Angela Rae
@amr2014.bsky.social
Committed European working in international development. Also a singer and lover of gardens.
Ironic that Meloni's crew want to celebrate St Francis, the wokest of Saints. Maybe Starmer should make St George's day a holiday too. Touché, Reform.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Italy’s far-right government revives holiday for saint at ‘core of our nation’s identity’
Millions of Italian workers expected to get day off every 4 October in honour of Saint Francis of Assisi
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Ironic that Meloni's crew want to celebrate St Francis, the wokest of Saints. Maybe Starmer should make St George's day a holiday too. Touché, Reform.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Absolutely correct.
September 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Absolutely correct.
Reposted by Angela Rae
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
August 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...
weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...
Petition: Take our trains into public ownership | We Own It
The government is taking railway operators into public ownership, but the trains themselves will remain in private hands. The government must take our trains into public ownership.
weownit.org.uk
April 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...
weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...
Reposted by Angela Rae
Something lovely for the weekend!
Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC.
📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC.
📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
January 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Something lovely for the weekend!
Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC.
📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC.
📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
Shout out to Radio 3 for excellent Christmas programming - this is what I pay my licence for. Wonderful music and so open to Europe that if I close my eyes I can almost pretend that Brexit didn't happen.
December 21, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Shout out to Radio 3 for excellent Christmas programming - this is what I pay my licence for. Wonderful music and so open to Europe that if I close my eyes I can almost pretend that Brexit didn't happen.