (almost surely), painted by Sofonisba Anguissola (probably). Surely one of the greatest renaissance portraits.
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Today marks the 400th anniversary of the passing of Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola. Read about the artist on the #ArtHerstory blog -
Sofonisba Anguissola in Enschede, an Exhibition Review
by Erika Gaffney with Cara Verona Viglucci
artherstory.net/sofonisba-an...
Sofonisba Anguissola in Enschede, an Exhibition Review
by Erika Gaffney with Cara Verona Viglucci
artherstory.net/sofonisba-an...
Sofonisba Anguissola in Enschede | An Exhibition Review
This post reviews the exhibition Sofonisba Anguissola: Portraitist of the Renaissance, presented at the Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Spring 2023.
artherstory.net
November 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Today marks the 400th anniversary of the passing of Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola. Read about the artist on the #ArtHerstory blog -
Sofonisba Anguissola in Enschede, an Exhibition Review
by Erika Gaffney with Cara Verona Viglucci
artherstory.net/sofonisba-an...
Sofonisba Anguissola in Enschede, an Exhibition Review
by Erika Gaffney with Cara Verona Viglucci
artherstory.net/sofonisba-an...
Get fucked why don't you. I've been trying to get a museum sign moved from one side of a door to another in a listed building for the past year. If anything is an altar - & this is a metaphor that actually works - it's the UK's increasing number of crumbling, unaffordable, unusable listed buildings.
Buildings of all historical periods have been sacrificed on the altar of ‘build, baby, build’.
✍️ Calvin Po
✍️ Calvin Po
Labour's war on heritage
Britain’s heritage is slowly going up in smoke. Medlock Mill was Manchester’s oldest standing textile mill until it burnt down in June. It joins Grade I-listed Woolton Hall – destroyed by a catastrophic...
www.spectator.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Get fucked why don't you. I've been trying to get a museum sign moved from one side of a door to another in a listed building for the past year. If anything is an altar - & this is a metaphor that actually works - it's the UK's increasing number of crumbling, unaffordable, unusable listed buildings.
There are two animal charities and zero women's, DVA, VAWG or sexual violence charities on this list. Just in case one needed a demonstration of who & what it's trendy to care about in this society
FYI: The BBC has revealed the charities #TheCelebrityTraitors were all competing for, with links so that you can donate.
November 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
There are two animal charities and zero women's, DVA, VAWG or sexual violence charities on this list. Just in case one needed a demonstration of who & what it's trendy to care about in this society
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Another grim night in Kyiv. Six people were killed and dozens injured after Russian drones and ballistic missiles hit the Ukrainian capital. Our hotel shook. As ever, Vladimir Putin is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in a campaign of murder & terror www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Russian attacks on Kyiv ‘calculated and wicked’, says Zelenskyy
Pictures posted on social media showed different sites in flames and residents gathering in rubble-strewn streets outside apartment buildings
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Another grim night in Kyiv. Six people were killed and dozens injured after Russian drones and ballistic missiles hit the Ukrainian capital. Our hotel shook. As ever, Vladimir Putin is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in a campaign of murder & terror www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
If still feels unfair that statistically I'm more likely to be alone for the test of my life after a breakup in my early 50s than a man after a breakup in his late 60s.
Separated and divorced men often find another woman to live with quickly because they are in shock about how hard life is when they haven't got a wife doing everything for them. Divorced women usually find life easier without the extra load.
November 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If still feels unfair that statistically I'm more likely to be alone for the test of my life after a breakup in my early 50s than a man after a breakup in his late 60s.
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What exactly is the Chancellor going to do?
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
What exactly is the Chancellor going to do?
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America's network of democratic alliances was a jewel. Never before had a great power relied on cultivating voluntary relationships, leading to the richest, most powerful country in history, and benefitting the world relative to the alternative.
Then America decided to throw it away. And for what?
Then America decided to throw it away. And for what?
Homan: "I don't think the UK is a friend to this country and friend of the president"
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
America's network of democratic alliances was a jewel. Never before had a great power relied on cultivating voluntary relationships, leading to the richest, most powerful country in history, and benefitting the world relative to the alternative.
Then America decided to throw it away. And for what?
Then America decided to throw it away. And for what?
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Prime example of why the contract between the public and the police is breaking down, regardless of long term crime trends. Thames Valley Police don’t even think it’s their job to investigate this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kidlington fly-tipping: Criminals dump mountain of waste in field
The enormous pile of rubbish is called an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Prime example of why the contract between the public and the police is breaking down, regardless of long term crime trends. Thames Valley Police don’t even think it’s their job to investigate this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jesus
A rapist described by the Metropolitan Police as “one of the most prolific sex offenders” ever seen has been given a life sentence for drugging, assaulting and filming multiple women
Xu Chao targeted Chinese students he met through his recruitment firm
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/w...
Xu Chao targeted Chinese students he met through his recruitment firm
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/w...
Rapist Believed to Be One of Britain’s Worst Sex Offenders Gets Life Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Jesus
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Quite a contrast to the BlueSky consensus the last 24 hours
Do you think the government was right or wrong to decide not to raise income tax at the Budget?
