Judith H, #FBPE 🔶️
@musicienne.bsky.social
Retired charity finance manager, charity Trustee, loves Africa, music (classical/world), former musician (clarinet, double bass), francophone, citizen of the world, 🌍 East of England
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Thanks for all the follows. I will follow back #FBPE accounts. I don't want to follow back too many USA accounts, as don't want my timeline full of American stuff. Please unfollow if that bothers you.
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Happy Winter Solstice, one and all - and welcome back, Light ✨
And thank you @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social for allowing me to share your magical Winter Fox and Solstice Blessings painting!
#wintersolstice
And thank you @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social for allowing me to share your magical Winter Fox and Solstice Blessings painting!
#wintersolstice
December 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Happy Winter Solstice, one and all - and welcome back, Light ✨
And thank you @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social for allowing me to share your magical Winter Fox and Solstice Blessings painting!
#wintersolstice
And thank you @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social for allowing me to share your magical Winter Fox and Solstice Blessings painting!
#wintersolstice
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The American Department of Justice has removed the image of two photos of Donald Trump on Epstein's desk.
Even the cover-up was botched.
Even the cover-up was botched.
December 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The American Department of Justice has removed the image of two photos of Donald Trump on Epstein's desk.
Even the cover-up was botched.
Even the cover-up was botched.
December 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I can't believe it! The Gov is reviewing state pension age; this could mean we're forced to work till we're much older 😑. Right now it's just being reviewed, so I hope we can create enough outcry to get them to back down. I've signed a petition against it, will you join me + add yr name? 38d.gs/3jdr
Sign the petition: Say NO to upping the retirement age
Want to retire into your 70s? A Government review of the state pension age could see all of us forced to work longer. Yet again targeting ordinary people to plug funding gaps, instead of the mega-rich...
38d.gs
December 19, 2025 at 6:30 AM
I can't believe it! The Gov is reviewing state pension age; this could mean we're forced to work till we're much older 😑. Right now it's just being reviewed, so I hope we can create enough outcry to get them to back down. I've signed a petition against it, will you join me + add yr name? 38d.gs/3jdr
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Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
December 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
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So far Zack Polanski is the only political leader of a mass membership party to come out in support of the hunger strikers. Meanwhile the Justice Secretary refuses even to reply to MPs demanding an urgent meeting to avert what could well be the tragic deaths of unconvicted prisoners. Shameful.
Solidarity with the hunger strikers.
It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction.
All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.
It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction.
All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.
December 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
So far Zack Polanski is the only political leader of a mass membership party to come out in support of the hunger strikers. Meanwhile the Justice Secretary refuses even to reply to MPs demanding an urgent meeting to avert what could well be the tragic deaths of unconvicted prisoners. Shameful.
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Finally, Labour is finding its nerve and getting Britain’s bad Brexit deal undone | Polly Toynbee
Finally, Labour is finding its nerve and getting Britain’s bad Brexit deal undone | Polly Toynbee
Rejoining Erasmus should just be a first step – as the economic evidence piles up, the need for closer ties with Europe could not be clearer, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Finally, Labour is finding its nerve and getting Britain’s bad Brexit deal undone | Polly Toynbee
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👇🏼2 days ago Farage played victim yet again sitting in gallery at #PMQs alleging it’s rigged so he can’t ask one
Yesterday he was number 6👇🏼to question Sec of State of Environment & Rural Affairs to ask ‘What steps she is taking to Support farmers’
He couldn’t be arsed to turn up for the farmers🤷🏼♂️
Yesterday he was number 6👇🏼to question Sec of State of Environment & Rural Affairs to ask ‘What steps she is taking to Support farmers’
He couldn’t be arsed to turn up for the farmers🤷🏼♂️
December 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
👇🏼2 days ago Farage played victim yet again sitting in gallery at #PMQs alleging it’s rigged so he can’t ask one
Yesterday he was number 6👇🏼to question Sec of State of Environment & Rural Affairs to ask ‘What steps she is taking to Support farmers’
He couldn’t be arsed to turn up for the farmers🤷🏼♂️
Yesterday he was number 6👇🏼to question Sec of State of Environment & Rural Affairs to ask ‘What steps she is taking to Support farmers’
He couldn’t be arsed to turn up for the farmers🤷🏼♂️
