Laura-Elseplace
@laura-elseplace.bsky.social
I bake and knit and sew and grow edible things and live quietly and am happily married and will believe in egalitarian freedom til my last breath.
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The government should be ashamed that its migration policies are being cheered on by Tommy Robinson and Reform.
Instead of standing up to anti-migrant hate, this is laying the foundations for the far-right.
I questioned the Home Secretary on how she can be proposing such obviously cruel policies.
Instead of standing up to anti-migrant hate, this is laying the foundations for the far-right.
I questioned the Home Secretary on how she can be proposing such obviously cruel policies.
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The government should be ashamed that its migration policies are being cheered on by Tommy Robinson and Reform.
Instead of standing up to anti-migrant hate, this is laying the foundations for the far-right.
I questioned the Home Secretary on how she can be proposing such obviously cruel policies.
Instead of standing up to anti-migrant hate, this is laying the foundations for the far-right.
I questioned the Home Secretary on how she can be proposing such obviously cruel policies.
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Alastair Campbell, "Of the mistakes I have made, the biggest is Brexit..It has made us al weaker and poorer..A campaign won by liars and conmen"
From a hypothetical scenario of what AC would do if he was PM
From a hypothetical scenario of what AC would do if he was PM
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Alastair Campbell, "Of the mistakes I have made, the biggest is Brexit..It has made us al weaker and poorer..A campaign won by liars and conmen"
From a hypothetical scenario of what AC would do if he was PM
From a hypothetical scenario of what AC would do if he was PM
Yes! Very much!
A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Yes! Very much!
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The modern world in old Ladybird.
Hovercraft on the Thames, 1972
Artist: Frank Humphris
Hovercraft on the Thames, 1972
Artist: Frank Humphris
November 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The modern world in old Ladybird.
Hovercraft on the Thames, 1972
Artist: Frank Humphris
Hovercraft on the Thames, 1972
Artist: Frank Humphris
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Labour's MP for Folkestone says the government has taken "the wrong turning" on its plans for asylum seekers.
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Labour's MP for Folkestone says the government has taken "the wrong turning" on its plans for asylum seekers.
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
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The Prescott memo which sparked chaos at the BBC was in no sense a rigorous, systematic or scientific document. All it did was cherrypick a few examples of alleged bias, as well as a couple of mistakes. So why isn’t the memo being put under greater scrutiny, asks @stephencushion.bsky.social?
BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands
The Prescott memo contained no research questions or objectives, method, sample, time frame or, crucially, analytical framework for examining output.
theconversation.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The Prescott memo which sparked chaos at the BBC was in no sense a rigorous, systematic or scientific document. All it did was cherrypick a few examples of alleged bias, as well as a couple of mistakes. So why isn’t the memo being put under greater scrutiny, asks @stephencushion.bsky.social?
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I really cannot overstate how much you should read this book, might be the best bit of non fiction I've read this year
November 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I really cannot overstate how much you should read this book, might be the best bit of non fiction I've read this year
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Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
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Shabana Mahmood: immigration is tearing Britain apart.
Me: the constant politicisation of immigration to appeal to base racist instincts to cover up the constant failures and weakness of central government is tearing Britain apart.
Me: the constant politicisation of immigration to appeal to base racist instincts to cover up the constant failures and weakness of central government is tearing Britain apart.
November 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Shabana Mahmood: immigration is tearing Britain apart.
Me: the constant politicisation of immigration to appeal to base racist instincts to cover up the constant failures and weakness of central government is tearing Britain apart.
Me: the constant politicisation of immigration to appeal to base racist instincts to cover up the constant failures and weakness of central government is tearing Britain apart.
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
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Hadn't clocked until this tweet that this is true of every defeated Labour government other than New Labour: more votes in defeat in 1951 than in victory in 1945, more in 1970 than in 1964. And frankly, whether they win or lose next time, would bet large amounts will get more votes than 2024.
Labour got more votes in 1979 then they did in Oct 1974.
November 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Hadn't clocked until this tweet that this is true of every defeated Labour government other than New Labour: more votes in defeat in 1951 than in victory in 1945, more in 1970 than in 1964. And frankly, whether they win or lose next time, would bet large amounts will get more votes than 2024.
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Without asylum:
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Without asylum:
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
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Le peuple, par sa faute, a perdu
La confiance du gouvernement
Et ce n’est qu’en travaillant doublement
Qu’il pourra la regagner.
Ne serait-il pas plus simple
Pour le gouvernement
De dissoudre le peuple
Et d’en élire un autre ?
Bertolt Brecht, LA SOLUTION
Source : www.crcrosnier.fr/mur/palp/bre...
La confiance du gouvernement
Et ce n’est qu’en travaillant doublement
Qu’il pourra la regagner.
Ne serait-il pas plus simple
Pour le gouvernement
De dissoudre le peuple
Et d’en élire un autre ?
Bertolt Brecht, LA SOLUTION
Source : www.crcrosnier.fr/mur/palp/bre...
November 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Le peuple, par sa faute, a perdu
La confiance du gouvernement
Et ce n’est qu’en travaillant doublement
Qu’il pourra la regagner.
Ne serait-il pas plus simple
Pour le gouvernement
De dissoudre le peuple
Et d’en élire un autre ?
