Dymvue
@dymvue.bsky.social
Retired librarian. Wrote 3 books (see pinned post). Now carer for OH with dementia. Likes music, books, cats, choirs & silent films.
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Dymvue
@dymvue.bsky.social
· Oct 17
From Doodlebugs to Devon: Amazon.co.uk: Shaw, Sarah O: 9798223341840: Books
Buy From Doodlebugs to Devon by Shaw, Sarah O (ISBN: 9798223341840) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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From Doodlebugs to Devon: one woman's letters & curious wartime tales
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C8Y4RMHV/
The secret diary of a 1970s secretary: romance in a BBC lift
www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Diary...
Short skirts and shorthand: what being a secretary was really like.
www.amazon.co.uk/Short-Skirts...
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C8Y4RMHV/
The secret diary of a 1970s secretary: romance in a BBC lift
www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Diary...
Short skirts and shorthand: what being a secretary was really like.
www.amazon.co.uk/Short-Skirts...
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You know, I was fine with the moving of the pension age gradually from 60 to 65. I thought that was fair. I wasn't happy though with the way Cameron ramped it up to be much steeper. My friend who is just over 3 months older than me got her pension a full year earlier
'Irresponsible Waspis have no right to state pension compensation. The women who missed out when the retirement age changed should have checked how much they would get and when' | ✍️ Tom McPhail
Irresponsible Waspis have no right to state pension compensation
The women who missed out when the retirement age changed should have checked how much they would get and when, says savings expert Tom McPhail
www.thetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
You know, I was fine with the moving of the pension age gradually from 60 to 65. I thought that was fair. I wasn't happy though with the way Cameron ramped it up to be much steeper. My friend who is just over 3 months older than me got her pension a full year earlier
I won't hear a word against Streeting - he was a student who was an excellent user of the library I used to run!
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I won't hear a word against Streeting - he was a student who was an excellent user of the library I used to run!
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Maybe it's time for a ceasefire in the culture wars. If people stop engaging in bigoted and hypocritical language and practices, I'll stop calling them bigots and hypocrites. Deal?
November 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Maybe it's time for a ceasefire in the culture wars. If people stop engaging in bigoted and hypocritical language and practices, I'll stop calling them bigots and hypocrites. Deal?
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Tony Blair and David Cameron were chosen by Party Members. Gordon Brown, Theresa May, and Rishi Sunak were chosen by MPs.
It’s not bad luck it’s structural.
Parties now select leaders based on direct democracy by absolute freaks, party members, and MPs are doing one of the worst jobs imaginable (with a genuine risk of death!) for the same money a supermarket manager or trainee lawyer gets.
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Parties now select leaders based on direct democracy by absolute freaks, party members, and MPs are doing one of the worst jobs imaginable (with a genuine risk of death!) for the same money a supermarket manager or trainee lawyer gets.
bsky.app/profile/will...
Nope - we've really just had the most atrocious run of bad luck when it came to Prime Ministers. You can see that in the most competent politician since 2007 (whilst PM) has the smallest drop off.
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Tony Blair and David Cameron were chosen by Party Members. Gordon Brown, Theresa May, and Rishi Sunak were chosen by MPs.
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At Byline Times we’ve published dozens of articles on Sir Robbie Gibb’s role at GB News, the Jewish Chronicle, and of course BBC News for nearly five years
Tomorrow’s headlines today
bylinetimes.com?s=Sir+Robbie...
Tomorrow’s headlines today
bylinetimes.com?s=Sir+Robbie...
You searched for Sir Robbie Gibb – Byline Times
bylinetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
At Byline Times we’ve published dozens of articles on Sir Robbie Gibb’s role at GB News, the Jewish Chronicle, and of course BBC News for nearly five years
Tomorrow’s headlines today
bylinetimes.com?s=Sir+Robbie...
Tomorrow’s headlines today
bylinetimes.com?s=Sir+Robbie...
