Tanya Pia Starrett
@tanyapiastarrett.bsky.social
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Archaeologist/historian/solicitor/writer/National Ambassador@ScotlandEurope https://t.co/SIW82rKyYS
https://bylines.scot/lifestyle/history/but-where-are-you-from-really/
WW2 UK Civilian Internment: Nonno, Govt policy & MSM hysteria.
Archaeologist/historian/solicitor/writer/National Ambassador@ScotlandEurope https://t.co/SIW82rKyYS
https://bylines.scot/lifestyle/history/but-where-are-you-from-really/
WW2 UK Civilian Internment: Nonno, Govt policy & MSM hysteria.
Pinned
But where are you from really? - Bylines Scotland
The real-life experiences of the internment of “Enemy Alien” civilians in Britain during the Second World War.
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UK WW2 Civilian Internment: Italians, including my Italian grandfather, German Jews & Others.
Many Internees were NOT Fascist, Many British Upper Class WERE, NOT interned.
'NAZIS of the Soul, NOT Nationality' (to paraphrase Lafitte).
UK WW2 Civilian Internment: Italians, including my Italian grandfather, German Jews & Others.
Many Internees were NOT Fascist, Many British Upper Class WERE, NOT interned.
'NAZIS of the Soul, NOT Nationality' (to paraphrase Lafitte).
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News | Law change enabling restitution on moral grounds comes into force this month
But national museums to be excluded from new rules that simplify ‘ex-gratia’ payments
But national museums to be excluded from new rules that simplify ‘ex-gratia’ payments
Law change enabling restitution on moral grounds comes into force this month - Museums Association
But national museums to be excluded from new rules that simplify ‘ex-gratia’ payments
www.museumsassociation.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
News | Law change enabling restitution on moral grounds comes into force this month
But national museums to be excluded from new rules that simplify ‘ex-gratia’ payments
But national museums to be excluded from new rules that simplify ‘ex-gratia’ payments
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News | Icom and INTERPOL launch initiative to combat cultural theft and trafficking
Museum community agrees to strengthen global action againt heritage crime at triennial Icom conference
ICOM UK
Museum community agrees to strengthen global action againt heritage crime at triennial Icom conference
ICOM UK
Icom and Interpol launch initiative to combat cultural theft and trafficking - Museums Association
Museum community agrees to strengthen global action against cultural heritage crime
www.museumsassociation.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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its fantastic to see such a strong Italian team,to win without Sinner and Musetti who are superb anyway.
including Italian women's tennis players Errani and Paolini, Brilliant doubles champions.
'The bench is indeed deep'
Good for Italian tennis,
Good for the sport-Bravissimi tutti! 👏👏💪🥳🥳
including Italian women's tennis players Errani and Paolini, Brilliant doubles champions.
'The bench is indeed deep'
Good for Italian tennis,
Good for the sport-Bravissimi tutti! 👏👏💪🥳🥳
L’Italia ha vinto di nuovo la Coppa Davis, stavolta senza Jannik Sinner
L’Italia ha vinto di nuovo la Coppa Davis, stavolta senza Jannik Sinner
È la terza vittoria consecutiva, non succedeva da oltre 50 anni
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November 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
its fantastic to see such a strong Italian team,to win without Sinner and Musetti who are superb anyway.
including Italian women's tennis players Errani and Paolini, Brilliant doubles champions.
'The bench is indeed deep'
Good for Italian tennis,
Good for the sport-Bravissimi tutti! 👏👏💪🥳🥳
including Italian women's tennis players Errani and Paolini, Brilliant doubles champions.
'The bench is indeed deep'
Good for Italian tennis,
Good for the sport-Bravissimi tutti! 👏👏💪🥳🥳
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Team Italy’s reaction after winning the Davis Cup for the 3rd straight year.
Flavio Cobolli drops his racquet.
The crowd in Bologna goes wild.
He’s joined by his compatriots.
This whole team showed so much heart all week.
World Champs… again 🇮🇹🥹
Flavio Cobolli drops his racquet.
The crowd in Bologna goes wild.
He’s joined by his compatriots.
This whole team showed so much heart all week.
