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Andrew
@andd21.bsky.social
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Retired bureaucrat, of the street level kind. Perhaps thoughtful.... #Northumbrian #NorthEastScot

Rough Collies, family, braes if not bens. Reading and learning. Not getting in the hillwalking I should be doing, nor the gardening 🫣
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Three cheers for Jonny Diamond for a skilled interview of a MAGA blowhard www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to Radio 4 on BBC Sounds
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January 2, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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The argument for the democracy that we're losing. open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...
The Coming Clash of Civilizations
From the Wilderness of a Recovering Technocrat
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November 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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A review that's too good not to mention. AN Wilson has come good.

magazine.newstatesman.com/2025/09/03/c...
Christianity’s political ascent
Alice Roberts’ history of the late Roman empire dispels the notion of a faith for the poor and oppressed – but lacks an appreciation of why Christ appealed to so many.
magazine.newstatesman.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Trans people deserve to exist.

Pass it on!
hazelmpinner.bsky.social Hazel Pinner @hazelmpinner.bsky.social · May 17
Trans people deserve to exist.

Pass it on!
shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social ShropsFidgetPie 🇭🇰🇪🇺♿️Trans ally. @shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social · May 17
Trans people deserve to exist.

Pass it the fuck on.
May 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Assentior
yorkshirebylines.co.uk Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · May 11
✍️ Labour’s moment to rebuild democracy is slipping away

Labour must ditch the half-measures and embrace bold constitutional reform to restore trust and reconnect politics with the people

By Frances Crook

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Labour’s moment to rebuild democracy is slipping away
Labour must ditch the half-measures and embrace bold constitutional reform to restore trust and reconnect politics with the people
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
May 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Antisemitism in the Oval Office
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Antisemitism in the Oval Office
A confrontation seen with a historian's eye
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March 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Nan Shepherd, novelist of the North-East

Prof Alison Lumsden @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social discusses Nan Shepherd’s novels – THE QUARRY WOOD, THE WEATHERHOUSE, and A PASS IN THE GRAMPIANS – at our 2017 Schools Conference
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Nan Shepherd, novelist of the North-East – Alison Lumsden
YouTube video by Education Scotland
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February 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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“If these children need me in days of sunshine,
how much more do they need me in days of darkness?”
—Jane Haining

“In Days of Darkness”, a poem by Stuart A. Paterson for #HolocaustMemorialDay
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/days-da...
In Days of Darkness Stuart A. Paterson “If these children need me in days of sunshine, how much more do they need me in days of darkness?” —Jane Haining You rose each day at 5 a.m. to go to market for their food, sliced your leather luggage into strips they’d use for soles on worn-out shoes, paid for everything on trips to beach or town, sewed clothes back into life for those in need of more than hand-me-downs, you, the second mother. Two days before your death, you wrote There is not much to report from here. There wouldn’t be, no excursions to arrange to forest or museum or picture house, no growing hands & fingernails to inspect, only memories of how you wept along with them when stitching yellow stars onto their uniforms, refused to leave for safety, stayed right to the very end for & alongside them, your girls. You lived & breathed your school motto, learning elevates, a missionary not just for church but life itself passed on from Lochenhead, Dumfries, Glasgow all the way to Budapest & into every small, attentive head you ever turned away from darker days toward the brightness of an opened book. Streets, stained glass windows, a commemorative cairn exist to honour you who saw mountains on the way not just to Heaven but to Auschwitz. And yet a little girl of ninety-seven is your true memorial, carries you as surely as you carried her into that sunshine, smiles still as she talks of times Miss Haining took the girls on woodland walks or to see the latest Judy Garland; tributes of smile, of breath, of memory that she paid for everything so they could live.
January 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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1.21.25 Homily by The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde
YouTube video by Washington National Cathedral
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January 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Pleased to have read this book. Very important. Spoiler - Marx was mainly wrong about 1848.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/61...
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-184…
'One of the best history books you will read this decad…
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November 23, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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Hero.
September 14, 2024 at 7:18 AM