Sarah Hughes
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‘Once a fortnight would save people hundreds’: how to make your bike last longer, according to experts
‘Once a fortnight would save people hundreds’: how to make your bike last longer, according to experts
From avoiding overtightened bolts to giving it a good clean, here are the easy and affordable habits mechanics swear by
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
‘Once a fortnight would save people hundreds’: how to make your bike last longer, according to experts
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‘Why would you take away a parking place?’: the city where anyone can build an urban oasis
‘Why would you take away a parking place?’: the city where anyone can build an urban oasis
Grätzloasen – low-cost, urban ‘parklets’ built by volunteers – are on the rise in Vienna as sceptics are being won over by the splash of welcome greenery and boost to community spirits
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
‘Why would you take away a parking place?’: the city where anyone can build an urban oasis
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Being in nature is great for your brain. Scientists are trying to understand exactly why.
Why Being in Nature Boosts Your Attention
Being in nature is great for your brain. Experts are trying to figure out why.
nyti.ms
August 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Being in nature is great for your brain. Scientists are trying to understand exactly why.
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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe kicks off today. Here are some picks to watch for from the more than 3,000 shows in the arts extravaganza, including comedy, dance, theater and some gloriously weird spectacles.
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025: What to Watch
Some picks from the more than 3,000 shows in the Scottish arts extravaganza, including comedy, dance, theater and some gloriously weird spectacles.
nyti.ms
August 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe kicks off today. Here are some picks to watch for from the more than 3,000 shows in the arts extravaganza, including comedy, dance, theater and some gloriously weird spectacles.
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What's the point in insisting in covering the news in a strictly sober fashion when the news itself is wildly drunk? It's like sending the ballet critic to cover a cage fight.
July 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
What's the point in insisting in covering the news in a strictly sober fashion when the news itself is wildly drunk? It's like sending the ballet critic to cover a cage fight.
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
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Greyscale and prune your algorithm: ‘digital nutritionist’ offers advice on cutting down screen time
Greyscale and prune your algorithm: ‘digital nutritionist’ offers advice on cutting down screen time
Kaitlyn Regehr says parents worrying about their children need first to look at their own usage
Switching off the colours on your phone and spending half an hour a week pruning your algorithm can help consumers control and improve their online media diet, according to a professor turned “digital nutritionist”.
These two measures, otherwise known as greyscaling and algorithmic resistance, are among a number of recommendations from Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, an associate professor at University College London and a leading expert in digital literacy. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Greyscale and prune your algorithm: ‘digital nutritionist’ offers advice on cutting down screen time
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Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
August 15, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
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Our A-Z resource of 1,000 women artists features a fraction of the women artists on Art UK. Use our Curations tool to showcase your favourite #WomenArtists!
Here's S: Sainsbury to Syers 👉 buff.ly/LphR6MS
👩🎨 Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829–1862) 📸 @nationaltrust.bsky.social
Here's S: Sainsbury to Syers 👉 buff.ly/LphR6MS
👩🎨 Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829–1862) 📸 @nationaltrust.bsky.social
An A-Z of 1,000 women artists represented on Art UK: Sainsbury to Syers | Art UK
Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 500,000 artworks by over 55,000 artists.
buff.ly
March 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Our A-Z resource of 1,000 women artists features a fraction of the women artists on Art UK. Use our Curations tool to showcase your favourite #WomenArtists!
Here's S: Sainsbury to Syers 👉 buff.ly/LphR6MS
👩🎨 Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829–1862) 📸 @nationaltrust.bsky.social
Here's S: Sainsbury to Syers 👉 buff.ly/LphR6MS
👩🎨 Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829–1862) 📸 @nationaltrust.bsky.social
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one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason
March 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason
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Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn
Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn
Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately
* Analysis: Who is ‘working class’ and why does it matter in the arts?
* Interviews: Nine working-class creatives on class in the arts – and how they made…
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn
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This weekend’s #DesertIslandDiscs castaway is the wonderful Nick Cave. Eight tracks, a book, a luxury and an incredible life story. Join us on Sunday morning on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.
January 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This weekend’s #DesertIslandDiscs castaway is the wonderful Nick Cave. Eight tracks, a book, a luxury and an incredible life story. Join us on Sunday morning on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.
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When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Billionaires Should Not Exist
Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
www.teenvogue.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
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For all new BlueSky joiners - here is a starter pack i did a couple of months ago and have just updated!
For anyone interested in UK current affairs and political commentary
go.bsky.app/QbLkQQK
For anyone interested in UK current affairs and political commentary
go.bsky.app/QbLkQQK
January 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
For all new BlueSky joiners - here is a starter pack i did a couple of months ago and have just updated!