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NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Just been practising Rossini Petite Messe Solonelle and now wish to bathe my tonsils in neat alcohol.
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Just been practising Rossini Petite Messe Solonelle and now wish to bathe my tonsils in neat alcohol.
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New article, definitely something for the social history fans - the monkey parade (or 'monkey run'). Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”.
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
Before Tinder, there was the Monkey Parade…
How our grandparents and their parents found romance.
davehaslam.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
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The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
There are those who will not be satisfied until Legatum have taken over the BBC and asset stripped it.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
There are those who will not be satisfied until Legatum have taken over the BBC and asset stripped it.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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The bbc has a lot of failings but if it goes we loose
Drama
Radio
News
Comedy
And so much more
Drama
Radio
News
Comedy
And so much more
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
The bbc has a lot of failings but if it goes we loose
Drama
Radio
News
Comedy
And so much more
Drama
Radio
News
Comedy
And so much more
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Ha!
The van was within 100 yards of us mid-afternoon
Then 20 miles away
Just had reassuring (not) message that it will be delivered today 😳
Bit late, innit?
Moral of the story - don’t use bloody Amazon
The van was within 100 yards of us mid-afternoon
Then 20 miles away
Just had reassuring (not) message that it will be delivered today 😳
Bit late, innit?
Moral of the story - don’t use bloody Amazon
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Ha!
The van was within 100 yards of us mid-afternoon
Then 20 miles away
Just had reassuring (not) message that it will be delivered today 😳
Bit late, innit?
Moral of the story - don’t use bloody Amazon
The van was within 100 yards of us mid-afternoon
Then 20 miles away
Just had reassuring (not) message that it will be delivered today 😳
Bit late, innit?
Moral of the story - don’t use bloody Amazon
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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
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Tv moment of the year David and Nick comforting Alan Carr for winning celebrity Traitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Tv moment of the year David and Nick comforting Alan Carr for winning celebrity Traitors
Refirm will love this
When John Whittingdale was Tory Culture Secretary he changed BBC Board appointments to 25% of governors being appointed by the government to 75% - immediately giving the politicians to pack the board with people aligned with their partisan agenda
Hence Gibb-gate
Hence Gibb-gate
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Refirm will love this
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Astonishing video, worth watching in full.
While agreeing in the round,
I've found this (below) both reassuring and highlighting of the need for constant vigilance. There is no perfect end state. See if you can see where the 'thousand year reich' occurs (also, that Roman Empire lasted quite a while).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P...
I've found this (below) both reassuring and highlighting of the need for constant vigilance. There is no perfect end state. See if you can see where the 'thousand year reich' occurs (also, that Roman Empire lasted quite a while).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P...
The History of Europe: Every Year
YouTube video by Cottereau
m.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Astonishing video, worth watching in full.
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Sat in a restaurant last year listening to someone talk about how they were getting ChatGPT to do their assignments for *an English masters they were doing part-time*. I still think about it occasionally.
Dude in the row in front of mine on a flight is literally producing the entire marketing campaign of a _________ fellowship using ChatGPT. Coolio…
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Sat in a restaurant last year listening to someone talk about how they were getting ChatGPT to do their assignments for *an English masters they were doing part-time*. I still think about it occasionally.
BBC should sue for libel 😉 By the way do we have an ambassador in Washington?
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
BBC should sue for libel 😉 By the way do we have an ambassador in Washington?
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It was utterly, completely, straightforward. And literally *nobody* thought it was clever and deep when Paul McCartney did the "dream within a dream within a dream" thing in Give My Regards To Broad Street -- they just thought it fatuous. Consistency, people!
does anyone else remember the way inception was sold as this super confusing movie? and that newspapers were printing visual guides on what the plot was? and then you saw the movie and it was actually really straight forward?
what was that about
what was that about
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
It was utterly, completely, straightforward. And literally *nobody* thought it was clever and deep when Paul McCartney did the "dream within a dream within a dream" thing in Give My Regards To Broad Street -- they just thought it fatuous. Consistency, people!