World Champs… again 🇮🇹🥹
November 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Team Italy’s reaction after winning the Davis Cup for the 3rd straight year.
Flavio Cobolli drops his racquet.
The crowd in Bologna goes wild.
He’s joined by his compatriots.
This whole team showed so much heart all week.
World Champs… again 🇮🇹🥹
Flavio Cobolli drops his racquet.
The crowd in Bologna goes wild.
He’s joined by his compatriots.
This whole team showed so much heart all week.
World Champs… again 🇮🇹🥹
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L’Italia ha vinto di nuovo la Coppa Davis, stavolta senza Jannik Sinner
L’Italia ha vinto di nuovo la Coppa Davis, stavolta senza Jannik Sinner
È la terza vittoria consecutiva, non succedeva da oltre 50 anni
ilpost.link
November 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
L’Italia ha vinto di nuovo la Coppa Davis, stavolta senza Jannik Sinner
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Flavio Cobolli on beating Munar to win the Davis Cup for the 3rd consecutive year with Team Italy:
“We cannot lose for our country. Sometimes you learn, but you never lose. If you give all you have in your heart… I don’t know what I did today. The only thing I know is that I’m World Champion.” 🥹
“We cannot lose for our country. Sometimes you learn, but you never lose. If you give all you have in your heart… I don’t know what I did today. The only thing I know is that I’m World Champion.” 🥹
November 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Flavio Cobolli on beating Munar to win the Davis Cup for the 3rd consecutive year with Team Italy:
“We cannot lose for our country. Sometimes you learn, but you never lose. If you give all you have in your heart… I don’t know what I did today. The only thing I know is that I’m World Champion.” 🥹
“We cannot lose for our country. Sometimes you learn, but you never lose. If you give all you have in your heart… I don’t know what I did today. The only thing I know is that I’m World Champion.” 🥹
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Flavio Cobolli wins 1-6, 7⁷-6⁵, 7-5 against Jaume Munar
Just like in 2023 and 2024, the tennis season ends with Team Italy hoisting the Davis Cup trophy. This one even more impressive considering Sinner skipped and this one also comes at home in Bologna.
📸 Luca Bruno/AP Photo
🇮🇹 2-0 🇪🇸
Just like in 2023 and 2024, the tennis season ends with Team Italy hoisting the Davis Cup trophy. This one even more impressive considering Sinner skipped and this one also comes at home in Bologna.
📸 Luca Bruno/AP Photo
🇮🇹 2-0 🇪🇸
November 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Flavio Cobolli wins 1-6, 7⁷-6⁵, 7-5 against Jaume Munar
Just like in 2023 and 2024, the tennis season ends with Team Italy hoisting the Davis Cup trophy. This one even more impressive considering Sinner skipped and this one also comes at home in Bologna.
📸 Luca Bruno/AP Photo
🇮🇹 2-0 🇪🇸
Just like in 2023 and 2024, the tennis season ends with Team Italy hoisting the Davis Cup trophy. This one even more impressive considering Sinner skipped and this one also comes at home in Bologna.
📸 Luca Bruno/AP Photo
🇮🇹 2-0 🇪🇸
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Florence to ban rental electric scooters, for safety and decorum reasons, from next April.
Florence votes to ban rental electric scooters in 2026
Move comes amid safety concerns and coincides with new focus on bike sharing. Florence city council has voted to end its electric scooter rental service, primarily over safety concerns, with the measu...
www.wantedinrome.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Florence to ban rental electric scooters, for safety and decorum reasons, from next April.
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Granollers/Martinez win 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 against Krawietz/Putz
Alcaraz and Sinner may not be here, but we still get a Spain vs Italy Final in Bologna. Just like in the QF vs Czechia, it's Granollers/Martinez to close it out in the deciding doubles.
🇪🇸 2-1 🇩🇪
Alcaraz and Sinner may not be here, but we still get a Spain vs Italy Final in Bologna. Just like in the QF vs Czechia, it's Granollers/Martinez to close it out in the deciding doubles.
🇪🇸 2-1 🇩🇪
November 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Granollers/Martinez win 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 against Krawietz/Putz
Alcaraz and Sinner may not be here, but we still get a Spain vs Italy Final in Bologna. Just like in the QF vs Czechia, it's Granollers/Martinez to close it out in the deciding doubles.
🇪🇸 2-1 🇩🇪
Alcaraz and Sinner may not be here, but we still get a Spain vs Italy Final in Bologna. Just like in the QF vs Czechia, it's Granollers/Martinez to close it out in the deciding doubles.
🇪🇸 2-1 🇩🇪
Italy face Northern Ireland in playoffs for 2026 World Cup share.google/7G3TUAiVbdsz...
Italy face Northern Ireland in playoffs for 2026 World Cup
Italy to face Northern Ireland after missing out on automatic qualification for World Cup. Four-time World Cup winners Italy will face Northern Ireland in the semi-finals of the European playoffs for ...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Italy face Northern Ireland in playoffs for 2026 World Cup share.google/7G3TUAiVbdsz...
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Flavio Cobolli wins 6-3, 6⁵-7⁷, 7¹⁷-6¹⁵ against Zizou Bergs
One of the most tense tiebreakers you will ever see, as Team Italy moves into their 3rd consecutive Davis Cup Final
🇮🇹 2-0 🇧🇪
📸 Zuma/Psnewz
One of the most tense tiebreakers you will ever see, as Team Italy moves into their 3rd consecutive Davis Cup Final
🇮🇹 2-0 🇧🇪
📸 Zuma/Psnewz
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Flavio Cobolli wins 6-3, 6⁵-7⁷, 7¹⁷-6¹⁵ against Zizou Bergs
One of the most tense tiebreakers you will ever see, as Team Italy moves into their 3rd consecutive Davis Cup Final
🇮🇹 2-0 🇧🇪
📸 Zuma/Psnewz
One of the most tense tiebreakers you will ever see, as Team Italy moves into their 3rd consecutive Davis Cup Final
🇮🇹 2-0 🇧🇪
📸 Zuma/Psnewz
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Apparently, according to Boris Johnson, covid bereaved are ‘wrangling on’ about deaths.
I have no words. Just utter contempt.
@cbffjuk.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
I have no words. Just utter contempt.
@cbffjuk.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Boris Johnson ‘beyond contempt’ for attack on Covid inquiry’s findings
Families of the Covid bereaved have reacted to horror to the lack of contrition in the former prime minister’s weekly column
www.independent.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Apparently, according to Boris Johnson, covid bereaved are ‘wrangling on’ about deaths.
I have no words. Just utter contempt.
@cbffjuk.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
I have no words. Just utter contempt.
@cbffjuk.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Key points: Met police say investigation into other politicians is ongoing. Gill sought to recruit multiple MEPs including 4 British ones.
The judge gave strongest possible quotes about the gravity of the crime and the damage done to public trust.
The judge gave strongest possible quotes about the gravity of the crime and the damage done to public trust.
November 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Key points: Met police say investigation into other politicians is ongoing. Gill sought to recruit multiple MEPs including 4 British ones.
The judge gave strongest possible quotes about the gravity of the crime and the damage done to public trust.
The judge gave strongest possible quotes about the gravity of the crime and the damage done to public trust.
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BREAKING: As Reform UK's former Welsh leader and Nigel Farage associate is sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for taking bribes to spread pro-Russian propaganda, @peterjukes.bsky.social reports on why it opens the door to a broader investigation of Russian interference in our politics
Nathan Gill, Voloshyn and the Kremlin’s European Network
The sentencing of Reform UK's former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison should open the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network that has infiltrated European politi...
bylinetimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
BREAKING: As Reform UK's former Welsh leader and Nigel Farage associate is sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for taking bribes to spread pro-Russian propaganda, @peterjukes.bsky.social reports on why it opens the door to a broader investigation of Russian interference in our politics
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These comments by @danielsohege.bsky.social are unfortunately pitch-perfect. The idea that the UK is the Chocolate Factory and that there aren't other countries out there in dire need of nurses, doctors, teachers, carers, and so forth is delusional - and it's going to be too late when people realise
All those people, including current government, who falsely claim migrants are to blame for failings with the NHS, along with infrastructure in general, are in for one hell of a shock with how much worse things will get with Labour's anti-immigration policies.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures last year that imperils NHS
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
These comments by @danielsohege.bsky.social are unfortunately pitch-perfect. The idea that the UK is the Chocolate Factory and that there aren't other countries out there in dire need of nurses, doctors, teachers, carers, and so forth is delusional - and it's going to be too late when people realise
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Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two
The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.
theconversation.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
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They missed opportunities to save lives….
