Baroness Barbara Keeley
baronesskeeley.bsky.social
Baroness Barbara Keeley
@baronesskeeley.bsky.social
Labour Peer. Former MP for Worsley & Eccles South & former Shadow Minister for the Arts and Music.
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🥣 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗞𝗜𝗧𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗡

Thank you to Shiraz Haider for showing me around Open Kitchen, a charity organised by Muslim Hands UK, including the new kitchen facilities recently installed here.

So far 71,800 hot meals have been distributed to those living in food poverty in south Manchester.

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November 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Amazing to see such big names, including Radiohead, Dua Lipa and Coldplay, teaming up to call for a swift end to the black market that is secondary ticketing! 🎟️🌹
British music stars urge Starmer to tackle ‘pernicious’ ticket tout websites
Radiohead, Dua Lipa and Coldplay among dozens of artists calling for cap on resale prices to stop exploitation of fans
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Lest we forget 🌺

📸 Imperial War Museums
November 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Huh? How do you do a "balancing" program when one candidate did an insurgency trying to overturn the election and the other...didn't?

Would Prescott have been satisfied with an hour of people telling BBC journalists why they didn't try and stoke a riot to overturn Trump's second win?
Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’

More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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NEW: Lisa Nandy says she still has confidence in BBC leaders after Trump speech edit

BBC continues to be attacked for criticisms made by a former adviser.

While BBC set to apologise for error, some insiders also see a political campaign from the right:

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Lisa Nandy says she still has confidence in BBC leaders after Trump speech edit
Culture secretary has spoken to BBC chair Samir Shah about criticised edit of US president’s 6 January 2021 speech
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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For those interested in @nationaltrust.org.uk and its council elections & the threat from Restore Trust then this is an excellent thread from @sundersays.bsky.social 👇
National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign.

35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee

12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate

Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Voting results from the AGM
Read about the National Trust's 2025 Annual General Meeting and the results from the day.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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As a long time member & supporter of @nationaltrust.org.uk and their vision, policy & brilliant work, I’m very proud that the members are alive to the threat to Octavia Hill’s legacy posed by certain reactionary elements.
November 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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🇬🇧 They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

#WeWillRememberThem #LestWeForget
November 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Arts subjects at university are often maligned as ‘rip-off’ degrees but, as Warwick University’s Dr William Rupp argues, the liberal arts are where future leaders can learn to deal with uncertainty in our everchanging world.

www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...

#UKArts
November 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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A university without arts and languages is not a university.
Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'

Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Hero train staff member fighting for life after trying to stop knife attacker.

Willing you through. 🙏
November 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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🎃 Have a good Hallowe’en…
Trick or treat? 🍬
October 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Here's a round-up of my week in Parliament. 🌹
October 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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more peers:

Alf Dubs @alfdubs.bsky.social
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social
Baroness Barbara Keeley @baronesskeeley.bsky.social
Mike Katz @mike-katz.bsky.social
Kevin Brennan @kevinbrennanexmp.bsky.social
Baroness Ann Taylor @anntaylor-hol.bsky.social
George Foulkes @georgefo.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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📅 𝗢𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗘𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘

Every month I like to do a round-up of constituency casework.

𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝟳𝟵𝟱 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝗺𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺.

491 cases remain live on the system whilst 304 have been resolved and closed in October.

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October 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Last week, we officially launched Tokamak Energy K.K. in Tokyo, and this week, we were delighted to welcome UK Trade Envoy to Japan, @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social, to our Oxfordshire HQ to see first-hand the #fusion energy and #superconducting technology we're developing.
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.

Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October

Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.

Then share. Thank you.

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October 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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I’ve got straight to work with Keir Starmer to discuss how we will work closely together to defeat the forces of division and hate, and to reunite the country.
October 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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💬 𝐀𝐃𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 ‼️

Surgeries are held at locations across the constituency

𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠:
• Benefits & pensions
• ⁠Housing
• ⁠NHS
• ⁠Home Office
• ⁠Crime & policing
• ⁠And more…

𝐓𝐨 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮:
☎️ 𝟎𝟏𝟔𝟏 𝟑𝟐𝟎 𝟏𝟓𝟎𝟒
📧 𝐆𝐰𝐲𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐀@𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭.𝐮𝐤
October 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

(📸 Getty Images)
October 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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🔴The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks

Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage’s defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks
Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage's defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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To defeat the politics of hate and division, Labour must stand firm for what we believe and show whose side we are on.

My final message to Labour members and supporters covered by @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Vote before 12 noon tomorrow 23rd Oct

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
Lucy Powell says Labour needs to "do better" in final push to be Deputy Leader
"Trying to out Reform Reform doesn’t work"
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM