Clare Mulcahey
@claremulcahey.bsky.social
Design enthusiast, part time potter, shop owner & lover of good ( & sometimes bad) things.
My super - talented daughter taking early steps into the word of journalism . www.thetimes.com/article/6cd1...
Scotland on screen: film and TV locations we bet you won’t know
Everyone knows Glenfinnan viaduct from Harry Potter and Ardross Castle from The Traitors — but how about these unsung backdrops from the big screen?
www.thetimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
My super - talented daughter taking early steps into the word of journalism . www.thetimes.com/article/6cd1...
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February 20, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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A beautiful hand blown bud vase - perfect for your hand picked flowers. #intrepidhome #budvase #glassvase #flowers
February 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
A beautiful hand blown bud vase - perfect for your hand picked flowers. #intrepidhome #budvase #glassvase #flowers
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The Ancestors of Christ: Manasseh, Amon, 1512 #highrenaissance #michelangelo
February 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Ancestors of Christ: Manasseh, Amon, 1512 #highrenaissance #michelangelo
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The Tide (1966) by US painter Renée Radell #WomensArt #Monday
February 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The Tide (1966) by US painter Renée Radell #WomensArt #Monday
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UK lawyers defending Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai are facing threats of rape, dismemberment, and death—believed to be from the Chinese state. Intimidation tactics like this threaten justice everywhere. ✊ @caoilfhionn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
UK-based lawyers for Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai targeted by Chinese state
Exclusive: Barristers at Doughty Street Chambers say they have been subject to surveillance, hacking and rape threats
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
UK lawyers defending Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai are facing threats of rape, dismemberment, and death—believed to be from the Chinese state. Intimidation tactics like this threaten justice everywhere. ✊ @caoilfhionn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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The Eastgate Theatre in Peebles is a gem & does so much to promote the arts. Outrageously, its core state funding is ending. Petition below👇
PS, @angusrobertson.bsky.social, please make good on your pledge that “Scotland’s arts and culture are at the very soul of our nation"...
chng.it/8HXCjx7F6x
PS, @angusrobertson.bsky.social, please make good on your pledge that “Scotland’s arts and culture are at the very soul of our nation"...
chng.it/8HXCjx7F6x
Urge Scottish Borders Council to Retain Core Funding for Eastgate Theatre
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
chng.it
February 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The Eastgate Theatre in Peebles is a gem & does so much to promote the arts. Outrageously, its core state funding is ending. Petition below👇
PS, @angusrobertson.bsky.social, please make good on your pledge that “Scotland’s arts and culture are at the very soul of our nation"...
chng.it/8HXCjx7F6x
PS, @angusrobertson.bsky.social, please make good on your pledge that “Scotland’s arts and culture are at the very soul of our nation"...
chng.it/8HXCjx7F6x
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Study of a figure for Hell https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/study-of-a-figure-for-hell
February 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Study of a figure for Hell https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/study-of-a-figure-for-hell
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Beautifully sculpted bull's head on the 1870s former John Inglis and Company tannery and leather warehouse building on Saint Andrew's Square in Glasgow.
#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #bull #animalsculpture #calton #architecturephotography
#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #bull #animalsculpture #calton #architecturephotography
February 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Beautifully sculpted bull's head on the 1870s former John Inglis and Company tannery and leather warehouse building on Saint Andrew's Square in Glasgow.
#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #bull #animalsculpture #calton #architecturephotography
#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #bull #animalsculpture #calton #architecturephotography
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Belle Baranceanu
The Yellow Robe
1927
The Yellow Robe
1927
February 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Belle Baranceanu
The Yellow Robe
1927
The Yellow Robe
1927
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'Candlemas.' (c1901) Marianne Stokes (an important woman artist of her time) painted this work in Holland and recalls Vermeer as well as more modern impressionist images of Dutch country girls.
February 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
'Candlemas.' (c1901) Marianne Stokes (an important woman artist of her time) painted this work in Holland and recalls Vermeer as well as more modern impressionist images of Dutch country girls.
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January 31, 2025 at 6:53 AM
A vital service - the BBC abandoning what it does best.
January 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
A vital service - the BBC abandoning what it does best.
