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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 3h

#StainedGlassSunday quite the worst stained glass I’ve ever seen!! Zoom in to see what I mean ! S.Domenico in Siena #Siena #Italy

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 3h

Frances Cornford, Ascension Burial Ground, Cambridge. Her poem 'All Souls' was a favourite of Philip Larkin:

'My love came back to me
Under the November tree
Shelterless and dim.
He put his hand upon my shoulder,
He did not think me strange or older,
Nor I, him.'

#31DaysofGraves 12: notable woman

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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 14h

Has s/he ever read Chekhov short stories???

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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 14h

Siena by night #Siena #Italy

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 16h

Greater Anglia is renationalised: “The first service in public ownership will be the 4.10am Stansted Express from London Liverpool Street on Sunday morning.”

Greater Anglia joins public ownership after record year of performance

Passengers in East Anglia will travel on a publicly owned railway from Sunday, as Greater Anglia transfers to government control

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 1d

First I've heard of this. If it had been the other way around, Jenrick, Robinson, etc, would not have shut up about it.

'Alfie Franco, 20, has been jailed for life for a minimum of 23 years after murdering Syrian refugee, Ahmad Al Ibrahim, 16, in Huddersfield.'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Man jailed for at least 23 years for murdering Syrian boy in Huddersfield

Alfie Franco, 20, stabbed Ahmad Al Ibrahim after taking ‘petty exception’ to teenager brushing past his girlfriend

www.theguardian.com

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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 14h

#Apples #Autumn

Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social · 14h

Had a go at apple chutney today. So many people around the village have got an apple glut that you can't even give them away! #garden

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16h

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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loriagne.bsky.social @loriagne.bsky.social · 15h

‘Reform’s populist act cracks when the right people tell the truth about them’ labourlist.org/2025/08/nige... – via LabourList

'Reform's populist act cracks when the right people tell the truth about them' - LabourList

Voters trust each other in a way they’ll never trust SW1. And if the person making the case feels like ‘one-of-us’, Reform’s populist armour starts to crack.

labourlist.org

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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 14h

Basem Khandaqji, author of the Arab Booker award winning A Mask the Color of the Sky, is on the list of Palestinian prisoners to be released. May he see freedom soon!

His book is forthcoming in English @europaeditions.bsky.social
www.europaeditions.com/book/9798889...

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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 14h

#Siena #Italy that’s the third time we’ve visited and still haven’t ever gone up the Torre del Mangia. “ Closed due to technical difficulties “ today

San Domenico which houses the head of Santa Caterina (allegedly)

Il Campo Palazzo Pubblico and Torre del Mangia

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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 14h

We were in Pisa for 1/2 day, stayed last night. Now in Siena! Did you buy a house in Gramolazzo?

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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 15h

I’m sure you’re right, Steve!!

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[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 2d

🚨JUST IN: The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to María Corina Machado for "promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela."

Announcing the award at a ceremony in Oslo, the committee praised her "struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from #dictatorship to #democracy."

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of flag-botherers over on Facebook now suddenly demanding the council step in to take these down
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Signs of kindness put up along Nottingham road in place of flags

It is not clear who put up the signs, which have appeared on lamp-posts along a road in Nottingham.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 1d

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Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 1d

Deafening applause as Zia Yusuf shut down by Zack Polanski on Question Time #bbcqt

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/dea...

Deafening applause as Zia Yusuf shut down by Zack Polanski on Question Time

Zia Yusuf's anti-migrant rhetoric was perfectly shut down by Zack Polanski on this week's edition of Question Time, and the audience seemed to love it.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

The poorest people spend every penny they get. Cut their income, and you cut spending in every local economy.

The Tory plan to cut £47 billion out of government budgets is £47 billion less in everyone’s pockets | Prof Richard Murphy

@richardjmurphy.bsky.social - with thanks

What happens when £47 billion disappears from Britain’s economy?

Tory Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to take £47 billion out of the UK economy. That isn't prudence. It's managed decline

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 1d

Profiteers will cost the NHS an arm and a leg
The NHS, born in 1948 alongside me, has saved millions - yet today both major parties bleed it dry, trading care for corporate profit

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

Profiteers will cost the NHS an arm and a leg

The NHS, born in 1948 alongside me, has saved millions - yet today both major parties bleed it dry, trading care for corporate profit

northeastbylines.co.uk

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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 1d

This low-relief carving of the Crucifixion on a block of limestone probably dates from the 10th Century. It is framed by an altar consecrated in 2015. )taken from the Abbey website - refers to the carving on left)

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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 1d

I lived in Romsey in the 70s. Don’t think I appreciated the Abbey at the time !!

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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 1d

The splendour that is Pisa #Pisa #Italy Campo Miracoli

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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 1d

Should say GBR - Great British Railways

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loriagne.bsky.social @loriagne.bsky.social · 2d

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

bylinetimes.com

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 2d

#FindsFriday 🏺
Bronze chimera: likely emblem (episema) on C6 BC warrior's shield w lion's head on flame-like mane + scaly fierce snake striking from centre.
From high status tomb w arms, tools, ceramics + iron wheels of chariot excavated in Melfi, Basilicata.
Now in Nat Archaeological Museum there.

A large thin bronze decoration probably for a 6th C BC warrior's shield. At the top the head of a beast with a stylised lion's head and snout, on a long neck with incised flame-like mane, emerges from a scaly circle. This serves as the body of a fierce snake (which probably wrapped round the lion's body), which extends to the top right with a long head and open mouth, with wing below lower jaw.

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