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Ian Beckett
@ianbharlow.bsky.social
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Respect commands respect. Occasional commentator. Occasional artist. Occasional overthinker. Lejlighedsvis Dansk Student. #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealth
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Ian Beckett @ianbharlow.bsky.social · 6d
Happy Sunday, Monday, Tuesday……
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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 9d
Happy National Poetry Day 2025!
Here is the profound MICHAEL ROSEN reading FASCISM.
#NationalPoetryDay
#MichaelRosen
#ProfoundPoetry
#PoetryMatters
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Fascism - Michael Rosen For Adults
YouTube video by Michael Rosen For Adults
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Ian Beckett @ianbharlow.bsky.social · 9d
Inspired by the picture by Eleonor Dan, I wrote “Bang Goes Beauty” on #NationalPoetryDay 2025, for @harlowstanza.bsky.social and THE WORLD
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Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · 14d
Happy #caturday! #eastcoastkin #photography
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Bob Mayer @bobmayer.bsky.social · 14d
Another gargoyle reading in the wild.
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Allan Hailstone @allhails.bsky.social · 14d
Berlin Wall at Bernauer Strasse, 27 August 1962. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 unique historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing). #Berlin
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🕊️KatarinaKriz🕊️On the turning away~Pink Floyd @katarinakriz.bsky.social · 14d
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Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social · 21d
Mother's Tears, first published in the Starbeck Orion, 2025, editor Paul Brookes.
#thestarbeckorion
#poetryreadings
#livepoetry
#spilledink
#poetryisnotdead
#poemsaboutrelationships
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MOTHER'S TEARS by Carmella de Keyser
YouTube video by Poetry with Carmella
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Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social · 15d
So proud that I and other members of our beautiful poetry stanza family will be performing a live acoustic set at Harlow Pride 2025!
#HarlowCircleofPoetry
#StanzasForPride
#HarlowPride
#StrongerTogether
#CommunityMatters
#BigUpHarlow
#NationalPoetrySociety
Harlow Pride Advert 2025. Harlow Circle of Poetry logo designed by Vanya Milanova.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 15d
The Duke of York has resurfaced in files relating to Jeffrey Epstein as a passenger on the paedophile financier’s jet – with a reference also made to X owner Elon Musk potentially visiting the sex offender’s island.

Read more: www.lbc.co.uk/article/prin...
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Ian Beckett @ianbharlow.bsky.social · 16d
This 👇👇👇
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Ian Beckett @ianbharlow.bsky.social · 16d
All Our Yesterdays:
Harlow 1981 - my monthly blog for Your Harlow.Com www.yourharlow.com/2025/09/25/a...
All Our Yesterdays: The Harlow Town Show of 1981 - Your Harlow
All Our Yesterdays – a monthly look at Harlow in years gone by.By Ian Beckett ANYONE who was born or lived in Harlow during the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s is likely to have fond memories of the Town Sh...
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Ian Beckett @ianbharlow.bsky.social · 16d
Good taste!
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Craigie 🇵🇸 🚩☮️🔻Proudly Un-British @craigsmive.bsky.social · 16d
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The far right is hijacking the cross — and institutions are letting it happen
When far-right groups succeed in linking religion with nationalism via the cross, they create a dangerous moral cover for racism
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Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · 17d
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Ian Beckett @ianbharlow.bsky.social · 19d
Can you hear me Orangutan?
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Ian Beckett @ianbharlow.bsky.social · 19d
I love Denmark for many reasons. Including this! Skål!! 🍻
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Rob Schamberger @robschamberger.bsky.social · 23d
My therapist is quite a bit younger than me and didn’t get my reference to the past week feeling like I was surrounded by pod people. “Invasion of the Body Snatchers?”
Blank stare with a slow shake of the head. So I described the movie’s plot.
“Oh yeah, that’s exactly what it’s like right now.”
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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 23d
Gentle reminder that our next stanza meeting is on the 25th September at 17.00-19.00.
Our theme - BORDERS and BOUNDARIES.
Please see details below 👇🏻
#PoetryStanzas
#EssexPoetryStanzas
#WritersSupportingWriters
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Ian Beckett @ianbharlow.bsky.social · 22d
Oh, Dodo!
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Ian Beckett @ianbharlow.bsky.social · 22d
For mothers of the past - thank you.
For mothers of the future - may the weight be lifted off your shoulders, as we learn to share our burdens.
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Ian Beckett @ianbharlow.bsky.social · 23d
In the gift shop at Windsor Castle, England
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Ian Beckett @ianbharlow.bsky.social · 24d
You’re welcome Mr President.
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Ian Beckett @ianbharlow.bsky.social · 25d
Meanwhile in Buck House, London
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🕊️KatarinaKriz🕊️On the turning away~Pink Floyd @katarinakriz.bsky.social · Sep 7
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