Norma Adair
@normad.bsky.social
Curious, critical and trying to be kind. Or maybe just trying . . .
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Wow! This is amazing. Please make Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” trend. Here are the lyrics.
January 28, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Wow! This is amazing. Please make Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” trend. Here are the lyrics.
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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt
Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt
Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell
January 28, 2026 at 3:42 AM
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt
Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt
Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell
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They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.
The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.
Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.
Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.
The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.
Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.
Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.
January 24, 2026 at 11:25 PM
They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.
The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.
Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.
Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.
The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.
Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.
Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.
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Highly recommend people read the Canadian Prime Minister’s speech.
Middle powers (like Canada, the U.K., and Australia) must unite upon our values & harmonise our economic/defence power.
To go on pretending the post-Cold War structures benefit us is folly.
paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
Middle powers (like Canada, the U.K., and Australia) must unite upon our values & harmonise our economic/defence power.
To go on pretending the post-Cold War structures benefit us is folly.
paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Highly recommend people read the Canadian Prime Minister’s speech.
Middle powers (like Canada, the U.K., and Australia) must unite upon our values & harmonise our economic/defence power.
To go on pretending the post-Cold War structures benefit us is folly.
paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
Middle powers (like Canada, the U.K., and Australia) must unite upon our values & harmonise our economic/defence power.
To go on pretending the post-Cold War structures benefit us is folly.
paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
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Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
January 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
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Britain is one of the best places in recorded history to be born, live, work and grow old. Lots of room for improvement obviously but combat the pessimism, it’s the forerunner of fascism.
every provocateur who wangs on all the time about Britain being “broken” should be sent to an actual failed state or autocracy for a month as a learning experience, there’s no shortage of them
January 17, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Britain is one of the best places in recorded history to be born, live, work and grow old. Lots of room for improvement obviously but combat the pessimism, it’s the forerunner of fascism.
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A reminder of what a pathetic but dangerous bully Trump is - and why the UK and EU need to stand up to him
Q: The premier of Greenland said today, 'We prefer to stay with Denmark.'
TRUMP: Who said that?
Q: The premier of Greenland
TRUMP: Well, that's their problem. I disagree with him. I don't know who he is. Don't know anything about him. But that's gonna be a big problem for him.
TRUMP: Who said that?
Q: The premier of Greenland
TRUMP: Well, that's their problem. I disagree with him. I don't know who he is. Don't know anything about him. But that's gonna be a big problem for him.
January 14, 2026 at 8:58 AM
A reminder of what a pathetic but dangerous bully Trump is - and why the UK and EU need to stand up to him
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Trump is probably focused on the money he wrongly thinks he'll make from Venezuelan oil. But he's not a details guy and nobody has thought through the details. Essentially, the US has taken over Venezuela by mistake. Stranger things have happened, but not many.
open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
Stranger Things
The 1980s Nostalgia of Trump's Foreign Policy is probably going to end up, like Stranger Things, as a horror show.
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Trump is probably focused on the money he wrongly thinks he'll make from Venezuelan oil. But he's not a details guy and nobody has thought through the details. Essentially, the US has taken over Venezuela by mistake. Stranger things have happened, but not many.
open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
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Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."
December 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."
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Quick stop on the way back to Tongue tonight - the Kyle of Tongue after sunset, with Ben Hope in the background.
#Scotland #DronePhotography
#Scotland #DronePhotography
December 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Quick stop on the way back to Tongue tonight - the Kyle of Tongue after sunset, with Ben Hope in the background.
#Scotland #DronePhotography
#Scotland #DronePhotography
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December 15, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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OK, strap in….
Here is part 2 of the “Tesco/(insert other brand) are cancelling Christmas” claims!
🎄🎅🤶🎄
TL:DR? Christmas is alive and well everywhere you look.
And so too, sadly, is manufactured Christmas rage baiting.
Here is just 7 day’s worth of Daily Mail Christmas Rage bait
🧵
1/31
Here is part 2 of the “Tesco/(insert other brand) are cancelling Christmas” claims!
🎄🎅🤶🎄
TL:DR? Christmas is alive and well everywhere you look.
And so too, sadly, is manufactured Christmas rage baiting.
Here is just 7 day’s worth of Daily Mail Christmas Rage bait
🧵
1/31
December 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
OK, strap in….
Here is part 2 of the “Tesco/(insert other brand) are cancelling Christmas” claims!
🎄🎅🤶🎄
TL:DR? Christmas is alive and well everywhere you look.
And so too, sadly, is manufactured Christmas rage baiting.
Here is just 7 day’s worth of Daily Mail Christmas Rage bait
🧵
1/31
Here is part 2 of the “Tesco/(insert other brand) are cancelling Christmas” claims!
🎄🎅🤶🎄
TL:DR? Christmas is alive and well everywhere you look.
And so too, sadly, is manufactured Christmas rage baiting.
Here is just 7 day’s worth of Daily Mail Christmas Rage bait
🧵
1/31
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Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered landscapes #WomensArt #snow #winter
December 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered landscapes #WomensArt #snow #winter
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Mist over Crummock Water
December 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Mist over Crummock Water
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“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”
— Bertrand Russell
— Bertrand Russell
December 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”
— Bertrand Russell
— Bertrand Russell
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People would do well to listen to @alexdaviesjones.bsky.social on what it means to have a Labour government.
You'll be sorry if we lose them.
www.instagram.com/reel/DREyv44...
You'll be sorry if we lose them.
www.instagram.com/reel/DREyv44...
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
People would do well to listen to @alexdaviesjones.bsky.social on what it means to have a Labour government.
You'll be sorry if we lose them.
www.instagram.com/reel/DREyv44...
You'll be sorry if we lose them.
www.instagram.com/reel/DREyv44...
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Fascinating piece.
November 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Fascinating piece.
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NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
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NEW: Campaign group 'Patriotic Millionaires' have taken a bus to Edinburgh calling for a wealth tax 👀👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
NEW: Campaign group 'Patriotic Millionaires' have taken a bus to Edinburgh calling for a wealth tax 👀👇
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the opposition to Sir Keir is weak, these would be challengers are nothing, nobodies, he will grind them up like the treacherous grime they are and move on, strengthened and more glorious. 💪👍🌹👍🌹
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
the opposition to Sir Keir is weak, these would be challengers are nothing, nobodies, he will grind them up like the treacherous grime they are and move on, strengthened and more glorious. 💪👍🌹👍🌹
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Natasha Newton, contemporary UK artist and illustrator #WomensArt
November 5, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Natasha Newton, contemporary UK artist and illustrator #WomensArt
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This claim that Labour is no different from the last government needs to be challenged every time. Gone are the days of austerity, Brexit division, unfunded mini-budgets, useless illegal Rwanda scheme and NHS cuts. Instead there's a mission to rebuild our country.
November 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This claim that Labour is no different from the last government needs to be challenged every time. Gone are the days of austerity, Brexit division, unfunded mini-budgets, useless illegal Rwanda scheme and NHS cuts. Instead there's a mission to rebuild our country.
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Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.
At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years
At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years
October 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.
At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years
At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years
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Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...