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East coastal elite https://beyondthespelloflabour.wordpress.com/
I'm old enough to have seen children working barefoot in the vegetable gardens of an industrial school.
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 10h agoWorth remembering how mind-bogglingly recent the Magdalene Laundries were. The last one closed down on 25th September 1996, which means the Magdalene system outlived Tupac by two weeks.
World turned upside down. Discovering actress Emilia Jones is the daughter of Aled Jones. But he's a child ...
You know who are the absolute worst for conspiracy stuff? Old hippies.
Away from home, miles from an espresso, and no way to make one here, and run out of books. You taunt me.
petipaw@petipaw.bsky.social · 2d agoStarted #HowDoPeopleStaytheSame by Mark Bowles – and the first few pages just blew my mind. Honoring it with a deliciously bitter #espresso as a tribute to the author’s previous novel. @galleybeggars.bsky.social #Booksky
Words I've never heard outside journalism: Maven Hardscrabble
1000 times this. No accident that much of the best pop in those 'dead' years was by women.
Dan Heilman@danheilman.bsky.social · 2d agoRelated but no less toxic was the idea that pre-Beatles rock had "died" because there wasn't a central iconic act to rally around with Elvis in the army, etc. That mindset (that nothing prior to them really mattered or even existed) is what led us to the classic-rock format that still plagues us.
Great Grauniad corrections: "A reference to “hundreds of thousands” of people potentially receiving letters threatening removal should have been to “hundreds or thousands”.
Plenty of Irish place names that sound inadeverently like horror-movie locales in their English language forms - Kill, Slane, Swords - but Beal na Marbh near Coachford, where we passed through today, takes some beating.
cancelled my monthly direct debit @amnestyuk.bsky.social. been going for more than 20 years. if you won’t stand with trans people I won’t stand with you.
Jeanne Gibson, known worldwide as Rosie the Riveter, passed away on 29th July 2026 at the remarkable age of 100. Thank you Jeanne for giving women a symbol of strength when we were told we had none. 💋💪🏻💘
The whole campaign was overshadowed by Burnham's first weeks and then Farage's stunt.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 5d agoI didn't see any campaigning from the Greens about Manchester, what happened there?
@melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social (And anyone else) Is there a good lay person's guide to Gospel from the 50s-80s? Or a web resource. Beyond Sam Cooke and the Swan Silvertones, I'm clueless.
I'd no idea it was today until late yesterday and I'm an election nerd
Michael Birtwhistle@salfordmh.bsky.social · 6d agoI've voted Green in GM Mayoral. No second preference. Turnout was low, only 300ish of 1600 an hour ago at my polling station. There's been no campaigning that I've seen, just the standard statements booklet, and one Labour glossy.
If you think watching a penalty shoot out is nerve-racking, try following it on your phone. Bohs through to a third qualifying round of the conference league.
⚫ Le penseur belge Raoul Vaneigem, mort cette semaine à 92 ans, fut aux côtés de Guy Debord l’une des figures du situationnisme, ce mouvement de contestation radicale du capitalisme et de la «société du spectacle», inspirateur de Mai 68. ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/Vc3
If your vote is undecided in the Clacton by-election this might be the clincher for you
Israel is, of course, a member of UEFA, which means even they voted against handing a Kushner control of the WC. Less concerned with handing the other brother Gaza.
KP McDonnell@wildecard.eurosky.social · 6d agoThat's nice. Now do Israel.
The World Cup to become like the 'World Series' then?
I like this. 'Celtic' doesn't do much for me either; dodgy tattoos, poorly understood mythology and so on. I do think, as touched on here, Ireland should interest itself in Wales and Scotland, and build ties with agents of future independence. llinos.substack.com/p/the-celtic...
The Celtic World Is Not a World
It’s a political wish spoken in the tense of fact.
llinos.substack.com
The average bro responding to Emily Wilson's LRB review would melt into a pile of Fallout goo upon reading the first two lines of the average academic journal peer review
Picked up today in @vinylwhistle.bsky.social in Headingley. Had most of it on 12"s once, at eye watering prices from the good Golden Discs on Mary St. Hard to imagine the next 40 years without Planet Rock.
It's telling that this is the sort of thing a relentlessly populist politician can say and a) expect people to get the reference to another country's health system and b) be confident that the great majority of his listener will agree. It's one of the things 'everyone knows' about the US.
Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · last wk.Burnham: "Social care in England is as unfair as American healthcare." It's a very good line.
Going to say it once more: Academics like Wilson have entire careers independent of how many books they sell. We may not make millions, but it can be a good, meaningful and lovely job. She is not obligated to be "nice" about Nolan's adaptation, that is not how academia works.
Michael Speirs@natuphillies.bsky.social · last wk.I'm sorry but your piece smacks of ingratitude. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer your translation has sold ONE MILLION copies, most I contend, due to the pr run-up and release of the Nolan film. You are entitled to your opinion but why bite the hand that fed you? Maybe silence would be wiser?
Back in England after a week in Ireland, and turning on the news and struck by the utter 'performative' inanity of it all; 'you must apologise!' 'no, you apologise!'. "But what do people really think of Andy? We look at his first week"
We have a vacancy for senior technician to work in the school of music. Some of it will be checking projectors work and the like, but you may also find yourself helping with all sorts of music tech projects at the outer edges of possibility. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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We cannot agree to sanctioning Israel. - Chancellor Merz, today, Dublin.
Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · last wk.On Monday, Israeli bulldozers demolished Palestinian homes and commercial buildings in the town of Anza, south of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.💔😢🤬🇮🇱♾️
