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Gill Cookson

@gillint.bsky.social

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Historian of 18th/19th-c. industrialisation. Northerner, lefty, deluded optimist. No racists, genocide apologists etc. Book now out: https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651412/making-an-industrial-revolution and here's the blog post: buff.ly/3W1JJgH

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Gill Cookson @gillint.bsky.social · 10h

I never thought I’d see the words ‘Farage’ and ‘tampons’ in the same sentence.

Gill Cookson @gillint.bsky.social · 10h

Let’s hope they taste as good as the scones.

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 15h

I mean, this is really desperate shit, isn’t it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly can’t be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the men’s toilets and neither should you

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

live your life in such a way that the entire world doesn't laugh its ass off when you don't get the Nobel Peace Prize

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Gill Cookson @gillint.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a gross over-simplification. Houses aren’t universally ‘cheap in the north-east’. Far from it.

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Gill Cookson @gillint.bsky.social · 1d

As a Labour member - surely, yes.

As a peer - only disqualified if it’s a parliamentary election…

Gill Cookson @gillint.bsky.social · 1d

This !!!!!

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 2d

for World Mental Health Day from 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb', my most recent book of poetry

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 1d

ANTIFA:

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 2d

This is #BookyMcBookface sailing back from Rousay this afternoon. 💨🌊 #Orkney

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 4d

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 4d

Move to a country that doesn't accept immigrants.

Can you see a problem with this plan?

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Arianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · 4d

A British academic is tracking the Dictator in the WH’s authoritarian acts since taking office in Jan.

It tracks illegalities, unconst’l acts, abuses of power - anything undermining democracy & propping up authoritarianism.

Tally is at 1466 authoritarian acts.

🆘🇺🇸

www.trumpactiontracker.info?

www.trumpactiontracker.info

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Gill Cookson @gillint.bsky.social · 4d

Then you are perfectly equipped. Please pontificate.

Gill Cookson @gillint.bsky.social · 4d

No one from the land of Costa is qualified to comment on continental coffee.

Gill Cookson @gillint.bsky.social · 4d

Wonderful! Some people have the power to cut through all the crap, and give faith to the rest of us.

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 4d

Love this man. #Hero

#Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

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Gill Cookson @gillint.bsky.social · 4d

#NHS is still a model for the world. Created because it makes sense, in human terms and also economics.
Irony that it’s now seen as radical to fight for that principle, against a Labour government.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 7d

The Daily Mail owner, the Grandfather of the current owner, posing with Adolf Hitler.

The Daily Mail has always been Far Right trash.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7d

The obscene face of Christian Nationalism: outlandish untaxed wealth in defiance of Jesus. Oh, and this time, slave laborers, too! Glory!

Just remember, for any money you give to Heaven, there is always a 100% handling fee here on Earth.

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 7d

I look forward to Badenough screaming "don't you know who I am??" as masked agents scoop her off a Westminster street for the crime of being Black in a public place

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands. The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Continue reading...

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Gill Cookson @gillint.bsky.social · 7d

Happy birthday, Gary!

Gill Cookson @gillint.bsky.social · 7d

Also - as I just learned from your post - Newsom is markedly taller, and nothing irritates Trump more.

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Gill Cookson @gillint.bsky.social · 7d

And he actually *answers the question*. Can’t recall when I last saw a politician do that.

Gill Cookson @gillint.bsky.social · 8d

If there’s a strange woman scratching at a window frame, best not open it.

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Gill Cookson @gillint.bsky.social · 8d

I seem to have woken up in the 1970s.

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 8d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 8d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19d

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"

"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people"

-Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

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