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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

The advice received by Kemi Badenoch shows clearly that leaving the ECHR will come at great cost. It will end at minimum all security co-operation with the EU and probably the TCA itself with all the economic implications that come from this.
@europeanmovement.co.uk
@dominicgrieve

Leaving ECHR breaches Good Friday Agreement, says Grieve

Leaving the Convention "plainly in breach of the Good Friday agreement" says former Attorney General.

www.europeanmovement.co.uk

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 9h

The numbers are clear. Most Britons now believe leaving Europe was a mistake. The next generation knows our future lies in cooperation, not isolation.

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 6h

Just now on ITV quiz show The Chase.

Host: “What animal features in Van Dyck’s equestrian portrait of Charles I?”

Contestant: “A duck.”

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 7h

Canada vs. America

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René Smits @rs-lawsociety.bsky.social · 7d

read this - on revenge by Trump and backlash against @opensocietybr.bsky.social
on.ft.com/4pVuUtK Why Trump is going for Soros
by @edwardluce.bsky.social in today’s @financialtimes.com

Why Trump is going for Soros

The philanthropist is as close as the world’s strongmen get to a cross-border demon

on.ft.com

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 1d

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 10h

New opera!

In Dublin Jack, Conor Mitchell & The Belfast Ensemble delve into the seedy underbelly of Victorian London…

🎶 October 9: Purcell Room, Southbank Centre

🎶 November 14: Outburst Queer Arts Festival, Belfast

VWF supported - we wish them a great run! 👏

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 9h

When will these people learn that "Oh no, my plagiarism farm isn't economically viable without theft!" is not a bang-up argument?

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 9h

#wato
Sarah Montague, interviewing Helen Whately re (proposed abolition of) Stamp Duty:
“Is there anything that’s going to replace it? Perhaps a tax that the seller would pay?”

Sigh. Econ101.

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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 21h

Poster for 4th Alsatian Wine Fair in Colmar, Alsace, 1951

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 17h

The Uffizi Madonna, c 1465, tempera on wood, Renaissance masterpiece by Fra Filippo Lippi, Florentine artist, teacher of Botticelli, patronised by Cosimo de’ Medici, died #OTD 1469; the tender intimacy & purity of Madonna & child, with rugged landscape of rocks & sea beyond.
Gallerie degli Uffizi

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 2d

#OpenAccess from the latest issue of @psrm.bsky.social -

Who decides who gets in? Diplomats, bureaucrats, and visa issuance - https://cup.org/4mAJ8gu

- David Lindsey

PSRM abstract discussing a study on the impact of resident diplomacy on visa issuance by UK diplomatic posts, emphasizing the change in adjudication processes and its effects on international relations.

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 2d

Where not #OpenAccess the latest issue of the Journal of Policy History is free to read until the end of October 2025 -

Volume 37 - Issue 4 - https://cup.org/4mxcRaj

#jph

Promotional banner for JPH (Journal of Policy History ) featuring the text "Access the latest issue" in elegant typography on a cream background.

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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 2d

Edward Hopper (American 1882-1967) Le soir bleu, 1914. Oil on canvas, 91.8 × 182.7 cm. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 2d

”…that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
Ulysses 1833, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, died #OTD 1892.
Trinity College Cambridge Chapel
@trincolllibcam.bsky.social

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 2d

“Une maison est une machine à habiter.”
Le Corbusier, Swiss-French pioneer of modern architecture, born #OTD 1887.
Villa Savoye à Poissy 1931

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 5d

Self-Portrait, n.d., etched after #ÉlisabethSophieChéron (French, 1648-1711), who was born #otd, Oct 3. Held at the NYPL, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1a249f... #artherstory #womenartists #ElisabethCheron

An etching portraying in half length a young woman with curly dark hair, seated, her bent right elbow resting on a stone pedestal. Her hands hold, in her lap, either end of a scroll of paper. Underneath the image is script with the name of the sitter, Elisabeth Sophie Cheron, Mme le Hay. In smaller script is a second line of text in French: "Poete, Paintre et Musicienne."

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 5d

"Be careful not to look sad like gloomy hypocrites, but show yourselves as happy in the Lord; be cheerful and gracious." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 4d

Sublime dreams: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist, architect & archaeologist, whose views of Rome & imaginary prisons influenced Neoclassicism & Romanticism; born #OTD 1720.
Colosseum, Vedute di Roma, etching 1757 | Plate III Carceri d’Invenzione,etching 1761
Princeton University Art Museum

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🎬 ScreenMedia 🎞 @screenmedia.bsky.social · 5d

John Huston’s directorial debut in the 🇺🇸American film noir “THE MALTESE FALCON” starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George and Peter Lorre premiered #OnThisDay in 1941 at The Strand Theatre, New York City

🎬 Warner Bros.
🎞 #FilmNoir

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 4d

The Gleaners, 1857, realist masterpiece by Jean-François Millet, French artist, a founder of Barbizon school, born #OTD 1814.
Musée d’Orsay

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans.

U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties.

Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed.

This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda.

It was always about cruelty.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 5d

In 1930, RVW composed Job: A Masque for Dancing, a one-act ballet score inspired by William Blake's illustrations of the biblical Book of Job.
The score is a significant work featuring his characteristic pastoral melodies alongside passages anticipating his later style.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 5d

The lost domain: Alain Fournier, French writer of Le Grand Meaulnes, poignant tale of adolescent love in rural pre-war France; born #OTD 1886.

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