Powerful review of #DontLetitBreakYouHoney @onejen.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social by former MP @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social tomwatsonofficial.substack.com/p/jenny-evan...
Jenny Evans and the cost of institutional cowardice
The inside story of how corruption thrives when power is unchecked
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A big moment in tackling the UK’s skills crisis. @MakeUK_ has published Skills for Success—a blueprint to fix apprenticeships and secure our economic future. Read the full report: www.makeuk.org/make-uk-indu... #UKmfg #IndustrialStrategySkills
Make UK Industrial Strategy Skills Commission Report 2025
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Iain Archer presenting on Radio 4 right now. It’s wonderful. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, ABBA: Inside the Music
Exploring ABBA's songwriting and craft on the 50th anniversary of their Eurovision win.
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Welcome to the House of Lords on here.
House of Lords@houseoflords.parliament.uk · 2y agoThe House of Lords is now on Bluesky. Follow here for updates and content from the UK Parliament’s second chamber. We will be sharing a range of content about the work of the House and members. If you have feedback or want to tell us what you’d like to see, please get in touch via Chat.
ABBA Voyage is proving to be more than just a show—it's an economic powerhouse, bringing millions to Stratford and boosting jobs. A shining example of how our support for culture and creativity drives growth across London.
Abba Voyage gives £1.4bn economic boost - and may stay in London 'forever'
Executive producer Michael Bolingbroke said the Swedish pop group ‘chose the UK when they could have gone anywhere else’
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Uma is doing great work here.
Uma Kumaran MP@umakumaran.bsky.social · 2y agoBBC World Service reporting from Syria has been incredible - in this volatile world, their work is vital. We know that when BBC steps aside, Russia is waiting in the wings to broadcast state propaganda I spoke to Politics Home about the soft power 🇬🇧 holds👇🏾 www.politicshome.com/news/article...
This could work, but it also needs a psychologist involved, as it touches on themes of trauma and sacrifice.
Jonathan Edward Durham@thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 2y agoI'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them
If you’ve not heard Mark Steel on desert island discs, you should. It’s about the most revealing episode I’ve ever heard. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Guardian have missed the essential fact we need in this story. What’s on the other side of the window? Are they on the ground floor?
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2y agoChaos in Bahamas parliament as MP throws ceremonial mace out of window
Happy 90th birthday to the British Council, who open minds, doors and borders and promote human flourishing.
I’m very sad to see Louise Haigh resign. She was a highly able minister who brought energy and clarity to the transport brief. Her contributions will be missed.
Possibly the best interviewer the BBC Today programme has ever had. The corporation will regret letting her go. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Mishal Husain to leave BBC
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This fella - Richard Dawson - has today released a brilliant cynical stab at the Xmas market… and I’m playing it TONIGHT! Of course I am! 👊💥 #rileyandcoe ⭐️
This first ten years of multiplex with kids are the hardest.
Karim Palant@karimpalant.bsky.social · 2y agoTook the kids to Paddington in Peru today. First family trip to the pictures and the first at all for the youngest. It’s genuinely brilliant going to the pictures. I got an enormous popcorn and they stuffed their faces. Excellent.
I know I once had beef with jay over his utter contempt for Black Country chefs but I’m going to miss him in the Observer. I’d actually follow him to a new publication.
Jay Rayner@jayrayner1.bsky.social · 2y agoThis week’s restaurant review: the Martlet inside the beautifully restored Rochdale Town Hall. The menu pays homage to greater Manchester classics with wit and professionalism. (Side note: these reviews will be In the Observer until February) www.theguardian.com/food/2024/no...
Brace yourselves. MPs will soon unveil their Christmas cards, featuring designs from local school competitions. The all-time winner? Former MP Michael Dugher’s entrant: an avant-garde kid who drew Santa nailed to a cross. Forget sleigh bells, that one rang alarm bells.
There’s something almost transcendent about sitting in a 90-degree sauna, the gales whistling around the corners of your wooden box, as you gaze out at the snow.
Sigh - classic fact free nonsense. ‘news’ story here totally fails to mention that Tory plans were for fines of £5k (later reduced to £3k) for each missed heat pump sale. What @Ed_Miliband has done is to reduce that to £500. Headline should read “Miliband slashes Tory boiler tax”
This is one of my favourite photographs from the nineties. The look on his face says it all!
Sorry to read this sad news. John was one of a kind. My thoughts and prayers are with Pauline and the family. news.sky.com/story/former...
Former Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott dies aged 86
Born in Prestatyn, Wales, on 31 May 1938, John Prescott, the son of a railwayman, left school aged 15 to work as a trainee chef, then as a steward on the Cunard Line before entering politics in a care...
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Big farmer at work.
Kevin Schofield@kevinschofied.bsky.social · 2y agoJeremy Clarkson on the inheritance tax changes: "People like me will simply put it in a trust, and so long as I live for seven years, that’s fine ... but it’s incredibly time consuming to have to do that, and why should all these people have to do that?” www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/victor...
Come on board Ursula!
Jon Worth@jonworth.eu · 2y agoMore than a year ago I made a placeholder von der Leyen on Bluesky - this explains why euroblog.jonworth.eu/ursula-von-d... If @ec.europa.eu wants it, I will be happy to hand it over, for free It's against the Terms of Bluesky, but 🤷♂️ - I reckon it's better I hold it than a malevolent actor
I didn't know this. There's so much for the new government to put right after 14 years of decisions that were not thought through
Uma Kumaran MP@umakumaran.bsky.social · 2y agoYesterday, I asked about the impact cuts to BBC world service have had to availability of impartial news in the Middle East In a shocking example, closure of BBC Arabic radio led to Russia Today taking over the same frequency Today’s evidence session continues investigating cuts to BBC World news
