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Solvitur ambulando - a Sea Walker - BBC/ITV Music
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Agnes C. Poirier
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The Louvre is the pride of France â and itâs on the verge of collapse. Can we rescue it in time? | AgnĂšs Poirier
From a jewel heist to crumbling galleries, itâs been a dire year for the worldâs most visited museum. At least France has woken up to its predicament, says political commentator AgnĂšs Poirier
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/30/louvre-paris-france-collapse-jewel-heist-world-museum
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Isabel Hilton
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Make America Bankrupt Again: Bankruptcies soar as companies grapple with inflation, tariffs - The Washington Post
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Social Media Lab
9 days ago
As China and the EU go green... "Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast. The Interior Department said the projects posed national security risks, without providing details. The decision imperils billions of dollars of investments." This will hurt for decades.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
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Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/climate/trump-offshore-wind-farms.html
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Prem Sikka
8 days ago
"We have to have it", says Trump about Greenland. The felon has attacked Syria and Iran; threatened Nigeria and South Africa; wants to annex Venezuela, Panama, Canada, Gaza; started tariff wars Trump stupidity will erode US power, encourage more states to go nuclear & build alternative alliances.
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Trump says US needs Greenland after naming special envoy
Denmark warns Washington to respect its sovereignty, while Greenland says it will decide its own future.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgmd132ge4o
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Sam Read Bookseller
8 days ago
âđWe're open on Christmas Eve until 5pm. From 4pm you can join in the carols on Moss Parrock and drift in for your last minute presents. After that, we'll be back open again on Saturday 27th December at 10am!đâ
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Nicola Chester
12 days ago
Chatting all things writing &
#GhostsoftheFarm
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@pennypostwb.bsky.social
(whose weekly local news is always an extensive, positive, informative joy to read)
www.mixcloud.com/4legsradio/n...
@chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social
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The Local Eco Show - 12th December 2025
Local nature writer and award-winning author Nicola Chester discusses her latest book Ghosts of the Farm, the role of women in agriculture and the relationship between farming, community and wildlife ...
https://www.mixcloud.com/4legsradio/nicola-chester-interview/
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Julian Hoffman
12 days ago
This summer was the first time I'd seen the shocking phenomenon of fir forests in the Peloponnese scattered with brown and dying trees. Sudden changes to once resilient systems as a result of cumulative pressures triggered by a heating climate.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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They survived wildfires. But something else is killing Greeceâs iconic fir forests
In the Peloponnese mountains, the usually hardy trees are turning brown even where fires havenât reached. Experts are raising the alarm on a complex crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/19/survived-wildfires-drought-killing-greece-fir-forests-aoe
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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner
2 months ago
British icon, hilarious comic & bird-kind âŠâȘBill BaileyâŹâ© thinks securing homes for birds reliant on cavity nesting habitat is an ace idea. The swift brick debate is tomorrow. Help the birds. Email SWIFT BRICKS to
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Lulu Allison
2 months ago
If any of the big publishers disappeared the others would just swallow and churn, so no loss. But imagine what the world of books would be without independent publishers? Doesnât bear thinking about. Congratulations Kevin and Hetha, so glad you dared.
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Anyone in the Cabinet listening?
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Lev Parikian
3 months ago
This is excellent
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Welfare cuts, oh yes of course that is why we voted for them
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Oleksandra Matviichuk
3 months ago
I always come to Prague with joy. This time it was literally half a day. At the Forum, which VĂĄclav Havel founded, I talked about our PeopleFirst campaign. We are returning the human dimension to political processes.
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Martin Doyle
3 months ago
Colm TĂłibĂn on The Poems of Seamus Heaney: For those familiar with Heaneyâs work, the new poems will keep them going well beyond Christmas. But soon, the core of the book will matter more â the 12 volumes Heaney published in his lifetime placed in sequence.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Colm TĂłibĂn on The Poems of Seamus Heaney: âA process of finding echoes and associationsâ
This book contains Heaneyâs unpublished poems plus all those from his single books of poetry published
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2025/10/11/colm-toibin-on-the-poems-of-seamus-heaney-a-process-of-finding-echoes-and-associations/
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Prem Sikka
3 months ago
Farage/Reform and the Trump playbook. Mass sackings of unsympathetic civil servants Promise to reduce workers's rights Inflict spending cuts - hit the poor, old, sick, disabled Now claims teachers are âpoisoning our kidsâ - just as Nazis did to control education. Power grab by dividing society.