But, didn’t miss opportunities for political friends to make £billions from VIP Lane PPE and Covid Testing deals..
Viplanebook.com
@bylinetimes.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social
But, didn’t miss opportunities for political friends to make £billions from VIP Lane PPE and Covid Testing deals..
Viplanebook.com
@bylinetimes.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Day by day, how Johnson and Hancock missed opportunities to grip Covid crisis trib.al/OK0T0YX
Day by day, how Johnson and Hancock missed opportunities to grip Covid crisis
Baroness Heather Hallett’s report on the government response to Covid accused Johnson of being too “optimistic” in his outlook in the early months of 2020
inews.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
They missed opportunities to save lives….
But, didn’t miss opportunities for political friends to make £billions from VIP Lane PPE and Covid Testing deals..
Viplanebook.com
@bylinetimes.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social
But, didn’t miss opportunities for political friends to make £billions from VIP Lane PPE and Covid Testing deals..
Viplanebook.com
@bylinetimes.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Truly sublime, aren't they?
Have visited Padova twice this year, (so much to see!) Including a tour of its historic uni.
Have visited Padova twice this year, (so much to see!) Including a tour of its historic uni.
Great to be in Padua @unipd.bsky.social for a lecture in the MA European & Global Studies to discuss the global governance of citizenship and its challenges. Thanks Paolo Graziano for the invite!
And what a treat to see Giotto’s spectacular frescoes afterwards.
www.spgi.unipd.it/seminar-chal...
And what a treat to see Giotto’s spectacular frescoes afterwards.
www.spgi.unipd.it/seminar-chal...
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Truly sublime, aren't they?
Have visited Padova twice this year, (so much to see!) Including a tour of its historic uni.
Have visited Padova twice this year, (so much to see!) Including a tour of its historic uni.
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"Compared with other European countries, the UK received the fifth largest number of asylum seekers in the year ending March 2025, and the seventeenth largest intake when measured per head of population" - Home Office data
www.gov.uk/government/s...
www.gov.uk/government/s...
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"Compared with other European countries, the UK received the fifth largest number of asylum seekers in the year ending March 2025, and the seventeenth largest intake when measured per head of population" - Home Office data
www.gov.uk/government/s...
www.gov.uk/government/s...
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If you missed the goals they are all here… Scotland is going to the World Cup. One exciting goal after another…
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
If you missed the goals they are all here… Scotland is going to the World Cup. One exciting goal after another…
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Switzerland and Cyprus had signed a memorandum of understanding in 2013 for the repatriation of stolen artifacts and holy relics. Swiss authorities seized the icon, and it was returned to Cyprus in 2022. It was eventually reinstalled in the church.
November 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Switzerland and Cyprus had signed a memorandum of understanding in 2013 for the repatriation of stolen artifacts and holy relics. Swiss authorities seized the icon, and it was returned to Cyprus in 2022. It was eventually reinstalled in the church.
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Thanks to this case and other repatriations, Cyprus's Department of Antiquities now has a dedicated team to search for missing artifacts.
Learn more: mola.omeka.net/items/show/2...
Learn more: mola.omeka.net/items/show/2...
The Savior on the Throne · Museum of Looted Antiquities
The Museum of Looted Antiquities collects, displays and studies ancient art and artifacts that have been repatriated to their countries of origin since 1950.
mola.omeka.net
November 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Thanks to this case and other repatriations, Cyprus's Department of Antiquities now has a dedicated team to search for missing artifacts.
Learn more: mola.omeka.net/items/show/2...
Learn more: mola.omeka.net/items/show/2...