Kate Smart
@katesmart321.bsky.social
CEO @settled.bsky.social
Views here my own.
Views here my own.
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Mark Grantham (Canadian Artist, born 1966)
"February on June Street, Halifax", 2015.
Acrylic on Canvas Board, 24" × 18".
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"February on June Street, Halifax", 2015.
Acrylic on Canvas Board, 24" × 18".
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Mark Grantham (Canadian Artist, born 1966)
"February on June Street, Halifax", 2015.
Acrylic on Canvas Board, 24" × 18".
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"February on June Street, Halifax", 2015.
Acrylic on Canvas Board, 24" × 18".
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Lac Léman seen from below Tour de Gourze. December 2008.
#photography #landscape #snowscape #winter #trees #sunset #Vaud #Switzerland
#photography #landscape #snowscape #winter #trees #sunset #Vaud #Switzerland
December 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Lac Léman seen from below Tour de Gourze. December 2008.
#photography #landscape #snowscape #winter #trees #sunset #Vaud #Switzerland
#photography #landscape #snowscape #winter #trees #sunset #Vaud #Switzerland
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The IMA is marking its fifth year in operation by highlighting the ways in which EU and EEA EFTA citizens and their family members contribute to the UK and Gibraltar, helping both countries to grow and thrive.
https://orlo.uk/o8Rob
https://orlo.uk/o8Rob
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The IMA is marking its fifth year in operation by highlighting the ways in which EU and EEA EFTA citizens and their family members contribute to the UK and Gibraltar, helping both countries to grow and thrive.
https://orlo.uk/o8Rob
https://orlo.uk/o8Rob
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‘December Moon’ (2025)
The moon last night was absolutely amazing.
#ColorADay #YellowThu
#Moon #Sky #Photography
#EastCoastKin #Yellow
#SkyScape #PhotoHour
The moon last night was absolutely amazing.
#ColorADay #YellowThu
#Moon #Sky #Photography
#EastCoastKin #Yellow
#SkyScape #PhotoHour
December 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
‘December Moon’ (2025)
The moon last night was absolutely amazing.
#ColorADay #YellowThu
#Moon #Sky #Photography
#EastCoastKin #Yellow
#SkyScape #PhotoHour
The moon last night was absolutely amazing.
#ColorADay #YellowThu
#Moon #Sky #Photography
#EastCoastKin #Yellow
#SkyScape #PhotoHour
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GB News has paid “substantial” libel damages to a UK charity after airing false claims it had sent money to terrorist groups in the Middle East
pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
GB News pays substantial damages to Islamic Relief over false terrorism claim
GB News has paid "substantial" libel damages to a UK charity an interviewee falsely claimed had sent money to terrorist groups.
pressgazette.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
GB News has paid “substantial” libel damages to a UK charity after airing false claims it had sent money to terrorist groups in the Middle East
pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
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An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
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I see the Indy is also going with asylum seekers being “banned” from doing something they were being forced to do unwillingly in the first place, so presumably this is how the Home Office‘s press release is framing its own admissions of incompetence and waste
Asylum seekers banned from taking taxis in new government crackdown
Asylum seekers banned from taking taxis in new government crackdown
Asylum seekers banned from taking taxis in new government crackdown
www.independent.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I see the Indy is also going with asylum seekers being “banned” from doing something they were being forced to do unwillingly in the first place, so presumably this is how the Home Office‘s press release is framing its own admissions of incompetence and waste
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"With over 2.8 million across the country, Britain boasts roughly double the number of landlords as it does NHS staff, the country’s largest employer, while also outnumbering teachers 4 to 1. Yet this isn’t a singular class, but rather a motley bunch of part-timers", supported by Housing Benefit.
Can Britain escape its housing trap?
unherd.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"With over 2.8 million across the country, Britain boasts roughly double the number of landlords as it does NHS staff, the country’s largest employer, while also outnumbering teachers 4 to 1. Yet this isn’t a singular class, but rather a motley bunch of part-timers", supported by Housing Benefit.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Wonderful meeting in Cardiff with Leena Linnus, Head of the European Parliament in the UK, Typhaine Morillon & Sanna Kangasharju, members of the Senedd & many amazing civil society orgs and businesses working on citizens rights and on the economic aspect of EU-UK relations post-Brexit in Wales.🙏
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Wonderful meeting in Cardiff with Leena Linnus, Head of the European Parliament in the UK, Typhaine Morillon & Sanna Kangasharju, members of the Senedd & many amazing civil society orgs and businesses working on citizens rights and on the economic aspect of EU-UK relations post-Brexit in Wales.🙏
A privilege to visit the Ukraine library in Cardiff with Leena Linnus, Head of the European Parliament's office, who told members of the Ukraine community that she is a librarian's daughter.
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A privilege to visit the Ukraine library in Cardiff with Leena Linnus, Head of the European Parliament's office, who told members of the Ukraine community that she is a librarian's daughter.
A 30 miles per hour zone.
A pedestrian crossing showing green to cross with a pedestrian on the crossing.
