Maggie McTernan
@maggsmct.bsky.social
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Episcopal priest, parliamentary staffer, ukulele player.
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Maggie McTernan
Emily
6 days ago
I have been confronted with an ad for Advent calendars and so it is time for the annual PSA: THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS BEGIN ON CHRISTMAS THEY ARE NOT ANY OF THE DAYS LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS THAT IS ADVENT WHICH BEGINS FOUR SUNDAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
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A film youâve seen more than seven times with a gif
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This trial seems to have been in Housing dept - genuinely donât see how teachers or care staff could reduce hours without need for extra staff to cover contact time. And if itâs only implemented in some council depts that leads to inequality between staff groups
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Business and charity leaders urge ministers to lead Englandâs transition to four-day week
Open letter signed by more than 100 leaders comes after local government secretary criticised a council for switching to shorter week
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/30/business-and-charity-leaders-urge-ministers-to-lead-englands-transition-to-four-day-week?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
10 days ago
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Lovely day for a walk in the snow
#Bärenbadalm
#ChaletSchool
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12 days ago
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Off to see the Boomtown Rats at the Barrowlands - like going to a live episode of
#TOTP2
22 days ago
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Just watched the first episode of Riot Women - itâs bloody brilliant and Iâm now going to start a rock band, whoâs in?
28 days ago
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Didnât think
@divinecomedyhq.bsky.social
could get any better tonight until
@katefoxwriter75.bsky.social
came on with a divine poem
#ShelvesInMyHead
#MyLovelyHorse
30 days ago
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First heard this poem read by Brian Patten himself - quite the most beautiful poem about loss and love
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Heading off on holiday with a wetsuit, a box of red wine, and a phone with a full set of In Our Time downloads, and I mean if I had to be defined as a person
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about 2 months ago
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Sharing an ecumenical pint with
@aidanmarshall.bsky.social
as I read this
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about 2 months ago
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Maggie McTernan
Marwood
about 2 months ago
6. Mainie Jellett, The Virgin of Eire (1940s)
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Maggie McTernan
LabourList
2 months ago
Angela Rayner's resignation was the correct thing to do. But the bigger story is how she was treated during her time in office. Macclesfield Cllr James Barber-Chadwick argues that Rayner's hounding is a result of prejudice against a working class woman.
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Angela Rayner's treatment shows the double standards that punish the ambition of working class women - LabourList
The treatment of Angela Rayner demonstrates that we must confront the double standards that punish working-class ambition.
https://labourlist.org/2025/09/rayner-class-farage-tice-tax/
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I see Sir Walter is dressing as a weegie these days
3 months ago
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Microsoft: this file is locked for editing by Maggie McTernan Me: but Iâm Maggie McTernan!
4 months ago
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Just back from a week walking St Cuthbertâs Way - some reflections on pilgrimage from my walk
maggietalksrubbish.blogspot.com/2025/07/st-c...
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St Cuthbert's Way
It started with the bus dropping us off in the wrong place. To be fair, the driver dropped us off where I asked him to, but it was the ...
https://maggietalksrubbish.blogspot.com/2025/07/st-cuthberts-way.html?m=1
4 months ago
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Canât wait to see headlines announcing how our political institutions, parties, and media have acted to address and drastically reduce the sexism and misogyny in politics though I fear I might be waiting a long time.
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4 months ago
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Home from the longest train journey on the longest night
5 months ago
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Well this is quite beautiful. Life takes us further from those weâve lost so we tell their stories to keep them with us, and toast them when we drink the champagne
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5 months ago
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Whatâs your sign?
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5 months ago
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Just noticed that the time sits tucked behind the Mourne Mountains on my phone and that makes me strangely happy
5 months ago
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Love a pub toilet that tells you how to get back to the bar
5 months ago
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Love a pub toilet that tells you how to get back to the bar
5 months ago
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I could have sworn I got on the train at Glasgow Central, how did I end up in Pride and Prejudice?
6 months ago
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FĂŠach cad a thĂĄinig sa phost inniu!
6 months ago
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Greatest Eurovision song of all time bar none
#TOTP
6 months ago
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Ah Tel â¤ď¸
#TOTP
6 months ago
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My hotel has a book exchange in the foyer, this one spoke to me
6 months ago
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Train sitting in the platform âawaiting eventsâ
6 months ago
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Interesting
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6 months ago
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This makes for distressing reading - we should be repealing the 1861 Act, not investigating more intrusively
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6 months ago
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Well this is better than much of what weâve heard tonight
#Eurovision
6 months ago
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âI was not expecting this!â - my godson to every second thing that is happening on
#Eurovision
6 months ago
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Just finished
#DoctorWho
and
6 months ago
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Tardis earrings and European necklace - Iâm ready for Saturday night, baby!
6 months ago
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Itâs the prettiest boy in the â80s *sigh*
#TOTP
6 months ago
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I recognise fewer than half the people singing Perfect Day
#TOTP
6 months ago
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Shamima Begum was trafficked and exploited, we should be protecting her, not stripping her of citizenship
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6 months ago
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âBe nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.â Lovely interview on
#Today
with Tom and James Holland on the significance of our siblings
6 months ago
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When I was little, my mum made a Pippa size dolls house for me and my sister - I still have it and use it as a bedside bookshelf
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6 months ago
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First time I came to Glasgow was to the Barrowlands to see The Alarm, the same year the sign was first switched on âď¸đś Gorgeous piece by
@peteralanross.bsky.social
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6 months ago
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I think we should institute a Rail Sunday, donât you think
@thurible.net
?
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6 months ago
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Maggie McTernan
Joe Dromey
6 months ago
The Fair Pay Agreement must be fully funded. Neither cash-strapped councils nor care providers operating on fine margins can absorb the cost of higher pay. Upcoming work from
@thefabians.bsky.social
out soon will set out how an ambitious FPA could tackle the care workforce crisis 4/6
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If I have to work on a Saturday, let it involve mediaeval reenactment
6 months ago
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Watching
#TOTP
on catch up and Kirsty McColl *sigh*
6 months ago
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If youâve never heard of Lise Meitner, treat yourself to todayâs
#InOurTime
to learn about once of the greatest c20th century physicists who was overlooked for a Nobel Prize because⌠well, youâll find out
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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In Our Time - Lise Meitner - BBC Sounds
The Austrian-Jewish physicist who, in 1938, solved the question of nuclear fission.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002bt7s?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
6 months ago
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Check the fax machine
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Unmanageable Revolutionaries - Women and Irish Nationalism, by Margaret Ward
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