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Painting and sculpture. Poetry. Photography

Renaissance and Late Medieval History

Military History and Intelligence

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Nick Hulme CBE, chief executive of the East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, will leave the role around Christmas.

The 65-year-old started his healthcare career as a porter at Middlesex Hospital in 1980 before spending the next 46 years in various frontline and managerial roles

#R4Today
Ipswich and Colchester NHS hospitals boss to retire after 47 years
Nick Hulme is leaving his role as chief executive of the NHS trust that runs two major hospitals.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Michael Wolff tried to buy New York Mag — with money from Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein.

So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Blurred lines: how Michael Wolff aspired to be part of elite circles he wrote about
The writer who features prominently in newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails has achieved extraordinary access but faced questions about his journalistic ethics
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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John Boles and Nancy Carroll in Child of Manhattan (1933) 🍾
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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“CRISS CROSS” (1949) dir. Robert Siodmak

Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally

📽 Universal International
🎞 #Noirvember
November 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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I do not understand those still attempting to defend Labour. Every day the gap between them and Reform, on immigration, trans and non-binary rights, disabled individuals etc shrinks. Human rights have to apply to everyone or they end up applying to no-one. #r4today

news.sky.com/story/home-s...
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Milan hikes tourist tax ahead of the upcoming Winter Olympics, sparking an outcry from the city's hospitality sector.
Milan hikes tourist tax ahead of 2026 Winter Olympics
Hike in tourist tax sparks controversy in Milan. Milan city council on Thursday voted to increase the tourist tax ahead of the upcoming Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics, sparking controversy among the h...
www.wantedinmilan.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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It can be decades after a conflict ends for a country to even start to be considered "safe". Many refugees may never be able to return due to long term trauma. Mahmood is specifically talking about leaving vulnerable people in limbo and fearful for their futures. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mahmood expected to axe permanent UK settlement for asylum seekers
The Home Secretary is expected to announce asylum seekers can only stay in the UK temporarily.
www.bbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?

Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.

@commonswec.parliament.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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This is worth every second
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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crazy

IG em_clarkson
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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#NoirvemberChallenge #FilmNoir
Day 14. Who's on the Film Noir Mount Rushmore.
Jane Greer, Robert Mitchum, Jacques Tourneur and Nicholas Musuraca.
Out of the Past, 1947.
November 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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"Morals are bad because they won't help your cause," an article by someone who hates your cause and wants your cause to fail.
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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If you can hear me there,
if this reaches you

@joriegraham.bsky.social, whose words I long to read, in the @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jorie Graham · Poem: ‘Demonstration’
www.lrb.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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1. Transgender soldiers and veterans have faced horrific mistreatment by the Trump administration.

Now, a coalition of LGBTQ+ military organizations are urging states to pass legislation to help those forced out of service or off healthcare.

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Veterans Group Urges States To Pass Protective Policies In Response To Trump Trans Bans
Trans veterans are being let go without a safety net. Here’s what your state can do about it.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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In a Lonely Place (1950) 🎥
Directed by Nicholas Ray

A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his neighbour clears him.
However, she soon starts to have her doubts.

#FilMSky
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Just a reminder, the coward who refused to accept an election loss in 2020 and then committed crimes trying to overthrow that election will certainly cheat, abuse his powers, and break the law to try to win the 2026 & 2028 elections.

He’s a real threat to democracy. Believe it.
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Cinema Is tatsuya nakadai
a black and white photo of a man kneeling on a white mat
ALT: a black and white photo of a man kneeling on a white mat
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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“So you’ve heard nothing from this administration as this has been playing out?”

Epstein Survivor Annie Farmer: “No.”
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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THE THING (1982)
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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I can’t recommend this highly enough. 5ish hours extremely well spent. Could be time to revisit a few Scorcese scenes…
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Let me fix that for you:

Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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From Kiev to the West Bank, from the Caribbean to Chicago, pax Trumpiana
A disgrace
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Russia attacks ‘every district’ of Kyiv, sparking fires across Ukrainian capital
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 4:49 AM
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Frances Dee, 1937.
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Friction
YouTube video by Television - Topic
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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New in PN: “It’s 4chan shit" — @cwarzel.bsky.social on the federal government's deranged social media presence

"Now you see Trump administration accounts that look like they’re literally run by Groypers. What Homeland Security is tweeting out isn’t even dog-whistling anymore."
“It’s 4chan s**t": The govt's deranged social media presence
"You see Trump administration accounts that look like they’re literally run by Groypers," Charlie Warzel tells us.
www.publicnotice.co
November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM