Susan Bruce
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‘Creating Horrid Henry’s gang of characters with alliterative names (Moody Margaret, Anxious Andrew, Sour Susan, Lazy Linda), each with a unique characteristic, was directly inspired by the medieval concept of the four humours: sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric, melancholic.’
Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon
I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon
www.theguardian.com
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aljazeera.com
US President Donald Trump told Israel’s parliament that PM Benjamin Netanyahu had often asked him for weapons during the Gaza war, including “some I’d never heard of.”

More than 67,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.
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lilusdi.bsky.social
Anyway. Free Palestine and End Antisemitism. These are not remotely conflicting statements.
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thedailyshow.com
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
susanbruce409.bsky.social
Thanks for posting this excellent letter
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profdanhicks.bsky.social
Great to see this cross-community response to Mr Jenrick
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
English ceramics designer Clarice Cliff, her Art Deco Diamonds Conical Pattern Tea set, 1930 #womensart
Photo of an angular shaped tea set with two cups and saucers, a teapot, a plate, a sugar bowl and a milk jug, all decorated with painted angular shapes in orange, black, blue and yellow
susanbruce409.bsky.social
So much courage. So much dignity. So much integrity and commitment to a better future. #GisèlePelicot
susanbruce409.bsky.social
It is still everyday sexism. ‘Little old ladies’ is patronising and demeaning (and clichèd to boot). You can be just as sympathetic if you use language that is not demeaning and sexist.
susanbruce409.bsky.social
Agree with the sentiment but why does James O’B feel the need to patronise ‘little old ladies’? Why not say ‘elderly women’ or even ‘elderly women and elderly men’? #EverydaySexism is just as irritating when it comes from the left.
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felicityhannah.bsky.social
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first 

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
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jntod.bsky.social
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5
susanbruce409.bsky.social
Thanks for posting such a lovely moving poem.
susanbruce409.bsky.social
‘any time a university is attacked, there should be 500 university presidents standing up together, or 1,000 boards of trustees standing up together and saying, ‘We’re in solidarity.’ And that would send such a different message.”’
Give In or Fight Back? Colleges Are Torn on How to Respond to Trump.
www.nytimes.com
susanbruce409.bsky.social
‘Kennedy said: “We cannot accept language that pushes destructive gender ideology …[or] claims of a constitutional or international right to abortion …”

There is no mention of reproductive rights or gender in the declaration except in reference to specific challenges facing women.’
US refuses to back UN declaration on noncommunicable diseases
General assembly backs new targets on cancer, diabetes and heart disease but Robert F Kennedy Jr objects
www.theguardian.com
susanbruce409.bsky.social
“In the Celtic Sea fishermen were permitted to take almost the entire remaining population of cod — 644 tonnes out of an adult population thought to weigh 645 — so long as they were caught as “bycatch” in the search for other fish.”
UK cod rationing would mean one fish supper for every 1,200 people
Scientists from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, have called on the government to let populations recover in 2026
www.thetimes.com
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greenevillezoo.bsky.social
RIP Desi the Praying Mantis, taken too soon. He died doing what he loved best.