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Lucy Valiant
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Interested in reading, politics, walking, animals. Pleased that the UK has adults in charge, at last.
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Borrowed this book from our local library. Politics aside, it is a great read. Great solutions suggested.

www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Care-why...
Why I Care: And why care matters : Davey, Sir Ed: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Why I Care: And why care matters : Davey, Sir Ed: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
August 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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@theecologist.org
May 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
May 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
lucyvaliant.bsky.social
Shared from 'Really American' on Facebook.

American English is brutal. One silent K in “Knight,”
just one in “Knickerbocker,”
but three silent Ks in “Republican.”
May 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
lucyvaliant.bsky.social
What is happening is frightening. How this US government can cause so much damage. Librarians are often the good guys.
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · May 1
More than 130,000 government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book burning.” A group of librarians and archivists is fighting back.
The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
nyer.cm
May 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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chcowgirl.bsky.social
Jewish literature acknowledges more than two genders as do most indigenous cultures
March 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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donald-tusk.bsky.social
Dear allies, the investigation of the Lithuanian prosecutor’s office has confirmed our suspicions that responsible for setting fires to shopping centres in Vilnius and Warsaw are the Russian secret services. Good to know before negotiations. Such is the nature of this state.
March 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
lucyvaliant.bsky.social
A timely reminder from Roald Dahl
lethalityjane.bsky.social ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · Feb 15
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
lucyvaliant.bsky.social
Much needed
coopparty.party.coop Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · Feb 26
🚨 BREAKING: This week, the Government introduced to Parliament three vital steps to support our shopworkers in the Crime and Policing Bill, delivering on commitments made to make our high streets safer.
February 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Never forget! Fights can be won peacefully.
gillu3.bsky.social Gill @gillu3.bsky.social · Feb 22
Dear America, work the problem!
Best wishes,
The World.
February 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Keir Starmer ...WHY can't we rejoin? What is stopping us from rejoining? Give us logical reasons why not.. DONT bring the public into it 63% of the population belive leaving the EU was a mistake #ToriesGone
#HopeNotHate
#RejoinEU
#BrexitTheElephant
February 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Fiona Hill is a longtime expert on Russia & Putin who explains how the US political system is drifting into autocracy.

Key: Don't watch a country’s titular leaders. Watch the billionaires, the oligarchs. They're driven entirely by the peer group they're in—an extraordinarily small group of people.
‘Everything Is Subservient to the Big Guy’: Fiona Hill on Trump and America’s Emerging Oligarchy
The longtime Russia expert explains why Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are all talking to each other.
www.politico.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Fiona Hill, US director of national security council & presidential advisor to 3 American presidents warned us about Musk being a Kremlin messenger in 2022 too

www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Fiona Hill: ‘Elon Musk Is Transmitting a Message for Putin’
Eight months into Russia’s war against Ukraine, POLITICO talks to the Russia analyst about whether Putin’s aims are evolving and what it would take to end the war.
www.politico.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
lucyvaliant.bsky.social
Very apt!
babs05.bsky.social Babs 🩵🐝⌛️🦋🔻 @babs05.bsky.social · Feb 3
I remember saying something along these lines to my family when #GazaGenocide started.

via @matthaig.bsky.social on Instagram
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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. J.R.R. Tolkien
February 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Accounts for me Carol Vorderman now

Blue Sky @carolvorderman.bsky.social
Threads @carolvorders
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Enjoying this
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August 17, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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Well done. #Labour #WinterFuelPayment
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Sep 10
53 Labour MPs didn't vote to support the Government's plans to cut winter fuel payment support
September 10, 2024 at 3:57 PM
lucyvaliant.bsky.social
Larry the Cat is now on BlueSky! Huraah!!!!
number10cat.bsky.social Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · Aug 16
For those no longer on the other place, here's a treat for you. I asked "Jim'll Paint it" to do me hosting PMQs with an opposition party of posh dogs. He nailed it.
September 3, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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Please fund #libraries and save them.
lemoustier.bsky.social Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · Sep 3
We lost our town library as a community centre with large spaces for kids sessions, free computer facilities etc, when the underfunded council sold their offices, moved into library building, and forced the library to squeeze into the tiny town museum. So much loss
danherb10.bsky.social Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · Sep 3
Anyone in the UK who has had the slightest contact with their local public library will already know this.
Public libraries have been ground into the ground by a chronic lack of underfunding whilst being expected to become an extension of social services.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
September 3, 2024 at 6:33 PM
lucyvaliant.bsky.social
The Galloway Hoard in the Guardian
September 3, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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Saved to read later.
September 3, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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Book by Caroline Lucas should be good. Must order it.
iantyorks.bsky.social Ian Thompson @iantyorks.bsky.social · Aug 17
Thoughtful book by Caroline Lucas (ex-Green Party MP), using literature to reclaim England’s story from right-wingers. Others have promoted a radical version of England, but this is contemporary and passionate
#books #England #storytelling
September 3, 2024 at 6:13 PM
lucyvaliant.bsky.social
#Water
rachelsalvidge.bsky.social Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · Aug 21
BREAKING: The human tornado that is Feargal Sharkey is organising a March for Clean Water on Sat 26 October 2024, in Parliament Square in London...
August 29, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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zealerous.bsky.social cool calm and collected @zealerous.bsky.social · Aug 22
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August 26, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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#Brexit #Tories
andrewprlevi.bsky.social Andrew Levi @andrewprlevi.bsky.social · Aug 23
Tim Leunig in the FT is right about Brexit.

But it’s far worse.

Brexit ripped us out of our $19 trillion GDP domestic market & reduced us to one a 6th of it, thumped our economy, fractured the UK, threw our governance into chaos, & generated perilous geopolitical effects.

A🧵/1.
August 26, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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A fifth of patients in some areas of the North of England have Long Covid, according to research involving our REVAL colleague Luke Munford

www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/regional-ine...
Regional inequalities in Long Covid rates revealed - Health Equity North
Read the full report here A fifth of patients in some areas of the North of England have Long Covid, according to research released today (Friday 23rd August 2024). Navigating the Long Haul: Understan...
www.healthequitynorth.co.uk
August 25, 2024 at 9:21 AM