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It's never "Inheritance street" or "tax evasion street" is it.
As if needed benefits is a fun way to live. And as if all those benefits don't rapidly funnel back to the rich in rent, bills etc anyway.
As if needed benefits is a fun way to live. And as if all those benefits don't rapidly funnel back to the rich in rent, bills etc anyway.
December 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
It's never "Inheritance street" or "tax evasion street" is it.
As if needed benefits is a fun way to live. And as if all those benefits don't rapidly funnel back to the rich in rent, bills etc anyway.
As if needed benefits is a fun way to live. And as if all those benefits don't rapidly funnel back to the rich in rent, bills etc anyway.
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EU capitals are on the verge of agreeing on measures to loosen safeguards around a financial practice that contributed to the 2008 crisis, multiple officials involved in the talks told POLITICO.
EU countries back looser rules for banking practice that fueled 2008 financial crisis
The European Central Bank has warned against too much relaxation.
www.politico.eu
December 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
EU capitals are on the verge of agreeing on measures to loosen safeguards around a financial practice that contributed to the 2008 crisis, multiple officials involved in the talks told POLITICO.
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
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📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.14)
❌ Higher #inequality impedes social mobility - rungs on the ladder too far apart.
✅ To live The American Dream … just move to Finland 🙂
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
❌ Higher #inequality impedes social mobility - rungs on the ladder too far apart.
✅ To live The American Dream … just move to Finland 🙂
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
July 19, 2025 at 7:46 AM
📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.14)
❌ Higher #inequality impedes social mobility - rungs on the ladder too far apart.
✅ To live The American Dream … just move to Finland 🙂
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
❌ Higher #inequality impedes social mobility - rungs on the ladder too far apart.
✅ To live The American Dream … just move to Finland 🙂
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
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Doesn't exactly narrow it down...
November 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Doesn't exactly narrow it down...
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New blog post, about a man who had a uniquely eventful decade between 1914 and 1923: "The many armies of Patrick Barnes"
#IrishHistory
thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/11/29/t...
#IrishHistory
thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/11/29/t...
The many armies of Patrick Barnes
In a tumultuous decade that took him from the Western Front to the Argenta, one Belfast man served with five different military forces: the British Army in 1914, the Irish Volunteers in the Easter …
thebelfastpogrom.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
New blog post, about a man who had a uniquely eventful decade between 1914 and 1923: "The many armies of Patrick Barnes"
#IrishHistory
thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/11/29/t...
#IrishHistory
thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/11/29/t...
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🇰🇬#Kyrgyzstan holds parliamentary #elections today, and ODIHR has hundreds of observers spread out across the country.
Tune in here at 15:00 local time tomorrow to watch the press conference of the international observers: buff.ly/RGcNNi8 #выборы2025
Tune in here at 15:00 local time tomorrow to watch the press conference of the international observers: buff.ly/RGcNNi8 #выборы2025
November 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🇰🇬#Kyrgyzstan holds parliamentary #elections today, and ODIHR has hundreds of observers spread out across the country.
Tune in here at 15:00 local time tomorrow to watch the press conference of the international observers: buff.ly/RGcNNi8 #выборы2025
Tune in here at 15:00 local time tomorrow to watch the press conference of the international observers: buff.ly/RGcNNi8 #выборы2025
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📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.13)
❌ ⬆️ #inequality > ⬆️stigma > ⬇️interaction between those with and those without a mental illness.
✅ ⬆️ #equal EU countries score better.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
❌ ⬆️ #inequality > ⬆️stigma > ⬇️interaction between those with and those without a mental illness.
✅ ⬆️ #equal EU countries score better.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
July 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.13)
❌ ⬆️ #inequality > ⬆️stigma > ⬇️interaction between those with and those without a mental illness.
✅ ⬆️ #equal EU countries score better.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
❌ ⬆️ #inequality > ⬆️stigma > ⬇️interaction between those with and those without a mental illness.
✅ ⬆️ #equal EU countries score better.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
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Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Farmyard at Dusk’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Farmyard at Dusk’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Farmyard at Dusk’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Farmyard at Dusk’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
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So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
I am once again telling everyone to get the fuck off Substack leavesubstack.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
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I have received an emailed with the subject line
Call For Papers - Article Submission open for Original Article(s) if (1) plagiarism of the article is less than 15% including references. (2) The article is within the scope of the journal. (3) The article is original and result-oriented.
Call For Papers - Article Submission open for Original Article(s) if (1) plagiarism of the article is less than 15% including references. (2) The article is within the scope of the journal. (3) The article is original and result-oriented.
November 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I have received an emailed with the subject line
Call For Papers - Article Submission open for Original Article(s) if (1) plagiarism of the article is less than 15% including references. (2) The article is within the scope of the journal. (3) The article is original and result-oriented.
Call For Papers - Article Submission open for Original Article(s) if (1) plagiarism of the article is less than 15% including references. (2) The article is within the scope of the journal. (3) The article is original and result-oriented.
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"Her supervisor was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery" #JBB
#OTD 28 Nov 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered existence of pulsars, detecting a "bit of scruff" on chart-recorder papers that tracked across sky with the stars. Had taken 3 months to check papers by hand. Her supervisor was awarded Nobel prize for the discovery. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn...
November 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"Her supervisor was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery" #JBB
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Decided not to do my usual “10 posts for the price of 9” Black Friday deal this year. Tariff pricing is too complicated.
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Decided not to do my usual “10 posts for the price of 9” Black Friday deal this year. Tariff pricing is too complicated.
