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Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 10h

Aberdeen Steakhouse.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 20h

Hey, there, what a handsome fella you are. This guy is wearing a gorgeous cuirass with inlaid silver and niello patterns, and copper inlaid lips. Beautiful swoopy hair, too. Soft features and superb craftsmanship, probably made in Gaul and imported into Britain.

Can you guess who he is? 🏺 1/

📸 me

Copper alloy statuette of an emperor in the guise of Alexander. Silver and copper-plating and deliberately patinated black bronze detail. The figure, which is hollow cast, stands with the weight on the right leg whilst the left foot is raised and may have originally rested on a globe or helmet (now missing). The right hand originally held a spear or sceptre (now missing) and the left arm is also missing. The figure wears imperial dress of decorated boots, a short tunic and a cuirass which is richly adorned with inlaid silver and niello patterns. The face is full and plump and the hair upstanding above the brow; the lips are slightly parted and the eyes, originally inlaid with colours (now missing) gaze upwards.

British Museum

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 20h

While China was building a massive network of "re-education camps" to imprison and torture Uyghur Muslims and wipe out their culture, Britain was welcoming refugees from Hong Kong.

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 20h

“While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors.” Kemi Badenoch www.conservatives.com/news/kemi-ba...

Kemi Badenoch announces Stamp Duty Abolition Policy

In her remarks closing Conference Kemi made one more major announcement

www.conservatives.com

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 20h

Doulton’s headquarters & factory building, #Lambeth #London
Architect - R. Stark Wilkinson - 1878

High #Victorian #Gothic architecture, with decorative details of Doulton’s terracotta.

#Exeter born, Stark Wilkinson designed the Digby Hospital, #Devon in 1886.

#WallsOnWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday

A gothic corner building with turret, many windows & terracotta details.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 18h

How this escaped being a location in one of the Harry Potter movies is a thing of wonderment.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 18h

Not crazy for the new look Mystery Machine in the latest live action Scooby Doo.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 20h

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 18h

And unless I am very much mistaken that is Roy Barraclough on the right.

Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 18h

Is that Harold Wilson on the left?

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 21h

two women wearing shirts that read USA drinking team, they are smoking and holding a bottle

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 18h

Personally I think all arrivals at UK borders — whatever their nationality — should be placed alone in a room which is empty but for a small table with a tea-cosy on it. If covert CCTV does not see them idly try it on their head as a hat they are not allowed in because they do not share our values.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 18h

Personally I think all arrivals at UK borders — whatever their nationality — should be placed alone in a room which is empty but for a small table with a tea-cosy on it. If covert CCTV does not see them idly try it on their head as a hat they are not allowed in because they do not share our values.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 19h

Truck crossing the bridge above is coming for them.

Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 19h

Kemi Badenoch here daring to imagine a Britian [sic] without ripoff English degrees

A chocolate bar from a goodie bag issued at this week’s Conservative conference. The wrapper says, “When Labour negotiates, Britian loses”, and is signed in cursive script with Kemi Badenoch’s name. Both the floating comma and the misspelling of Britain have been widely noted.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20h

Kemi is tobogganing headfirst down hill towards her ‘I am a fighter not a quitter’ moment. Surely today her last chance to save herself disappeared.

Screengrab of Liz Truss yelling ‘I am a fighter not a quitter’ at the House of Commons, a day or two before she quitted.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

Also, he said they can’t watch ten hours of video to catch one bike thief. Erm, they don’t need to. Skip through in, say, one hour jumps till you get to the bit where the bike is gone then rewind a few minutes to where the thief is stealing it.

Have these police officers never handled a TV remote?

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

Dunno about media misrepresenting this: I listened to Ian Drummond-Smith of the British Transport Police on the Today prog this morning and what he said sounded pretty much like a message direct to bike thieves that it is going to be very easy to get away with this crime so knock yourselves out.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

That I don’t know. But conservatism, as in the relentless protection of wealth and privilege, yes.

Crassus in first century BC Rome is utterly familiar to any Tory today.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

Charles I, Walter Raleigh — maybe Mone & Barrowman, just a bit.

But mostly the millennia long project of conservatism is to make sure laws, like taxes, are just for the little people. And the project has been overwhelmingly successful so far.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

They assume this stuff will never apply to them. And they are mostly right.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

Just wait till she moves to Afghanistan and starts oozing with enthusiasm for what she finds *there*.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know what is in her mind but for a long time I have heard other dark blue conservative types getting very enthusiastic about the beheading and flogging criminal justice systems in Gulf countries. ‘No nonsense’. Maybe that’s it?

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

(Uh, she’s disabled some aspects of the post so it doesn’t display above but I think that link leads to it? Anyway, she’s saying state funded faith schools mean children of some fundamentalist minded people get at least a less exclusive education than being home schooled, the likely alternative.)

Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

I reposted Lewis’s post, below, but then I saw Naomi’s comments and that is certainly a side to it I hadn’t thought about.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d

2/2 Annunciation from 1445 by Fra Filippo Lippi. Love how hands emerge from heaven and throw down the dove, with a bunch of little clouds, in this one.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

Old *Arse* Pensioners. 🙂

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