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How about this for a dramatic portrait! The Duchess of Devonshire, depicted as Cynthia, the goddess of the moon, breaking through the clouds / painted by the remarkable Maria Cosway in 1782 (Chatsworth House)
January 29, 2025 at 6:16 AM
How about this for a dramatic portrait! The Duchess of Devonshire, depicted as Cynthia, the goddess of the moon, breaking through the clouds / painted by the remarkable Maria Cosway in 1782 (Chatsworth House)
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Lovely milk jug hand thrown in our pottery studio upstairs at Intrepid and decorated with incised lines and an old copper glaze. #handmade #pottery #ceramics #madeinscotland #intrepidhome
January 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Lovely milk jug hand thrown in our pottery studio upstairs at Intrepid and decorated with incised lines and an old copper glaze. #handmade #pottery #ceramics #madeinscotland #intrepidhome
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"Vera had also noticed the purple dress; it was uniquely hideous, festooned with massive bows and encumbered by a bizarre scalloped train like a dragon's tail. It might be worn with panache by a mad old person whose brain had been jumbled by hunting accidents...but by a young girl never."
January 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Vera had also noticed the purple dress; it was uniquely hideous, festooned with massive bows and encumbered by a bizarre scalloped train like a dragon's tail. It might be worn with panache by a mad old person whose brain had been jumbled by hunting accidents...but by a young girl never."
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Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
And all the devils are here.
January 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
And all the devils are here.
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“The removal of Radio 3 drama effectively wipes out the only platform for 90-minute full-length radio plays in the UK, which the BBC has pioneered for years…”
Equity launches campaign to Save Audio Drama at the BBC
Equity has launched a campaign against proposed cuts to Audio Drama on BBC Radio 3. We have joined with the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and the Society of Authors to launch a petition calling on T...
www.equity.org.uk
January 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
“The removal of Radio 3 drama effectively wipes out the only platform for 90-minute full-length radio plays in the UK, which the BBC has pioneered for years…”
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
13/20
#Books
13/20
#Books
January 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
13/20
#Books
13/20
#Books
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This is probably the most important domestic political story at the moment. Gilt yields being this high is going to kill the already shaky public finances. It risks making an already difficult spending review impossible.
UK’s Highest Debt Costs Since 1998 Risk More Labour Tax Hikes
“If market pricing sticks then the fiscal rules are probably going to be breached and they’re going to have to come back and do more,” says Jamie Rush, Bloomberg’s chief European economist
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
“If market pricing sticks then the fiscal rules are probably going to be breached and they’re going to have to come back and do more,” says Jamie Rush, Bloomberg’s chief European economist
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
UK Debt Costs Hit Highest Since 1998 as Issuance Flood Begins
The UK’s long-term borrowing costs surged to the highest level in more than a quarter of a century, raising the prospect of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves needing to raise taxes again in or...
www.bloomberg.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This is probably the most important domestic political story at the moment. Gilt yields being this high is going to kill the already shaky public finances. It risks making an already difficult spending review impossible.
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A good question from @thedauk.bsky.social
Why do we have a desperate shortage of GP’s when there are 3,500 under and unemployed GP’s? It makes no sense
dauk.org/work-with-gp...
Why do we have a desperate shortage of GP’s when there are 3,500 under and unemployed GP’s? It makes no sense
dauk.org/work-with-gp...
January 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
A good question from @thedauk.bsky.social
Why do we have a desperate shortage of GP’s when there are 3,500 under and unemployed GP’s? It makes no sense
dauk.org/work-with-gp...
Why do we have a desperate shortage of GP’s when there are 3,500 under and unemployed GP’s? It makes no sense
dauk.org/work-with-gp...
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Very well worth reading, especially if you are concerned about the crisis of stupidity in our world, and cheating too.
hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/why-ai-is-...
hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/why-ai-is-...
Why AI is Destroying Academic Integrity
It’s because students prefer The Experience Machine
hilariusbookbinder.substack.com
January 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Very well worth reading, especially if you are concerned about the crisis of stupidity in our world, and cheating too.
hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/why-ai-is-...
hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/why-ai-is-...
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Both my kids have benefitted/are benefitting from being able to study Latin because of ISSP - a partnership between York state and private schools. Access to Latin/classics shouldn’t be just restricted to those who can pay for it.
Only 5 signatures needed to 2,300 in the Save the Latin Excellence Programme in state schools Petition. Please, share and sign.
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Sign the Petition
Save the Latin Excellence Programme - keep teaching Latin in state schools
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January 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Both my kids have benefitted/are benefitting from being able to study Latin because of ISSP - a partnership between York state and private schools. Access to Latin/classics shouldn’t be just restricted to those who can pay for it.
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'The trans-sexual bandwagon is a form of quasi-religious cult.'
✍️ Richard Dawkins
✍️ Richard Dawkins
The myth of the God-shaped hole
Of course I’m a cultural Christian. Always have been. Packed off to Anglican schools, I was confirmed when too young to know better
www.spectator.co.uk
January 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
'The trans-sexual bandwagon is a form of quasi-religious cult.'
✍️ Richard Dawkins
✍️ Richard Dawkins