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All coherent views still stolen from London Review of Books.
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Harry Pearson
10 days ago
Ted Heath on a skateboard. You're welcome.
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âWho wouldnât be excited by a new cheese?â said Helen.
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Aardman Rat Eating Cheese
ALT: Aardman Rat Eating Cheese
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Tom Rank
7 days ago
He's right, you know. "Speaking at the Royal Institution in his final laureate lecture, The Kids Are Not Alright, the childrenâs laureate linked falling shared reading rates to poverty, housing insecurity and social media."
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce calls for childrenâs reading to be treated as a ârightâ, in final laureate lecture
Speaking at the Royal Institution, the author and screenwriter linked falling literacy rates to poverty, housing insecurity and social media
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/14/frank-cottrell-boyce-calls-for-childrens-reading-to-be-treated-as-a-right-in-final-laureate-lecture?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Truth Tellers
7 days ago
The Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship in Investigative Journalism is an exceptional opportunity for early-career reporters to spend 6â8 months with
@reuters.com
investigations teams, with support from
@durham.ac.uk
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Dr Amit Patel on Instagram: "I was refused access to a @lidlgb store in London because Iâm blind and have a guide dog. Apparently the fact that the security guard hadnât seen me before and didnât know...
25K likes, 4,333 comments - blinddad_uk on May 8, 2026: "I was refused access to a @lidlgb store in London because Iâm blind and have a guide dog. Apparently the fact that the security guard hadnât se...
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Toby Earle đşđŚ
13 days ago
people who voted for a monorail to improve their lives have - despite the monorail making them poorer - voted for a new, more racist, & impoverishing monorail to improve their lives
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Truth Tellers
about 2 months ago
We asked summit co-host
@tinabrownlm.bsky.social
what issues her late husband Sir Harry Evans would be keen to tackle at Truth Tellers: âHe would have a lot to say about the media owners caving into Trump.â Tune in to Truth Tellers 2026 on 6 May at
sirharrysummit.org
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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove đ´ââ ď¸
16 days ago
"Street football is a global language, but spoken with a local accent" Out on 17 August via Pitch Publishing 'Street Football: The Real Grassroots of the Beautiful Game'
stanchionbooks.com/products/str...
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Ian McMillan
19 days ago
Early stroll. The pavement is a work of art thatâs Not For Sale. A bird lands on the head of a stone lion. The skyâs wealth of cloud, wealth of light. The low note vowels of a passing plane. A cat running like time does, quickly and silently.
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Ian McMillan
20 days ago
Frame these syllables Then they look like penned-up sheep Bleating in haiku
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This novel is glorious. That should do the trick for you
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Remember LOP
20 days ago
#MayDay
#LeedsHistory
#LeedsTUC
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@tuc.org.uk
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@peopleshistorylds.bsky.social
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Dave Haslam
20 days ago
A group dedicated to removing flags put up by some racist nutters on lampposts in Shrewsbury have trained multi cultural squirrels to shimmy up poles and eat the offending articles.
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Van3ssaV đŚ
21 days ago
They had 'Head Shear-an' & didn't use it đ Also 'The Nape Of You' Ffs, the goal was wide open.
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Jayne Moorby
21 days ago
Genius! This has all the makings of a comedy drama
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Scotland fans hire US school buses to dodge World Cup transport costs
Criticism has erupted after it emerged fans would be charged $80 for a train and $90 for a bus from Boston to the stadium in Foxborough.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3p1147gy4o
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Joel Morris
21 days ago
Oh, and, since itâs the subtext, there should be UBI. Or at least we should stop doing what we do to the poor for them to earn the name. They donât need to fucking tapdance in shit for our amusement.
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Joel Morris
21 days ago
Reminded me a bit of Carol Morleyâs Typist Artist Pirate King. Theyâd make a great double bill.