The law allows a car carrying a duchess on a non-urgent journey, & accompanying police outriders, to travel at around 50 miles per hour & ignore red traffic lights.
www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
A pedestrian crossing showing green to cross with a pedestrian on the crossing.
The law allows a car carrying a duchess on a non-urgent journey, & accompanying police outriders, to travel at around 50 miles per hour & ignore red traffic lights.
www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
www.itv.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
A 30 miles per hour zone.
A pedestrian crossing showing green to cross with a pedestrian on the crossing.
The law allows a car carrying a duchess on a non-urgent journey, & accompanying police outriders, to travel at around 50 miles per hour & ignore red traffic lights.
www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
A pedestrian crossing showing green to cross with a pedestrian on the crossing.
The law allows a car carrying a duchess on a non-urgent journey, & accompanying police outriders, to travel at around 50 miles per hour & ignore red traffic lights.
www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
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Today, Settled's CEO, Kate Smart, & Service Manager (Wales), Rhys Evans, met with Member of the Senedd, Sioned Williams AS/MS, to discuss the importance of upholding human rights & the need for Settled's services to address the problems facing EU citizens, so that they can fully contribute to Wales.
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Today, Settled's CEO, Kate Smart, & Service Manager (Wales), Rhys Evans, met with Member of the Senedd, Sioned Williams AS/MS, to discuss the importance of upholding human rights & the need for Settled's services to address the problems facing EU citizens, so that they can fully contribute to Wales.
More than 70% of Ukrainians want to remain in the UK long-term when the war ends, finds research launched at parliament today by University of Birmingham (Displaced Ukrainians in the UK: Jones, Kogut & Kuznetsova)
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
More than 70% of Ukrainians want to remain in the UK long-term when the war ends, finds research launched at parliament today by University of Birmingham (Displaced Ukrainians in the UK: Jones, Kogut & Kuznetsova)
Good point from Jon - the already pressured Home Office casework departments will see a significant increase in their workloads, requiring substantial expenditure on additional caseworkers if chaos and excessive delays are to be avoided.
This won’t stop people seeking protection in the UK. It will make it harder for refugees to rebuild their lives, feel secure and contribute to their communities. It will create a load more work for the Home Office, reviewing claims every three years.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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 8:24 AM
Good point from Jon - the already pressured Home Office casework departments will see a significant increase in their workloads, requiring substantial expenditure on additional caseworkers if chaos and excessive delays are to be avoided.
Mark Drakeford addressing the UK-EU Domestic Advisory Group last evening, says Wales is 'an outward looking nation welcoming to others' and thanks those in Europe who are 'generous in continuing to work with us'. Good to attend for @settled.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Mark Drakeford addressing the UK-EU Domestic Advisory Group last evening, says Wales is 'an outward looking nation welcoming to others' and thanks those in Europe who are 'generous in continuing to work with us'. Good to attend for @settled.bsky.social
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🌍 “The infrastructures we built after WWII still matter, they’ve kept the world from chaos.”
@andrewstroehlein.bsky.social on why post-war institutions, from the UN to human rights frameworks, remain vital in 2025.
🎧 Watch The #ZNL Podcast → bit.ly/4oikeDU
@andrewstroehlein.bsky.social on why post-war institutions, from the UN to human rights frameworks, remain vital in 2025.
🎧 Watch The #ZNL Podcast → bit.ly/4oikeDU
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🌍 “The infrastructures we built after WWII still matter, they’ve kept the world from chaos.”
@andrewstroehlein.bsky.social on why post-war institutions, from the UN to human rights frameworks, remain vital in 2025.
🎧 Watch The #ZNL Podcast → bit.ly/4oikeDU
@andrewstroehlein.bsky.social on why post-war institutions, from the UN to human rights frameworks, remain vital in 2025.
🎧 Watch The #ZNL Podcast → bit.ly/4oikeDU
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Happy 56th anniversary to “Sesame Street,” which made its broadcast debut #OnThisDay in 1969.
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Happy 56th anniversary to “Sesame Street,” which made its broadcast debut #OnThisDay in 1969.
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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As always , only the comfiest spots will do . Thank you to @theresamcmanus.bsky.social for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay
November 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
As always , only the comfiest spots will do . Thank you to @theresamcmanus.bsky.social for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay
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The economy and labour market of the South Wales Valleys remain mired in difficulty, with just 46 jobs per 100 residents of working age, a report has stated
Report calls for urgent action to boost employment in South Wales Valleys
The economy and labour market of the South Wales Valleys remain mired in difficulty, with just 46 jobs per 100 residents of working age, a report has stated. Next Steps for the Valleys, the new report...
wp.me
November 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The economy and labour market of the South Wales Valleys remain mired in difficulty, with just 46 jobs per 100 residents of working age, a report has stated
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First Light on Primrose Lane, 2022, painting by Peak District artist Clare Allan. #WomensArt
November 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
First Light on Primrose Lane, 2022, painting by Peak District artist Clare Allan. #WomensArt