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In the gloom, there are points of light - and what connects them is courage. Last column of 2025 offers some reasons to be hopeful www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
At the dark end of a brutal year, I’m grateful to these heroes for showing us the light | Jonathan Freedland
From Palestinians standing up to Hamas to the Bondi beach rescuers, great acts of courage offer hope even in the bleakest times, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
In the gloom, there are points of light - and what connects them is courage. Last column of 2025 offers some reasons to be hopeful www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I am genuinely shocked.. shocked I say❗️ Farage has the flat cap, he’s got the waxed jacket, he’s got the check shirt, the cords, he drinks pints with the farmers.. goes to protests where there’s a photo op
Then he gets chance to represent them in HOP and doesn’t turn up.. shocked I tell you 🤷🏼♂️
Then he gets chance to represent them in HOP and doesn’t turn up.. shocked I tell you 🤷🏼♂️
👇🏼2 days ago Farage played victim yet again sitting in gallery at #PMQs alleging it’s rigged so he can’t ask one
Yesterday he was number 6👇🏼to question Sec of State of Environment & Rural Affairs to ask ‘What steps she is taking to Support farmers’
He couldn’t be arsed to turn up for the farmers🤷🏼♂️
Yesterday he was number 6👇🏼to question Sec of State of Environment & Rural Affairs to ask ‘What steps she is taking to Support farmers’
He couldn’t be arsed to turn up for the farmers🤷🏼♂️
December 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I am genuinely shocked.. shocked I say❗️ Farage has the flat cap, he’s got the waxed jacket, he’s got the check shirt, the cords, he drinks pints with the farmers.. goes to protests where there’s a photo op
Then he gets chance to represent them in HOP and doesn’t turn up.. shocked I tell you 🤷🏼♂️
Then he gets chance to represent them in HOP and doesn’t turn up.. shocked I tell you 🤷🏼♂️
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Donald Trump has openly sought to interfere in European politics, including the UK.
The Government must expand its foreign interference investigation to include the US administration. Our politics must be free from outside influence, wherever it comes from.
The Government must expand its foreign interference investigation to include the US administration. Our politics must be free from outside influence, wherever it comes from.
December 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Donald Trump has openly sought to interfere in European politics, including the UK.
The Government must expand its foreign interference investigation to include the US administration. Our politics must be free from outside influence, wherever it comes from.
The Government must expand its foreign interference investigation to include the US administration. Our politics must be free from outside influence, wherever it comes from.
December 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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There is much to applaud in Labour's new inquiry into foreign interference in British politics
But it needs to go much further if it's to tackle how foreign influence really works - and properly protect British democracy
New by me on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-fo...
But it needs to go much further if it's to tackle how foreign influence really works - and properly protect British democracy
New by me on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-fo...
Labour’s foreign interference inquiry needs to go *much* further
Plus: Mark Galeotti on Russia’s foreign political influence, the war in Ukraine and how crime organises the world
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
There is much to applaud in Labour's new inquiry into foreign interference in British politics
But it needs to go much further if it's to tackle how foreign influence really works - and properly protect British democracy
New by me on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-fo...
But it needs to go much further if it's to tackle how foreign influence really works - and properly protect British democracy
New by me on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-fo...
Excellent article. Well worth a read.
Key point is this: " Instead of authoritarian regimes crumbling because their captive subjects craved freedom, it will be demoralised citizens of failing liberal societies turning to strong leaders for order."
Key point is this: " Instead of authoritarian regimes crumbling because their captive subjects craved freedom, it will be demoralised citizens of failing liberal societies turning to strong leaders for order."
December 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Excellent article. Well worth a read.
Key point is this: " Instead of authoritarian regimes crumbling because their captive subjects craved freedom, it will be demoralised citizens of failing liberal societies turning to strong leaders for order."
Key point is this: " Instead of authoritarian regimes crumbling because their captive subjects craved freedom, it will be demoralised citizens of failing liberal societies turning to strong leaders for order."
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This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that?
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
December 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that?
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
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Nigel Farage said that the 'Raise the Colours' campaign was a "grassroots movement driven by ordinary people”.