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Nigel Farage accuses teachers of âpoisoning our kidsâ on race issues
Exclusive: Reform UK leaderâs remarks at event for private US college criticised as âgrossly irresponsibleâ by NEU leader
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/09/nigel-farage-says-uk-teachers-are-poisoning-our-kids-and-predicts-strikes-as-pm
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Something to grasp and treasure. In these uncertain times. Although I wonder about unpublished work being posthumously released. đ€
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Seamus Heaneyâs unpublished poems to be released â read one exclusively here
The Poems of Seamus Heaney, out on Thursday, will feature all 12 of the revered Irish authorâs collections alongside uncollected works and 25 poems yet to be published
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/07/the-poems-of-seamus-heaney-published-on-thursday-will-feature-all-12-of-the-revered-irish-authors-collections-alongside-25-previously-unknown-works
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continuing a tour of Norfolk churches.Following in the footsteps of an ancestor who wrote a book on all of them.Which sadly was not published and is now lost. Here St Margaretâs Antioch near Felbrigg Hall.Where the old village used to be ..here in autumn golden sunshine after a tiring day. Bliss.
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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner
4 months ago
74 MPs have signed the EDM for swifts. WOOHOOO!!!!! If yours hasnât, email
[email protected]
for a template you can send to them. Itâs so easy & also vital. And they can represent your view in about 2 minutes.
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Heâs a disgrace
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Jorie Graham
4 months ago
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich
Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/09/the-gaza-family-torn-apart-by-idf-snipers-from-chicago-and-munich
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Worth reading then thinking about ..
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Read and be transported.
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Shame on us all
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Oh wonderful
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Michael J. Warren
4 months ago
Just a week until Iâm at Toppings Books in Ely! Couldnât be better: Ely cathedral and itâs old marshes is on the front cover of
#thecuckooslea
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www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/ely/w...
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Michael J Warren at First Floor, Topping & Company Booksellers of Ely
https://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/ely/warren/
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One to seek out.
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Kaja Kallas
4 months ago
Russiaâs war is escalating, not ending. We must raise the cost on Moscow, strengthen support for Ukraine, and invest in Europeâs defence. The EU plays a major role and we will support initiatives like the Eastern Border Shield defence line. (2/2)
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Lev Parikian
5 months ago
Me, in The Guardian, wanging on about kingfishers (and other things).
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Country diary: A wildlife haven on the fringe of the city | Lev Parikian
Edinburgh: Otters upstream, a tern colony down ⊠Iâm happy to be somewhere in-between watching dippers and wagtails
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/18/country-diary-a-wildlife-haven-on-the-fringe-of-the-city
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Yaroslava
5 months ago
To make your feed a bit more beautiful today: A view of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv.
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why arenât we helping to fight to save thisâŠharder and faster!
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Polly Atkin
5 months ago
Tomorrow!
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Yaroslava
5 months ago
Would it give your readers a quiet pause or a deeper glimpse into Ukraine beyond the war? Does it say something, even if small, about life, land, or people? Then yes, publish it. My new letter shares a story from the Carpathians. Available for Patreon supporters
www.patreon.com/posts/136303...
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âFrom this height, close up, A spiderâs web is like the rigging of a shop..â. đ«
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MB Weaver
5 months ago
Maybe the correct headline is: Maybe Mamdani is the answer the Dems need and the future the country needs:
www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/p...
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Analysis: Do Democrats have a Zohran Mamdani problem? | CNN Politics
Ever since Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for New York City mayor two months ago, Republicans have been licking their chops, and prominent Democrats have been squirming.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/politics/zohran-mamdani-democrats-analysis
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A Guy Named Brian (he/him)
5 months ago
Could the tide be shifting? đ€ âDemocratic strategist Max Burns told the Washington Examiner Obamaâs support for Mamdani could reveal something changing within the Democratic party. âIf heâs comfortable letting his name be linked to Mamdani so directly, ⊠(1/2)
www.theroot.com/obama-offers...
