Jenny Linford
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Food writer, cheese enthusiast, Londoner
'It is a dramatic assault on the First Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits the government from curtailing the freedom of the press.'
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Plump, scarlet pomegranates have long been a symbol of fertility in many cultures. It was a pleasure to write about the cultural richness of this beautiful fruit for
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@malorieblackman.bsky.social
just heard you on Today talking about The Silver Chair. That piece you read is so relevant - thank you for highlighting it.
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Malorie Blackman
12 days ago
The
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run some fantastic writing courses, so do please check this out if you feel you'd benefit from one of the offered scholarships.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
7 days ago
January 25, 2026
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January 25, 2026
As the nation mourned the killing of VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti yesterday at the hands of federal officials in Minneapolis, President Donald J.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-25-2026
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD
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The ICE officer approaches him while heâs filming from the side walk. Only thing heâs holding is a cell phone.
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Aaron Rupar
9 days ago
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?"
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
13 days ago
January 19, 2026
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January 19, 2026
Late last night, Nick Schifrin of PBS NewsHour posted on social media that the staff of the U.S.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-19-2026
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Robert Reich
25 days ago
âThe Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.â âGeorge Orwell (1984)
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Bill McKibben
25 days ago
The paper of record is, thank heaven, fulfilling its responsibility this time. That really matters
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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from â not toward â a federal officer when he opened fire.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html
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A powerful, compelling and important read.
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Bill McKibben
30 days ago
The overlap between places we want to dominate and places that have oil is striking
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Armando Iannucci
30 days ago
Get ready for Phase Two: a raid on Oslo to seize the Peace Prize.
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Starting 2026 in style enjoying wonderful British cheeses bought online from Courtyard Dairy! Oozy Baron Bigod, a hard ewe's milk cheese called Corra Linn and flavourful Stichelton - so good!
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
about 1 month ago
December 31, 2025
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December 31, 2025
And so, the sun sets on 2025.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-31-2025
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Caroline Lucas
about 1 month ago
Hard hitting piece by
@rupertread.bsky.social
on the dangers of âclimate optimismâ - at least 30 years of failure to take the threat seriously has led to multiplying risks and locked-in harm and suffering
@climatemajority.bsky.social
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The end of 2025 must be the end of the inane rule of climate âoptimismâ
We should admit that widely-mandated climate optimism has been actively harmful to the needful acknowledgement of reality - and to the active collective self-protection that we now desperately need to...
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-12-29/the-end-of-2025-must-the-end-of-the-inane-rule-of-climate-optimism/
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Enjoyed this stimulating Start the Week this morning on animals and humans with
@naomialderman.bsky.social
@justingregg.com
Peter Fretwell, Marianne Hem Eriksen. Well worth a listen.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Animals and Meaning
Naomi Alderman with Justin Gregg, Peter Fretwell and Marianne Hem Eriksen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002nv8g
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Helen Day
about 1 month ago
On this day 29th December 1975 âRadical new legislationâ introducing a woman's right to equal pay and status came into force in the UK (Picture: A Second Picture Dictionary, artist: Eric Winter)
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Helen Day
about 1 month ago
The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield. âDatesâ A box on the coffee table is a Ladybird Christmas essential. (Fifth Picture Book, 1973)
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#PostOfficeScandal
'The revelation directly contradicts the Post Office's claims during criminal prosecutions - which led to hundreds of wrongful convictions and civil cases that destroyed livelihoods - that no bugs existed capable of causing accounting shortfalls.' BBC
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Post Office had deal with Fujitsu to fix Horizon errors 19 years ago
The emergence of a document contradicts claims made by the Post Office over bugs in its IT system during criminal prosecutions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqlkx6n15ero
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Guardian Environment
about 1 month ago
Hen cages and pig farrowing crates to be outlawed in England
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Hen cages and pig farrowing crates to be outlawed in England
Humane slaughter requirements for farmed fish and end to puppy farming also in new package of animal welfare laws
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/22/government-outlaw-hen-cages-pig-farrowing-crates-england?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu_env
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Helen Day
about 1 month ago
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 22 Durham Cathedral Artist: SRBadmin
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
about 1 month ago
December 19, 2025
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December 19, 2025
This past week feels like the final, chaotic days of a political era.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-19-2025
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The Guardian
about 1 month ago
Shooting hares in England to be banned for most of the year
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Shooting hares in England to be banned for most of the year
Exclusive: Ministers also expected to announce trail-hunting ban in sweeping changes to animal welfare law Shooting hares in England will be banned for most of the year as part of sweeping changes to animal welfare law. At the moment, it is legal to shoot the animals during their breeding season, with pregnant hares left to bleed out, and leverets â their young â often orphaned as a result. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/20/shooting-hares-england-ban-trail-hunting-animal-welfare-law?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Private Eye Magazine
about 2 months ago
Post Mortem, by Private Eyeâs Richard Brooks, chronicling how the Post Office scandal and cover-up developed and later unravelled, is on sale now at all good bookshops. âĄïž Available at:
private-eye.co.uk/books
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The Delicious Legacy Podcast
about 2 months ago
âRepast: The Story of Foodâ by Jenny Linford (
@jennylinford.bsky.social
) has won âBest in the Worldâ in the Special Awards of the Jury for books at this yearâs Gourmand Awards. Here's my interview with Jenny back in April, about her book, to your aural delight!