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Joel Morris
21 days ago
This is astonishing stuff. Itâs on the iPlayer and made me cry furiously. Itâs beautiful â basically about art and poverty, about access and what happens when talent strikes outside privilege. The rage in it is invigorating. And the art itself is incredible.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Tish Murtha used her camera to celebrate overlooked working-class lives and to fight for social change in 1980s Britain. Her daughter, Ella, uncovers her poignant story.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001xyrg
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Cinephilia & Beyond
2 months ago
âBut, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.â
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8bitnorthxstitch
about 1 month ago
Now MTV has stopped showing music videos, feast your eyes on these pop video xstitch designs instead. Cards available at
www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch
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James OâBrien
about 1 month ago
Listening to Kemi Badenoch and feeling almost envious of a life lived entirely undisturbed by reality.
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Helen Day
about 1 month ago
Beautiful everyday Ladybird things, part 87. Fuzzy Felt
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Pete Turton
about 1 month ago
Farage reckons itâs because of one really giant Hungarian family voting
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Max B đ đś đşđŚ đŹđ§ đŞđş
about 2 months ago
âHow lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil insteadâ- Spain Deputy Gabriel RufiĂĄn
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Missing The Point
about 2 months ago
Artemis II crew returning to Earth.
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Postcard From The Past
about 2 months ago
Roy has bought me a spoon for Easter.
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Robert Ellingsworth
about 2 months ago
This is gonna be worth something someday.
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Aaron Rupar
about 2 months ago
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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Toby Earle đşđŚ
about 2 months ago
*Claudia Winkleman walking around the disciplesâ dinner table, about to tap one of them on the shoulder*
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Paul Hayes
about 2 months ago
This BBC News Online piece will be the most effective publicity my new documentary about Flight into Danger gets. So if you have enjoyed the programme, think you may enjoy it, or are just a kind soul, if you could please share this anywhere you think it may be worth sharing, I'd be very grateful!
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The Luton writer behind the original Airplane!
How a play broadcast live on Canadian television in 1956 became the famous comedy film Airplane!.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24rd1xp4go
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Helen Day
about 2 months ago
Shopping With Mother, (1958) Mmm - fish tail and eels for tea! Artist: Harry Wingfield
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Postcard From The Past
about 2 months ago
Sheila is NOT happy.
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Postcard From The Past
about 2 months ago
Have sold my flat in Croydon but what a performance.
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Benjamin Myers
about 2 months ago
Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy.
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George Monbiot
about 2 months ago
These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."
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I had no idea that Billie Holiday was so popular in Ambridge.
#TheArchers
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Postcard From The Past
about 2 months ago
Today it is raining and last night it was very stormy. I am on duty today and I have to clean the toilets and I have gone stock car racing and could you tell mum to get somebody to pick me up saturday 8 o'clock night. Susan
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Lisa Holdsworth
about 2 months ago
Headline in today's Broadcast "Gary Barlow takes Jason Manford to New Zealand for ITV Travelogue" feels like the last straw. Stop telling us there's no money to make TV when you're sending dull millionaires on free holidays. FOR FUCK'S SAKE! Who is watching this shit? *eye twitch*
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Postcard From The Past
2 months ago
A bit annoyed because I arranged my whole week for you coming - only to receive a - to say the least - strange card from you. Please can you be definite about your dates as I am very busy businesswise.
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Dan Whitehead
2 months ago
The ITV Retro YouTube channel just uploaded one of the greatest movies ever made. It's sumptuous and sensual in a way that still amazes for a film that's almost 80 years old. Don't watch it on your phone though - this deserves the big telly.
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YouTube video by ITV Retro
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Douglas Cheape
2 months ago
Jesus, they werenât bloody joking.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
2 months ago
Hundreds of thousands of Muslims fought in the world wars. The armies that fought+won the second world war against fascism had an ethnic + faith mix that matches the Britain of 2025 more than that of 1939-45, so arrival of Windrush is the story of black RAF servicemen returning to Britain in 1948
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Postcard From The Past
2 months ago
Are you reading this now?
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Olaf Falafel
2 months ago
Looking for a family of three who donât like each other for Sundayâs family comedy show at the Arts Depot in Finchley
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Moose Allain
2 months ago
Banksyâs greatest trick is not remaining anonymous, itâs convincing a significant proportion of the populace that he has remained anonymous.
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Postcard From The Past
2 months ago
We didn't go to the place on the postcard it's just a spare one Gran had.
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I think the Driver of the car who dobbed George in was motivated by penis envy. So it was probably Mick after all.
#TheArchers
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