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The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 1d

The former BBC journalist Mishal Husain has questioned whether Shamima Begum would have been treated differently by the media if she were not Muslim ⬇️

Mishal Husain: Media treated Shamima Begum differently as a Muslim

The former BBC journalist criticises broadcasters for interviews with the teenager who fled to Syria to join Isis, conducted hours after she had given birth

www.thetimes.com

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 2d

Of course.
But don't forget the 2000 Palestinian hostages to be released later today, and the 10,000 more Israel will not release, including doctors and journalists, most never charged and many probably in degrading conditions. They hope we will forget now the Israelis are out

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

whatever else, it is fantastic news that the last living hostages have been freed after two years.

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed we haven't forgotten that Pitt introduced income tax as a temporary measure.

Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s Times gives “urged” the entirely new meaning of “a lukewarm mention in the middle of a 66 page report”.

Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 3d

I'm surprised BlueSky doesn't have a block on posts that mention both Robespierre and Marie-Antoinette

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 6d

Has this been thought through?

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 7d

That's 19 files I have to update manually on pastellists.com

Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 13d

I'm no expert on MM iconography (I can't even spell Magdalene properly - blame an Oxford education), but I think top right is an oil lamp suspended from a bracket. At the bottom of this, looking like a chess piece, might be a stylized ointment jar (it should be!)

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 13d

A Mary Magdalen

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 13d

Do we yet know how much HMG will actually receive from the award given the co is now in administration? (No idea if amounts can be recovered higher up.)

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 14d

Just seeing this on the page turns some people* into a blubbering mess.

*Me. It’s me.

The violin solo from the third of Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs, Beim Schlafengehn.

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 17d

My comment on the Telegraph article on the Bayeux tapestry:
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 17d

Did get it but anyway...
"Maths" is a contraction, and takes no full stop; "math." is an abbreviation, and should have one (even if it doesn't always get its due). same number of keystrokes, so no economy.

Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 21d

I think he's progressed beyond teaching the chosen seed how the heavens and earth first rose out of chaos to how to get back there quick...must be those tablets again

Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 23d

Would have been more effective if Davey had given a specific example like that instead of letting Mason get away with it

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 27d

What's he gained for UK in tariffs or defence, and was it worth turning a blind eye to genocide?

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 27d

The political problem Trump presents for Keir Starmer is that keeping the US on side now requires increasingly absurd performances of self-abasement which Starmer's rivals within the Labour Party and the wider UK Left will use to fuel growing anger and frustration with Starmer among Labour's base

Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 27d

When he sees that photo I feel sure Humphy Trumpty will devise some new US order of chivalry so that he too can wear more bling. Expect the badge of the order to be gold

Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 27d

Donald Trump reçu en grande pompe par la famille royale britannique

Le président américain a passé le premier jour de sa visite d’Etat au Royaume-Uni dans le château de Windsor, où étaient déployés les fastes de la monarchie.

www.lemonde.fr

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 28d

Sorry...only £508,000...

Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 28d

The Rosalba pastel of Coulson Fellowes (J.21.0511 ) just sold for £520,000, an auction record for the artist
www.cheffins.co.uk/about/news/v...

Fresh-to-market painting by Rosalba Carriera to go under the hammer - Cheffins News

It will be offered as part of The Fine Sale on 17th September

www.cheffins.co.uk

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Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social · 28d

I am very much hoping not to be out-bagged at the #MarieAntoinette exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Handbag showing a Liotard portrait of an archduchess in pink with the title Marie Antoinette above

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 28d

The Rosalba pastel of Coulson Fellowes (J.21.0511 ) just sold for £520,000, an auction record for the artist
www.cheffins.co.uk/about/news/v...

Fresh-to-market painting by Rosalba Carriera to go under the hammer - Cheffins News

It will be offered as part of The Fine Sale on 17th September

www.cheffins.co.uk

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · Sep 9

So?

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · Sep 9

Sir Keir Starmer has a salary of £172,000. An audit by The Times shows that the bosses of the ten worst-performing NHS trusts earn more than £200,000 a year ⬇️

Revealed: CEOs of 10 worst NHS hospitals paid more than PM

Sir Keir Starmer has a salary of £172,000. An audit by The Times shows that the bosses of the ten worst-performing NHS trusts earn more than £200,000 a year

www.thetimes.com

Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · Sep 9

Men need not apply

PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · Sep 9

There are now five Labour MPs in the running to succeed Angela Rayner as the party's deputy leader:

Paula Barker
Bridget Phillipson
Lucy Powell
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
Emily Thornberry

They must secure the support of 80 Labour MPs by 5pm Thursday to progress in the contest

Bridget Phillipson Announces Run For Labour Deputy Leader

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has announced that she is running in Labour's deputy leadership race after Angela Rayner quit the post.

www.politicshome.com

Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · Sep 3

have arisen, even if Neidle's tax specialist should have caught it. NB I don't know the facts here, and I don't like Rayner and would like to see her go; but there is a possible scenario in which her behaviour here should not have that consequence.
It's the law that needs to be changed

Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'd have expected @ft to spell out just how bizarre the SDLT provision is that seems to have caught her: just being the parent is enough, even if you don't own any beneficial interest and aren't a trustee. It isn't about occupation. Without this you can't appreciate how easily this mistake might...

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George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · Sep 1

Further, the paper doesn’t deny (it can’t) that leaving the ECHR would entitle the EU at once to terminate Trade and Cooperation provisions of great importance to immigration control and fighting crime. The EU could also terminate the TCA as a whole.

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George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · Sep 1

That result is so obviously problematic as to rule it out as a practical suggestion.

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