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Rosemary Noble

@chirose.bsky.social

Retired librarian. Author of historical novels set in England and Australia, living the simple life, loves history, gardening, genealogy. Longing for common sense to come back to politics. https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Rosemary-Noble/author/B00J7TLMKC

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Lizzie Dearden@lizziedearden.bsky.social · 3w ago

Experts say Russia's efforts aren't necessarily about making Brits pro-Russian, but "making the UK feel dysfunctional, hypocritical, exhausted, divided": "For Russia, it suffices to identify divisive issues to pour gasoline on, intensify them, and benefit from the resulting chaos"

Bo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social · last mo.

Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.

The Rude Pundit@rudepundit.bsky.social · last mo.

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow. The parliament or the people of 1688, or of any other period, had no more right to dispose of the people of the present day, or to bind or to controul them in any shape whatever, than the parliament or the people of the present day have to dispose of, bind or controul those who are to live a hundred or a thousand years hence. Every generation is, and must be, competent to all the purposes which its occasions require. It is the living, and not the dead, that are to be accommodated.
Dr Sophie Michell@sophiemhistory.bsky.social · last mo.

Friday Murder time and this one is upsetting. So I'm going to focus less on the details and more on the reaction of the police and their investigation. On 19th May 1891, some sailors noticed a bag in Sandon Basin, a dock in the north part of Liverpool. They took it out of the water and opened it.

Edwin Hayward@edwinhayward.com · last mo.

Crazy idea. Be gentle when explaining why it won't work. Government sets aside £10,000 when someone turns 18, invested in an ETF. 50 years later, at retirement age, that £10K is worth £460,000 at a long term average 8% return per year. Buys an annuity instead of state pension.

Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙@cornishskipper.bsky.social · last mo.

“Harborne & fellow crypto billionaire Ben Delo – who has a criminal conviction in the US related to cryptocurrency – account for nearly 2/3 of Reform’s fundraising since 07/24. The party’s political operation is…funded by the crypto industry.” thedailybritain.co.uk/farage-harbo...

The £5m question: Farage, Harborne, crypto policy and a timeline that raises very serious questions

A secret £5m gift. A parliamentary candidacy days later. A series of crypto policy speeches directly benefiting the donor. And a formal investigation. Here is the full Farage-Harborne timeline laid ou...

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Buck Frexit@beany.bsky.social · last mo.

Ten years ago today the whole country and its future were sacrificed on the altar of Boris Johnson’s ego, David Cameron’s stupidity and Nigel Farage’s prejudice. A decade thrown away and a nation left angrier and poorer. Thanks, you absoute pricks.

Kerry@kerry10.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We need to educate those that are thinking about voting for the fraudulent liars & thieving millionaires in the Reform party. Repost please.

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 4mo ago

Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes. it was, as you can imagine, not clean.