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The Ladybird look, 1976.
The crimplene trouser-suit
Artist: Martin Aitchison
The crimplene trouser-suit
Artist: Martin Aitchison
November 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The Ladybird look, 1976.
The crimplene trouser-suit
Artist: Martin Aitchison
The crimplene trouser-suit
Artist: Martin Aitchison
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"fun-loving camogie girl?"
Camogie isn't about having fun, it is about vanquishing your enemies before you and hearing the lamentation of the women.
Camogie isn't about having fun, it is about vanquishing your enemies before you and hearing the lamentation of the women.
Known widely for her outbursts condemning and berating judges, politicians, guards, teachers and even nurses, Ms Burke is a woman of ferocious belief in her convictions
www.independent.ie/irish-news/t...
www.independent.ie/irish-news/t...
The making of a matriarch: How Martina Burke went from fun-loving camogie girl to mother of a fundamentalist family
The transformation of Martina Burke from her schooldays as a “totally normal” teenager who was “a laugh a minute” and a gifted camogie player, confounds those who knew and cared for her in her youth.
www.independent.ie
November 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"fun-loving camogie girl?"
Camogie isn't about having fun, it is about vanquishing your enemies before you and hearing the lamentation of the women.
Camogie isn't about having fun, it is about vanquishing your enemies before you and hearing the lamentation of the women.
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She is president, since the 11th November.
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
She is president, since the 11th November.
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Irish tech journalism has precisely three articles:
1. Oisin McMusk has raised $118m for his GraphQL- powered AI-enabled dogball shaver.
2. A panel on why the technology they have in their LinkedIn headlines isn't going away!
3. CatballShaver's CEO, on why he expects revenue to triple next month.
1. Oisin McMusk has raised $118m for his GraphQL- powered AI-enabled dogball shaver.
2. A panel on why the technology they have in their LinkedIn headlines isn't going away!
3. CatballShaver's CEO, on why he expects revenue to triple next month.
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Irish tech journalism has precisely three articles:
1. Oisin McMusk has raised $118m for his GraphQL- powered AI-enabled dogball shaver.
2. A panel on why the technology they have in their LinkedIn headlines isn't going away!
3. CatballShaver's CEO, on why he expects revenue to triple next month.
1. Oisin McMusk has raised $118m for his GraphQL- powered AI-enabled dogball shaver.
2. A panel on why the technology they have in their LinkedIn headlines isn't going away!
3. CatballShaver's CEO, on why he expects revenue to triple next month.
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“The proportion of tenancies provided by large landlords with 100-plus tenancies has now increased for nine consecutive quarters to 14.2 per cent today.. the number of registered tenancies grew 1.9 per cent annually to a total of 240,741” @irishtimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
“The proportion of tenancies provided by large landlords with 100-plus tenancies has now increased for nine consecutive quarters to 14.2 per cent today.. the number of registered tenancies grew 1.9 per cent annually to a total of 240,741” @irishtimes.com
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Well, if it’s dark - no. Bluntly, no.
High-visibility only works in light. At distance at night, it won’t even give as much warning as reflective materials, still less lights.
And that assumes the idiot drivers are even paying attention. One gets rather tired of the victim-blaming on the roads.
High-visibility only works in light. At distance at night, it won’t even give as much warning as reflective materials, still less lights.
And that assumes the idiot drivers are even paying attention. One gets rather tired of the victim-blaming on the roads.
👀 Can you see me now?
The importance of visibility on our roads cannot be understated, particularly for vulnerable road users including pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooter drivers and motorcyclists.
#CanYouSeeMeNow #KeepingPeopleSafe
The importance of visibility on our roads cannot be understated, particularly for vulnerable road users including pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooter drivers and motorcyclists.
#CanYouSeeMeNow #KeepingPeopleSafe
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Well, if it’s dark - no. Bluntly, no.
High-visibility only works in light. At distance at night, it won’t even give as much warning as reflective materials, still less lights.
And that assumes the idiot drivers are even paying attention. One gets rather tired of the victim-blaming on the roads.
High-visibility only works in light. At distance at night, it won’t even give as much warning as reflective materials, still less lights.
And that assumes the idiot drivers are even paying attention. One gets rather tired of the victim-blaming on the roads.
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Britain, hearing stories about the British Empire from literally anywhere else on the planet.
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Britain, hearing stories about the British Empire from literally anywhere else on the planet.
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I'm in an album club, like a book club but for records. I got to pick the topic this month: music you got into after you read a review. And one of the most musically experienced members said he always kept his eye out for music that got widely divergent reviews—love and hate—they're usually the best
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I'm in an album club, like a book club but for records. I got to pick the topic this month: music you got into after you read a review. And one of the most musically experienced members said he always kept his eye out for music that got widely divergent reviews—love and hate—they're usually the best
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“It can be nice and cosy at home during the cold weather” (1979)
Artist: David Palmer
Artist: David Palmer
November 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“It can be nice and cosy at home during the cold weather” (1979)
Artist: David Palmer
Artist: David Palmer
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#OtD 27 Nov 1835 James Pratt and John Smith, a groom and labourer, respectively, were executed in London for having sex. They were the last men executed in Britain for homosexuality, although executions continued in British colonies. Learn more: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9949...
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
#OtD 27 Nov 1835 James Pratt and John Smith, a groom and labourer, respectively, were executed in London for having sex. They were the last men executed in Britain for homosexuality, although executions continued in British colonies. Learn more: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9949...