Suzanne up north
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All schools should be art schools.. Up the reds!
Andy Burnham can save Labour and defeat Reform. He should be the next prime minister | Neal Lawson
Andy Burnham can save Labour and defeat Reform. He should be the next prime minister | Neal Lawson
Put plainly, the Greater Manchester mayor is electoral gold dust. The Labour party machine must not stand in his way to becoming an MP, says Neal Lawson of the cross-party campaign organisation Compass
theguardian.com
This letter is really something, my god.
Cat Neilan@catneilan.bsky.social · 3mo agoJess Phillips has quit
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
nature.com
Mani RIP : a tribute by John Robb louderthanwar.com/mani/ via @louderthanwar
a tribute to manc musical legend Mani
a genuine, warm human and a force of nature that filled a room with good times just by being there - the ultimate accolade for anyone.
louderthanwar.com
You might have thought Question Time was biased. But you never realised how much. UKIP never even had a single MP.
Women in Print: 150 Years of Liberty Textiles at the William Morris Gallery includes this 1965 Mary Quant Ginger Group outfit - as worn by Jane Asher to Alfie premiere- using fabric design by Lindsay Phillip Butterfield circa 1900.
Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.
Happy birthday to Peter Edward Clarke aka Budgie, drummer for Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Creatures and The Slits, born on this day in 1957, St Helens, England. #punk #punks #punkrock #gothpunkrock #drummer #Budgie #history #punkrockhistory #otd
No more trophy hunting for big beautiful creatures says British Columbia
British Columbia ends grizzly bear hunt, calls it ‘no longer socially acceptable’
"It's no longer socially acceptable to the vast majority of British Columbians to hunt grizzly bears," said Doug Donaldson, the Minister of ...
whitewolfpack.com
The Met Office are letting us submit our own storm name suggestions: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o... There's space for five names in the submission boxes. Let's go with: Exxon Mobil BP Shell Equinor Chevron At last, those companies will get the recognition they deserve. Pls retweet!
Name our Storms
metoffice.gov.uk
Francesca@fgnunn.bsky.social · last yr.Here's your chance to name storms after oil companies- there's a SM effort to include BP, Exxon, Shell, BigOil and Equinor. #britishecologists @mrhenrymorris.substack.com @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Spanning the 1950s through the ’90s, “Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet” at Tate Modern is thoroughly grounded in the real, tangible, and charmingly analog.
The Analog Charm of Pre-Internet Technological Art
“Electric Dreams” at Tate Modern shows the sheer extent to which human imagination and inventiveness harnessed technological progressions in the infancy of computing.
hyperallergic.com
Tate Modern. The brutalist stairwell of this London art gallery is a work of art in itself. #photography #London #TateModern
Lord Bamford owes £500,000,000 to HMRC he has retired from the House of Lords and fled. He expects his debt just like Michelle Mone's £232,000,000 debt to be written off. We must recover every penny from these thieves, and toss them in jail.
Meanwhile over in “the other place” a Reform party MP is actually threatening to shut down the BBC - a public service broadcaster - because a political satire show made fun of party leader NigelFarage We can never allow this dangerous bunch anywhere near power
BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”
Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so 'they cannot be undone in the future' - Olive Press News Spain
PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain's constitution so they 'can never be undone'. The left-wing PSOE
theolivepress.es
Private healthcare is lobbying Wes Streeting to sign a new PFI deal with them. Time is running out to ask Wes Streeting to say NO. Please add your name to this petition now. #NoNewPFI weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
We’ve updated our Clacton billboard to tell voters their MP just took £40k from a US firm that advises clients how to offshore their money and pay less tax. For the full story see video below 👇