Kemi Badenoch said they should be "welcomed" as a symbol of "unity"
Now the campaign has pivoted to racially abusing migrants and intimidating charity workers on the beaches of France
Kemi Badenoch said they should be "welcomed" as a symbol of "unity"
Now the campaign has pivoted to racially abusing migrants and intimidating charity workers on the beaches of France
Nigel Farage-Backed 'Raise the Colours' Campaign Pivots to Racially Abusing Migrants and Harassing Aid Workers on French Beaches
Far-right activists were seen stabbing dinghies and releasing dogs to intimidate migrants and aid workers
bylinetimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Nigel Farage said that the 'Raise the Colours' campaign was a "grassroots movement driven by ordinary people”.
Kemi Badenoch said they should be "welcomed" as a symbol of "unity"
Now the campaign has pivoted to racially abusing migrants and intimidating charity workers on the beaches of France
Kemi Badenoch said they should be "welcomed" as a symbol of "unity"
Now the campaign has pivoted to racially abusing migrants and intimidating charity workers on the beaches of France
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Physician & suffragist Elizabeth Anderson died #OTD in 1917.
She was the:
* First woman to qualify in the #UK as a physician & surgeon & first MD in France
* Co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women
* First dean of a British medical school
* First female mayor in the UK
#WomenInSTEM
She was the:
* First woman to qualify in the #UK as a physician & surgeon & first MD in France
* Co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women
* First dean of a British medical school
* First female mayor in the UK
#WomenInSTEM
December 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Physician & suffragist Elizabeth Anderson died #OTD in 1917.
She was the:
* First woman to qualify in the #UK as a physician & surgeon & first MD in France
* Co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women
* First dean of a British medical school
* First female mayor in the UK
#WomenInSTEM
She was the:
* First woman to qualify in the #UK as a physician & surgeon & first MD in France
* Co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women
* First dean of a British medical school
* First female mayor in the UK
#WomenInSTEM
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British “thought leader” 😂 this should lose the deer worrier 50% of the potential vote for a start. How do women feel about leaving Kruger the Reform nutter in charge of their bodies ?
December 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
British “thought leader” 😂 this should lose the deer worrier 50% of the potential vote for a start. How do women feel about leaving Kruger the Reform nutter in charge of their bodies ?
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YouGov snap poll found rejoining Erasmus UK-EU study exchange scheme is 65-12
Labour 81-4 (+77)
LibDem 85-4 (+81)
Cons 57-21 (+36)
Reform 40-33 (+7)
By 2026, specific "closer cooperation" proposals generate a positive "wedge" effect for Labour: unite centre-left, split elites from voters on right
Labour 81-4 (+77)
LibDem 85-4 (+81)
Cons 57-21 (+36)
Reform 40-33 (+7)
By 2026, specific "closer cooperation" proposals generate a positive "wedge" effect for Labour: unite centre-left, split elites from voters on right
December 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
YouGov snap poll found rejoining Erasmus UK-EU study exchange scheme is 65-12
Labour 81-4 (+77)
LibDem 85-4 (+81)
Cons 57-21 (+36)
Reform 40-33 (+7)
By 2026, specific "closer cooperation" proposals generate a positive "wedge" effect for Labour: unite centre-left, split elites from voters on right
Labour 81-4 (+77)
LibDem 85-4 (+81)
Cons 57-21 (+36)
Reform 40-33 (+7)
By 2026, specific "closer cooperation" proposals generate a positive "wedge" effect for Labour: unite centre-left, split elites from voters on right
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"If Starmer rules out more meaningful steps towards a close relationship with the EU, he allows rivals to occupy the space where the overwhelming majority of Labour MPs, members and voters are to be found."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A warning for Keir Starmer: Brexit is falling apart, but if you are not bold on Europe, your Labour rivals will be | Tom Baldwin
Leave support is falling. That’s an opportunity the PM should seize before pro-Europe challengers for the Labour leadership do, says Tom Baldwin, author of Keir Starmer, The Biography
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"If Starmer rules out more meaningful steps towards a close relationship with the EU, he allows rivals to occupy the space where the overwhelming majority of Labour MPs, members and voters are to be found."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This is just hideous. We're speaking to specialist public and terrorism lawyers in about half an hour to see if there's anything we can do. www.thenational.scot/news/2570443...
MP vows not to leave prison protest as pro-Palestine hunger striker 'may die'
AN MP has joined a prison-gate protest, declaring she will not leave until a hunger striker alleged to be near death receives an ambulance
www.thenational.scot
December 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This is just hideous. We're speaking to specialist public and terrorism lawyers in about half an hour to see if there's anything we can do. www.thenational.scot/news/2570443...