Bertolt Brecht, LA SOLUTION
Source : www.crcrosnier.fr/mur/palp/bre...
La confiance du gouvernement
Et ce n’est qu’en travaillant doublement
Qu’il pourra la regagner.
Ne serait-il pas plus simple
Pour le gouvernement
De dissoudre le peuple
Et d’en élire un autre ?
Bertolt Brecht, LA SOLUTION
Source : www.crcrosnier.fr/mur/palp/bre...
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Every single media lawyer I have spoken with this weeks agree that the BBC is doing exactly the right thing in admitting a mistake without admitting liability.
What serious lawyer would ever advise issuing an apology while there’s an imminent legal threat? How did the BBC not have lines and briefing ready?
Is it even capable of fighting a case when some near its top seem not to want it to win?
Is it even capable of fighting a case when some near its top seem not to want it to win?
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Every single media lawyer I have spoken with this weeks agree that the BBC is doing exactly the right thing in admitting a mistake without admitting liability.
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'Road to the Farm.' (1944) I find it difficult to think of any British landscape painter of Rowland Hilder's generation (he was born in 1905) whose work is as widely known but whose name is not. His work touched a strain of nostalgia for an unchanged and unchanging landscape.
November 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
'Road to the Farm.' (1944) I find it difficult to think of any British landscape painter of Rowland Hilder's generation (he was born in 1905) whose work is as widely known but whose name is not. His work touched a strain of nostalgia for an unchanged and unchanging landscape.
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Jobs for pocket money
(Helping at Home, 1961)
Artist: Harry Wingfield
(Helping at Home, 1961)
Artist: Harry Wingfield
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Jobs for pocket money
(Helping at Home, 1961)
Artist: Harry Wingfield
(Helping at Home, 1961)
Artist: Harry Wingfield
I grew up with a lot of people around my academic family who had fled various regimes of the 1970s and 1980s- every one of them was a real asset to any nation. We knew them well, over years an years- I can't understand why so many people have such fearful ideas about refugees...
And a reminder. There is no evidence that most of those seeking asylum are economic migrants. fullfact.org/immigration/...
No evidence ‘vast majority’ of people crossing Channel in small boats are economic migrants – Full Fact
Research indicates that the majority of people crossing the Channel go on to be granted asylum, but the full picture is not covered by official statistics.
fullfact.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I grew up with a lot of people around my academic family who had fled various regimes of the 1970s and 1980s- every one of them was a real asset to any nation. We knew them well, over years an years- I can't understand why so many people have such fearful ideas about refugees...
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My mum has been making needle felted mice for a few years and enjoys challenging herself with new themes and ideas. She's just set up her first exhibition at the stately home she volunteers at, with a family of period mice. Incredible.
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
My mum has been making needle felted mice for a few years and enjoys challenging herself with new themes and ideas. She's just set up her first exhibition at the stately home she volunteers at, with a family of period mice. Incredible.
Spain: I am so sorry. I am apologising as hard as I can for these pathetic morons who are, I am ashamed and embarrassed to admit, my fellow-British people...
I am so, so sorry...
I am so, so sorry...
It's real, and it's mind-blowing.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Spain: I am so sorry. I am apologising as hard as I can for these pathetic morons who are, I am ashamed and embarrassed to admit, my fellow-British people...
I am so, so sorry...
I am so, so sorry...
I'm interested an amused by how much I like this painting despite the sky being that specific blue that I really dislike!
It's early morning light, though- like Turner, he has painted the air...
It's early morning light, though- like Turner, he has painted the air...
'Early Morning near Kentish Town,'
Algernon Newton's work is one version of the English view, and at the very opposite end of Constable and Turner, there is also something mysterious in his art, something modernist, a kind of wit. This painting dates from around 1930.
Algernon Newton's work is one version of the English view, and at the very opposite end of Constable and Turner, there is also something mysterious in his art, something modernist, a kind of wit. This painting dates from around 1930.
November 15, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I'm interested an amused by how much I like this painting despite the sky being that specific blue that I really dislike!
It's early morning light, though- like Turner, he has painted the air...
It's early morning light, though- like Turner, he has painted the air...
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Cocaine - just say no 😂
Piers Morgan should be the next BBC director general, Michael Gove has said 👀
Michael Gove calls for Piers Morgan to take over as director general of BBC
www.thenational.scot
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Cocaine - just say no 😂
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Ooh, the first edition of "Century of the Typewriter" by Wilfred Beeching (1974) is on archive.org! Probably still in copyright in the UK, but Beeching died in 2000 and I *urgently* need to read more about Italian hydraulic typewriters of the Mussolini era than is in my abridged 1990s edition ...
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Ooh, the first edition of "Century of the Typewriter" by Wilfred Beeching (1974) is on archive.org! Probably still in copyright in the UK, but Beeching died in 2000 and I *urgently* need to read more about Italian hydraulic typewriters of the Mussolini era than is in my abridged 1990s edition ...
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In December 1966 the original Aviemore centre, the UK's first all-weather resort, was opened. The project was overseen by Lord Fraser of Allander, and cost £2.5 million to complete.
Highland Holiday Centre (1966)
YouTube video by British Pathé
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
In December 1966 the original Aviemore centre, the UK's first all-weather resort, was opened. The project was overseen by Lord Fraser of Allander, and cost £2.5 million to complete.