For anyone interested in UK current affairs and political commentary
go.bsky.app/QbLkQQK
For anyone interested in UK current affairs and political commentary
go.bsky.app/QbLkQQK
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Side consequence of hourly Musk barrages & reporting of them will be furthering public exhaustion with politics as drama. After Brexit ref, Brexit deadlock, covid, partygate, mini budget, cost of living - people really are desperate for a politics that is 'seen more than heard'
January 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Side consequence of hourly Musk barrages & reporting of them will be furthering public exhaustion with politics as drama. After Brexit ref, Brexit deadlock, covid, partygate, mini budget, cost of living - people really are desperate for a politics that is 'seen more than heard'
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If you’re finding this winter tough, you’re not alone. The NHS is offering talking therapies to support your mental health.
Take the first step—visit their site to learn more and get connected to help.
Take the first step—visit their site to learn more and get connected to help.
NHS talking therapies for anxiety and depression
How to access free psychological therapies (talking therapies) like cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), counselling and guided self-help on the NHS.
www.nhs.uk
January 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
If you’re finding this winter tough, you’re not alone. The NHS is offering talking therapies to support your mental health.
Take the first step—visit their site to learn more and get connected to help.
Take the first step—visit their site to learn more and get connected to help.
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Incredibly proud of this. The story of the BBC from its birth to the present day. It's the story of serious-minded humane people doing serious-minded humane things.
🎙️New episode out📽️ What shaped the values and structure of The BBC? Unusually for @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social, it's a story filled with optimism and idealism. Listen ⬇️
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December 4, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Incredibly proud of this. The story of the BBC from its birth to the present day. It's the story of serious-minded humane people doing serious-minded humane things.
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Next time you have an idea that seems too crazy, just remember that John Woo once walked into an office and said "I wanna make a movie where Nick Cage plays John Travolta playing Nick Cage, and John Travolta plays Nick Cage playing John Travolta," and someone wrote him a check for 80 million dollars
December 4, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Next time you have an idea that seems too crazy, just remember that John Woo once walked into an office and said "I wanna make a movie where Nick Cage plays John Travolta playing Nick Cage, and John Travolta plays Nick Cage playing John Travolta," and someone wrote him a check for 80 million dollars
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Bluesky is winning because both twitter and threads have gone out of their way to make their platforms inhospitable to reputable journalists and news. @kattenbarge.bsky.social reports:
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Bluesky is winning because both twitter and threads have gone out of their way to make their platforms inhospitable to reputable journalists and news. @kattenbarge.bsky.social reports:
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
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November 23, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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Trick of the light: the enduring appeal of René Magritte’s big tease
Trick of the light: the enduring appeal of René Magritte’s big tease
The record $121m sale of his most famous painting last week sealed the Belgian surrealist’s place in art’s hall of fame. What does it mean for his legacy?
René Magritte painted brain-teasers – an air force of uniformed bureaucrats raining down on to a…
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Trick of the light: the enduring appeal of René Magritte’s big tease
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Starter pack of non-massive accounts that you should really be following, because they will teach you things and/or make you laugh go.bsky.app/UStkBW1
November 22, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Starter pack of non-massive accounts that you should really be following, because they will teach you things and/or make you laugh go.bsky.app/UStkBW1
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November 19, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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I’m used to outsiders mangling Belfast's history. So Say Nothing was a breath of fresh air | Rachel Connolly
I’m used to outsiders mangling Belfast's history. So Say Nothing was a breath of fresh air | Rachel Connolly
The adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s book isn’t flawless – but it doesn’t airbrush the complex, messy story of the Troubles
I will admit that when I heard there was to be a TV adaptation of Say Nothing, based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s book of the…
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November 18, 2024 at 10:13 AM
I’m used to outsiders mangling Belfast's history. So Say Nothing was a breath of fresh air | Rachel Connolly
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A starter pack of starter packs for UK media & politics.
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UK MPs
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Prospect journalists
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UK Journos New, Podcasts
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UK MPs
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FT Journalists
go.bsky.app/FuqnwdD
BBC journalists
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Channel 4 News Journalists
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Prospect journalists
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November 15, 2024 at 8:45 AM
A starter pack of starter packs for UK media & politics.
UK Journos New, Podcasts
go.bsky.app/VB1hZZk
UK MPs
go.bsky.app/LrPkHJJ
FT Journalists
go.bsky.app/FuqnwdD
BBC journalists
go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD
Channel 4 News Journalists
go.bsky.app/6HZ1mvW
Prospect journalists
go.bsky.app/Vk8j7vP
UK Journos New, Podcasts
go.bsky.app/VB1hZZk
UK MPs
go.bsky.app/LrPkHJJ
FT Journalists
go.bsky.app/FuqnwdD
BBC journalists
go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD
Channel 4 News Journalists
go.bsky.app/6HZ1mvW
Prospect journalists
go.bsky.app/Vk8j7vP