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Repast - The Story of Food
Podcast Episode · The Delicious Legacy · 22/04/2025 · 46m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-delicious-legacy/id1494707127?i=1000704524515
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
about 2 months ago
December 15, 2025
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December 15, 2025
âFor the last couple of months, Senator Rumson has suggested that being president of this country was to a certain extent about character.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-15-2025
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Alice Hunt
about 2 months ago
www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
A lovely tribute to the brilliant John Carey, whose work I return to again and again and again.
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John Carey obituary: literary critic
Witty, eclectic and sometimes scathing scholar and reviewer who held sacred cows in little respect, dies aged 91
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/john-carey-obituary-literary-critic-mxjvmfxml
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
about 2 months ago
December 12, 2025
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December 12, 2025
Today former Alabama senator Doug Jones launched his campaign to become the stateâs next governor.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-12-2025
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'The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the origin of human fire-making back by more than 350,000 years, far earlier than previously thought.' Human history rewritten by archaeological discovery in Norfolk.
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The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News
Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-b9da7a6d-165b-492a-8785-235cd10e2e8e
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Paul Lewis
about 2 months ago
Last post - Denmark closes its postal service for letters
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ending a 400-year-old amenity
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Denmark posts its last letters as hallowed national mail ends
Denmarkâs 400-year-old postal service stops delivering letters as digital communication takes over, leaving other European institutions watching nervously
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Robert Reich
2 months ago
The AI surveillance state is real â and it's being built by Palantir.
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Why Palantir is America's Most Dangerous Corporation
YouTube video by Robert Reich
https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=9Ve7vLwainXmugyq
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NiCHE Canada
2 months ago
Repast: The Story of Food -
@jennylinford.bsky.social
,
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/repast
#foodhistory
#aghist
#envhist
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Jenny Linford, "Repast: The Story of Food" (Thames & Hudson, 2025) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/repast
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What a pleasure to be interviewed by Dr Miranda Melcher about my book for the British Museum Repast: The Story of Food for
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Here's a link to the podcast.
newbooksnetwork.com/repast
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Jenny Linford, "Repast: The Story of Food" (Thames & Hudson, 2025) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/repast
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'Weâre gonna spend our money with businesses who actually respect our dollars, respect our communities, and respect our diversity, equity, and inclusion.' says We Ain't Buying It.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
on consumer power.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
2 months ago
November 24, 2025
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November 24, 2025
U.S.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-24-2025
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'But I have to wonder whether, in our desire to never repeat the crimes of the 80s, we have overcorrected â whether we have thrown the starfruit-necklaced piglet out with the bathwater.' Ruby Tandoh on the allure of entertaining Martha Stewart style.
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...
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Goblets of borscht, turkey-shaped madeleines: why Martha Stewartâs fantastical menus are still an inspiration
The lifestyle guruâs advice on 1980s entertaining was absurd â but reminds us that hosting should always be fun
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/nov/21/goblets-of-borscht-turkey-shaped-madeleines-martha-stewart-inspiration?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Richard Morris
2 months ago
Turner was the first âmodernâ painter; who directly inspired the impressionism of the 19thC and presaged the abstract expressionism of the 20thC. 'Evening Star,' (1830) is all the proof you need.
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Nicolette Jones
2 months ago
A chance to buy original artworks from Axel Scheffler, Rebecca Cobb, Sydney Smith and many others who have featured in
#NewIllustrationoftheDay
. Bidding starts on 28 November, and bids start at ÂŁ100.
@childrensbkshow.bsky.social
www.jumblebee.co.uk/thechildrens...
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The Children's Bookshow Art and Illustration Auction 2025
Make your bid in The Childrenâs Bookshow art and illustration auction and help support our programme of free in-school workshops in 2026.Each year, The Children's Bookshow gives 58 schools the incredi...
https://www.jumblebee.co.uk/thechildrensbookshowauction2025
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Led By Donkeys
2 months ago
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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Hetan Shah
3 months ago
Iâve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national
@britishlibrary.bsky.social
. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
https://www.cityam.com/the-british-library-is-in-crisis-why-does-nobody-care/
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'Ultra-processed food (UPF) is linked to harm in every major organ system of the human body and poses a seismic threat to global health, according to the worldâs largest review.'
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Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
Worldâs largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/18/ultra-processed-food-linked-to-harm-in-every-major-human-organ-study-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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"They still have big designs on hurting this stewardship institutionâ warns America's former National Parks Director.
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National parks facing ânightmareâ under Trump, warns ex-director of service
Jonathan Jarvis, who led the agency from 2009 to 2017, laid out the dire consequences of not closing parks in shutdown
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/14/national-park-service-trump-administration?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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'Whatâs at stake, then, isnât just representation: itâs the resilience and diversity of knowledge itself.'
@theguardian.com
Long Read
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What AI doesnât know: we could be creating a global âknowledge collapseâ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what weâre missing
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/nov/18/what-ai-doesnt-know-global-knowledge-collapse?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Charles Ornstein
3 months ago
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
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Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/14/trump-administration-removes-report-on-missing-and-murdered-native-americans-calling-it-dei-content/
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'Thatâs the thing about culture: it persists. Culture is what people pass down. It brings shared meaning into our lives.' Zadie Smith
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Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith
The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/11/britain-value-culture-striking-workers-a-british-library-zadie-smith
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Sarah Lloyd-Winder
3 months ago
Take a seat and we will tell all the traditional tales. We tell the stories, not read from a book, not learnt from a script, but told. See you @foodmuseumuk on Sunday 30th November from 10.30 onwards
#stories
#storytelling
#myth
#legend
#folklore
#traditional
#christmas
#fairy
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