Right: 58%
Wrong: 21%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Right: 58%
Wrong: 21%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Quite a contrast to the BlueSky consensus the last 24 hours
If you're on the far left, every kind of splitting is possible. We should use this lot to run power stations.
Is it even possible to split from a party that technically hasn't formed yet?
Blimey. Major new split in Your Party. Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain -who is secretary of the Your Party company - says he's quitting due to "persistent infighting, factional competition, and a struggle for power, position and influence rather than a shared commitment to the common good."
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
If you're on the far left, every kind of splitting is possible. We should use this lot to run power stations.
They absolutely do not know their own history. They're not taught it past roughly Tudor times, with a detour through Finest Hour stuff, because the politics of teaching Empire are identical with the forces still tearing the UK apart.
No. No. It's absurd enough to think this for Americans, but fucking Brits!? Do you not know your own history!? Part of the country was in a civil war!
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
They absolutely do not know their own history. They're not taught it past roughly Tudor times, with a detour through Finest Hour stuff, because the politics of teaching Empire are identical with the forces still tearing the UK apart.
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Nine out of 10 residential buildings in Mariupol were damaged or destroyed during Russia’s invasion. Now, the apartment blocks are being rebuilt – and offered for sale to Russians with low-interest mortgages. Residents who survived the siege must become Russian citizens to claim their homes.
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Nine out of 10 residential buildings in Mariupol were damaged or destroyed during Russia’s invasion. Now, the apartment blocks are being rebuilt – and offered for sale to Russians with low-interest mortgages. Residents who survived the siege must become Russian citizens to claim their homes.
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“Around 430 drones and 18 missiles” were used in tonight’s strike, President Zelensky said— including ballistic and aero-ballistic types.
Four people are confirmed dead. Debris from an Iskander missile hit Azerbaijan’s Embassy. In Kyiv, dozens of apartment buildings were damaged. 👇
Four people are confirmed dead. Debris from an Iskander missile hit Azerbaijan’s Embassy. In Kyiv, dozens of apartment buildings were damaged. 👇
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
“Around 430 drones and 18 missiles” were used in tonight’s strike, President Zelensky said— including ballistic and aero-ballistic types.
Four people are confirmed dead. Debris from an Iskander missile hit Azerbaijan’s Embassy. In Kyiv, dozens of apartment buildings were damaged. 👇
Four people are confirmed dead. Debris from an Iskander missile hit Azerbaijan’s Embassy. In Kyiv, dozens of apartment buildings were damaged. 👇
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More from the: “I remember being happiest when I was a child” brigade. How about we make judgements on living standards, levels of racism, crime, happiness etc. based on evidence rather than the vague remembrances of people nostalgic for a world they didn’t really experience?
Ah the 1970s.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
November 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
More from the: “I remember being happiest when I was a child” brigade. How about we make judgements on living standards, levels of racism, crime, happiness etc. based on evidence rather than the vague remembrances of people nostalgic for a world they didn’t really experience?
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NEW: The biggest union in the BBC, Bectu, has written to culture secretary Lisa Nandy and BBC chair Samir Shah, demanding the removal of Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board.
They say Gibb, a political appointee, is a “direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence”.
They say Gibb, a political appointee, is a “direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence”.
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
NEW: The biggest union in the BBC, Bectu, has written to culture secretary Lisa Nandy and BBC chair Samir Shah, demanding the removal of Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board.
They say Gibb, a political appointee, is a “direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence”.
They say Gibb, a political appointee, is a “direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence”.
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Ah the 1970s.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Ah the 1970s.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
This is very good news. We need to make sure the knowledge of their rights trickles through to tenants though, especially ones who are vulnerable or for whom English isn't their first language.
#BBCNews - Renters’ Rights Act: No-fault evictions banned from May 2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Renters’ Rights Act: No-fault evictions banned from May 2026
The government confirms timeline for reforms to England’s rental market, including ending bidding wars.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This is very good news. We need to make sure the knowledge of their rights trickles through to tenants though, especially ones who are vulnerable or for whom English isn't their first language.
Surprise!
My main takeaway of the whole Epstein thing is that women, on a very fundamental level, still don‘t really matter.
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Surprise!
He'd have to be convicted first to be pardoned. And to be honest if all I can get is that bastard actually convicted & this endless endless trial coming to a conclusion, even without him actually doing jail time, then I'll take it
🇮🇱 🇺🇸 Israeli President Isaac Herzog said he has received a letter from US President Donald Trump asking him to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial in three separate corruption cases.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
He'd have to be convicted first to be pardoned. And to be honest if all I can get is that bastard actually convicted & this endless endless trial coming to a conclusion, even without him actually doing jail time, then I'll take it
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Labour have increased public spending on services by £69.5 billion in the last budget.
There has been an increase in capital spending, public sector pay, benefits & day to day spending.
To imply that they haven’t is a simple barefaced lie.
There has been an increase in capital spending, public sector pay, benefits & day to day spending.
To imply that they haven’t is a simple barefaced lie.
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Labour have increased public spending on services by £69.5 billion in the last budget.
There has been an increase in capital spending, public sector pay, benefits & day to day spending.
To imply that they haven’t is a simple barefaced lie.
There has been an increase in capital spending, public sector pay, benefits & day to day spending.
To imply that they haven’t is a simple barefaced lie.