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Hugh Jackson @hugeaction.bsky.social · 5h

His Tory politics are not mine but I often agree with him and his achievements outside of politics are notable. Imagine pretty much anyone in the current crop across parties building up a major publishing house or having the imagination, & inquiring vision & passion to plant an arboretum.

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Hugh Jackson @hugeaction.bsky.social · 16h

Missed the first hour so going back in for more punishment #totp

Hugh Jackson @hugeaction.bsky.social · 16h

Feels quite quaint that Simon Mayo is announcing areas that receiving Radio1 in stereo on new FM transmitters 1990! #TOTP

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tomgiberson.bsky.social @tomgiberson.bsky.social · 22h

Seems familiar

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

it's giving Germania

"On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial"

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Shropshire (Salop) @shropshireuk.bsky.social · 1d

Average speed camera delays leave PCC frustrated

#Shropshire

🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

Average speed camera 'delay' on A41 frustrates crime commissioner

John Campion urges councils to fit them on the A41 as soon as possible after "three years of delay".

www.bbc.com

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, there were some teachers in the 70s/early 80s who thought that kids going around spewing out racist bile and writing "NF" on blackboards had extreme right prejudices.

Yep, about time someone got them in line.

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Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Hugh Jackson @hugeaction.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure there's a plaque (or some commemoration) in the Castleton Losehill YHA to Friedrich Engels who purportedly stayed there? Well before YHA status but presumably he would approve of its current accessibility to the masses.
More regular visitors than me may be able to confirm this.

Hugh Jackson @hugeaction.bsky.social · 2d

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Cultured Cousins – The Work of Three Irish Architects: Yvonne Farrell and Shelly McNamara – Grafton Architects

Join the Shropshire Society of Architects for the second lecture in their fantastic Autumn 2025 Series: Cultured Cousins – The Work of Three Irish Architects. This next instalment features none other ...

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Hugh Jackson @hugeaction.bsky.social · 2d

Shrewsbury Society of Architects at The Hive.

They're doing a series on Irish Architects. This was the second of three. Last month was Shane de Blacam who worked with/for Louis Kahn

RA Architecture Prize winner 2023 Shane de Blacam | Royal Academy of Arts www.royalacademy.org.uk/page/shane-d...

RA Architecture Prize winner 2023 Shane de Blacam | Royal Academy of Arts

Working predominantly in Ireland, De Blacam’s buildings are characterised by their simplicity and their celebration of local materials.

www.royalacademy.org.uk

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Hugh Jackson @hugeaction.bsky.social · 2d

There was that too.

Hugh Jackson @hugeaction.bsky.social · 2d

Hah! I had just worked it out based on the post bemoaning the state of Birmingham's planning department combined with the DnD reference in the bio!
Went to an amazing lecture last night by Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects. Proud to have lived to see the triumph of critical regionalism!

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 2d

Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024.

Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Hugh Jackson @hugeaction.bsky.social · 2d

Yes very much so. I think back in the 1950s it seemed appropriate as green harked back to that pastoral idyll rather than the modern sense of environmental consciousness.

Hugh Jackson @hugeaction.bsky.social · 2d

It's early days & there is of course a lot of local resistance but this will see development happening over the next couple of years.

Hugh Jackson @hugeaction.bsky.social · 2d

Labour's significant introduction of 'grey belt' goes a long way to release land in the green belt for development where there is an unmet need (primarily for housing), it is a location with good access to services it's in the context of other developments and doesn't cause merging of towns.

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Hugh Jackson @hugeaction.bsky.social · 2d

A fundamental issue is that 'green belt' is a poor description as it is a spatial rather than environmental planning policy.
It is fundamentally a development exclusion zone where all new development is inappropriate save for a limited number of exceptions including redevelopment of brownfield land.

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History Today @historytoday.com · 2d

The expulsion of England’s Jews began #OnThisDay 735 years ago

The first year of Edward I’s reign saw waves of strictures placed on a Jewish community in an already perilous situation.

🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days

www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Edward I’s Destruction of England’s Jews

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 2d

Asking people to pay for goods would kill the shoplifting industry ...

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 2d

I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye

Cartoon. Two people standing on a stage looking at a third person who is jumping down through a trap door. In the foreground we see the backs of the audience’s heads. One standing people observes “It’s just a stage he’s going through”

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3d

In the current climate of far right hostility, Jenrick is actively inciting violence against these judges with this. Badenoch may have defended his explicit racism yesterday, but this alone should see him lose both his position as shadow justice secretary and the whip immediately.

#r4today

Robert Jenrick names judges he would sack for ‘pro-migrant bias'

The shadow justice secretary has accused 'activists' within the judiciary of having links to political causes that compromise their independence

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 3d

The Rees Moggs will still do History degrees. The Johnsons will still do Classics.
Sadly, the Wilsons from South Bank in Middlesbrough won't get the intellectual stimulation of studying a subject of interest for a degree.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

Jenrick being the loudest member of the Conservative party has already been a huge contributor to the poisoning of our politics. We really don't need any four-dimensional chess about him becoming leader. When it happens, it will be a terrible day for our country.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 4d

A Tory party under Jenrick might take a few of the racist votes from Reform, but they’d haemorrhage bucketloads to the Lib Dems.

So, on balance…

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