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Obama Offers Advice to This Controversial Political Candidate That Everyone Should Be Paying Attention to | The Root
Many New Yorkers feel like Zohran Mamdani represents a new wave of hope for Democrats, which is reminiscent of Barack Obama's presidential campaigns.
https://www.theroot.com/obama-offers-advice-to-this-controversial-political-can-2000056064
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Chelsea Green Publishing
5 months ago
Mark your calendars for Sept. 30!
@nicolawriting.bsky.social
's GHOSTS OF THE FARM is highly anticipated as: â "a Nan Shepherd of our time"â@themarshtit.bsky.social "exquisite prose"â@authorrhysbowen.bsky.social "heartening, haunted & beautifully written"â@robbiecowen.bsky.social
#BookSky
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Prem Sikka
5 months ago
Right wing coup = profits for corporations. Services privatised. Adult social care, profit margins of up to 42%. Privately owned cataract surgeries, profit margins 32% - 43%. Childrenâs care homes average profits of 23%. Public money buys less. Higher taxes to pay for corporate profits.
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How we can fight back against the right-wing coup
For a better future the power of corporations and wealthy elites must be curbed and reversed
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/08/how-we-can-fight-back-against-the-right-wing-coup/
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Prem Sikka
6 months ago
Pockets picked Big pharma made ÂŁ12bn excess profit from just 10 NHS drugs; profit mark-ups up to 23,000%. Energy companies ÂŁ514bn operating profit since 2020. England Water companies ÂŁ85bn in dividends, dump sewage in rivers. Govts subservient to corporations. Abuses continue. Wither democracy.
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Taming corporations is the key issue of our times
To appease corporations, people may raze mountains, divert rivers, clear forests, cover countryside in tarmac and shower subsidies upon them, but they have no loyalty to any place, people or product.
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/07/taming-corporations-is-the-key-issue-of-our-times/
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Steve Rosenberg
6 months ago
I play out Wimbledon 2025 with the classic BBC Wimbledon theme âSporting Occasionâ by Arnold Steck.
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Yorkshire Dales National Park
6 months ago
The heatwave is back, and the fire risk is high. Please help keep the countryside safe. đ„ No barbecues or campfires đŸ Take glass bottles and jars home đŹ Dispose of cigarettes properly đ If you see a fire, call 999 With thanks North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue
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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner
6 months ago
If you find a grounded swift, it needs expert & urgent help. Please contact me so I can link to rehabber. These birds canât easily take off from the ground & in hot weather, chicks who đ like this arenât quite able to fly & often are pushed or jump out of their nests.
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RSPB
6 months ago
Cute Swift fact: Swifts' Latin name 'Apus apus' comes from the Greek 'a pous' which means 'without foot'. Their legs are so short it was believed they didnât have any feet! đ đ
#SwiftAwarenessWeek
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Frances Ryan
6 months ago
Iâm always pro-disabled people leading what affects them but the reality is, many disabled and chronically ill people are paying a huge physical price for fighting tomorrowâs welfare bill. Many are suffering more pain and exhaustion from campaigning, all whilst in a brutal heatwave. 1/2
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Kaja Kallas
6 months ago
Happy to be in Armenia and meet President Khachaturyan. We discussed deepening of EU-Armenia relations, EU support to reforms and building resilience and prosperity. It is key to ensure peace and stability in the region.
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Yaroslava
6 months ago
Emotions. I just finished reading and replying to all the words under my latest letter. Thank you! Recently, I was accused of being greedy - of thinking only about money - when I thanked my Patreon supporters. The truth is, my supporters help me do something truly important: write about Ukraine.
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Anne Applebaum
6 months ago
The Russians, who have been murdering Ukrainian civilians and bombing cities for three years, are suddenly very worried about "gross violation of international law" and "global and regional security"
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/22/r...
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