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How awful. Poor guy . Such a talented and beautiful soul.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d ago‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating stroke
24 September 1906 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Rozsa Szigeti, was born. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Learn about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/
Why the fuck are the BBC giving this chump airtime? He hasn't even admitted he laundered the reputation of team sky by inadvertently covering up their doping with implausible claims about marginal gains.
BBC Newsnight@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 6d ago“What kind of a government is that?” Matthew Syed analyses “the contrast between” Donald Trump and Andy Burnham during their meeting at the UN, saying that Trump looked at Burnham with “disdain” #Newsnight
"Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter!?" The first episode of "I, Claudius" was broadcast 50 years ago today. It's "still one of the finest pieces of television ever made," says @finlay24.bsky.social. thelionandunicorn.com/2026/09/20/l...
Last night on iPlayer: I, Claudius
Fifty years on from its first broadcast, ‘I Claudius’ is still magnificent, says FINLAY McLAREN.
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Probably earned myself speeding points when this came onto my playlist yesterday
WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · last wk.21
Funny coz I've lost confidence in the billionaires www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Democratic politics will not serve the people when politicians owe their place and their futures to one or two billionaires.
Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 2w agoA serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power
The ability of the richest & most powerful men in the world to position themselves against "the elite" - a category that excludes the world's richest man, its biggest media magnates, the UK's richest party & the biggest donors in UK history - may be the most effective lie in modern political history
Huddersfield was the second town in the country to build council housing. My new post explores its early civic and housing history when it was described 'as advanced a town as any in the kingdom’: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/h...
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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#DannyKruger wants to roll back “no-fault” divorces; reneging on them would make it much harder for women to divorce their violent or abusive husbands, & "undo” the sexual revolution of the 1960s, which gave women access to the contraceptive pill – & autonomy over our own bodies #ReformUK
Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · 3w agoRobert Jenrick’s sneering ‘boohoo’ tells you everything about Reform’s woman problem www.independent.co.uk/voices/rober...
Trump was 4 miles from the Twin Towers in his office on 5th avenue watching it on TV and then the smoke in the distance out of the window as his own lawyer has made clear in interviews previously. There were no fireman who carried him out of his office.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
46 years ago, on August 31, 1980, the historic August Agreements were signed in Gdańsk. It led to the creation of the Solidarity trade union, the first independent trade union in the Eastern Bloc. @jachayden.bsky.social was there. coldwarconversations.com/episode152
With Solidarity in Gdansk in 1980
During her first visit to Poland in 1980, Jacqueline Hayden met the leading members of the free trade union ‘Solidarność’, including the future president Lech Wałęsa. As a freela
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cf Ernest Thesiger's regular method of tapping friends for a loan "I'm writing my memoirs. It's £5 for a mention. £10 not to be mentioned"
Kirkdale Bookshop@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · last mo.Memoir, autobiography... Albert Angelo by B. S. Johnson
For around 4,500 years, the Rudston Monolith has stood within an ancient ritual landscape in the Yorkshire Wolds. Beside it, the medieval church of All Saints is a mere pup - a later chapter in a place held sacred for millennia.
The heedless greed behind the threatened destruction of this invaluable institution is ghastly. This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The future of the iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords, Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion...
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The Vale of York Viking Hoard, found near Harrogate contained some 617 silver coins and 67 additional items. The centerpiece is a rare, beautifully crafted 9th-century silver-gilt cup. Likely from a monastery in Northern France. it is decorated with running lions and
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
But but but hang ON! Didn’t he get given money for “security for life”? Is this not sufficient to deal with appearing at the count to accept the win gracefully, thank the police and returning officer and the people who counted the votes and the VOTERS at a by election HE CAUSED?!
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2mo agoNigel Farage suggests the police advised him against attending the result of the Clacton by-election. Essex Police completely deny this, telling the BBC "we have a proportionate and robust policing operation to ensure the safety and security of all participants in the count"
years ago today the construction of the #BerlinWall started. Listen to the story here. coldwarconversations.com/episode263/
The building of the Berlin Wall
From the moment East Germany was formed in 1949, many of its citizens chose to leave to start a new life in the West. By the mid-1950s, the trickle had turned into a flood as large numbers rejec
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SUNSET BOULEVARD was released 76 years ago today. One of the most acclaimed films of legendary writer-director Billy Wilder, and one of the great movies about Hollywood, the making of story is still big – it’s the pictures that got small… 1/48
Re high streets. There is also a trend at the opposite end of the economic spectrum - well to do small towns w strong independent/ local vibe being targeted by high end chains. Although not as problematic it does mean local businesses are priced out.
"But they [all of the rapists] did share one thing: a sense of entitlement. An attitude of complete indifference to whatever anyone said or thought, because power had always been on their side." This book should be required reading. #BookSky
Genuinely scary that people now say stuff about race the BNP would never have dared say, and the media carry sentiment that would have been rejected as totally out of bounds in the 1990s. These are the fruits of sheer hatred, directed by politicians and 'commentators'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Further arrests in Thetford as disorder continues for third night
The arrests follow disturbances linked to anti-immigration protests in the market town.
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