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Helen Kane
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Thought I'd give this a go. So far, so good. 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺
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RIP CHRIS REA (1951-2025)
December 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP
December 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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clairecopperman.bsky.social
YES!!!!!!!! Congratulations, Karen and Carlos 🍾🥂✨️
#Strictly
Karen Carney celebrating
December 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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helenebismarck.bsky.social
This is wonderful and also true.
The analogies you draw, the thoughts you suddely have, the roads you pursue, the structures you comprehend, simply because a piece of art or theatre shakes you up and makes you think differently.
harrywallop.co.uk Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 22d
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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barristersecret.bsky.social
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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thekentacorn.bsky.social
Ladies & Gentlemen, without further ado, let us present to you the 550 year old Arbour Oak in Wollaton Park, Nottingham
November 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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stellacreasy.bsky.social
Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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adapalmer.bsky.social
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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emergencybod.medsky.social
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.

Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.

A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Incredibly sad to learn of the death of Baroness Helen Newlove. She will be an enormous loss to politics, missed by all the victims and survivors she worked so hard to support and champion, and of course most acutely by her family and friends.

May her memory forever be a blessing ❤️
November 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
But that is not enough. No.10 should never have been in a position to install Gibb in the first place. It shouldn't control the board membership, the DG appointment, or the purse strings. What's required is genuine independence for the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
New York is a-changin'.
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Lovely to wake to the news that Zohran Mamdani won the New York Mayor election!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Zohran Mamdani: meteoric rise of New York’s visionary new mayor
Charismatic and relatable, the 34-year old energized voters – and provided a blueprint for other progressives to follow
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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clairecopperman.bsky.social
C'mon, New York! You've got this!

(Listen volume up ⬆️ for a banger of a song too.)
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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ICYMI This is an interesting reminder of the lengths women had to go to fight against Catholic Ireland in 1972. Mary McGee, the heroine who fought to end Ireland's ban on contraception. (it took more than 10 yrs more for "unmarried couples")
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Tributes paid after death of Mary McGee, who helped end Ireland’s ban on contraception
Mother-of-four brought legal case against government after customs seized her contraceptives package from UK
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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justsmudge.bsky.social
🌿☕Morning🌞

Hverdagslykke is Norwegian for everyday happiness & contentment in daily life

Like a warm cup of ☕, taking a deep breath, a walk in nature, having family time

A cultural concept encouraging being present in life's routines rather than major events to be happy

@susiedent.com #etymology
Calm and early snow scene in Norway. Remember to take a breath 🤗🫂
October 31, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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♥️ Billie Eilish announced that she would be donating $11.5 million of earnings from her "Hit Me Hard & Soft" tour to various organizations dedicated to food equity, climate justice, reducing carbon pollution, & combating the climate crisis. www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainmen...
October 31, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Went back to Prunella Scales's contribution to Barkworth's "About Acting" today. Not just because it is immensely funny and charming, but for the most unfussy, practical, and profound description of a proper acting process ever captured in print.

Huge condolences to Sam and her family and friends.
PB The voice of a part is very important to you, isn't it? PS I'm never happy until I have found the physical individuality of a part, which includes the voice, I suppose. I've got quite a useful, strong and variable voice, and quite a good ear both for regional dialects and for mannerisms of speech, which is probably just as well because I'm not very versatile physically: I'm quite short and I haven't got a very useful face. A critic very kindly wrote of me once that the six parts I played in one play were nicely differentiated vocally, but that I couldn't change my face, which was that of a worried hamster. PB PS Do you enjoy doing situation comedies? Oh yes, except that the half-hour episodes come round so quickly, once a week; and in Fawlty Towers I never felt ready to do it every Sunday night. But John Cleese gave me great courage. It was rather like working with a live machine-gun which you try to keep pointing away from you. But you feel you've got something to bash against and that's very comforting. Leonard Rossiter's the same. PS Well. A trivial example. I'm an aide-de-camp and I have to come in and say to the commanding officer, 'Good morning, sir. Here is the report from Major Smith. In it you will see that he estimates the enemy will be with us at approximately eight hundred hours tomorrow morning.' Now. Who am I? I am Lieutenant Bloggs. Which probably means that I have been trained to keep a stiff upper lip and not to show emotion of any kind. What do I want? (At Uta's classes you're taught always to look for a verb, never for a quality or an emotion.) I may want to do my duty, or to avoid showing fear, or perhaps I want my breakfast. What is the obstacle? Perhaps the CO is in a bad mood, perhaps I'm frightened of him or of the impending attack. So what do I do? I probably come in and mutter the line as quickly as possible and get out. It'll be over in two seconds but it will be true and at least it won't be over-acted. If you try for emotion, try to feel, it's a sure way of cutting off emotion altogether. Acting is doing.
October 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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davidheniguk.bsky.social
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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More politicians who don’t value education unless it makes them rich. Why do we have to endure this recycled ‘rip-off degrees’ narrative every single year? It’s as lazy as it is wrongheaded, but this time it comes with an added dash authoritarian paternalism. inews.co.uk/news/politic...
He continued: "I have long thought that in some cases, university actually degrades young people. It gives them too much freedom at a time when they don't know what to do with it, blunts the work ethic and gets them into bad habits."
October 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵

First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.
May 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Mandatory ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea
iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-a...
September 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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delafina777.bsky.social
So anyway, turns out plasma in menstrual blood can completely heal wounds in 24 hours.

hudson.org.au/news/womb-to...
September 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM