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Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.
April 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Our new film ON FALLING will be in cinemas around the country from 7th March.
The film is about precarity, loneliness and exploitation. Please share and look out for more info coming soon!
The film is about precarity, loneliness and exploitation. Please share and look out for more info coming soon!
Exclusive first look at the poster for ON FALLING, winner of Best Director at San Sebastian and Sutherland Award at BFI London Film Festival. In UK and Irish cinemas 7 March.
Read more and find screenings at conic.film/onfalling
Poster design by Midnight Marauder
Read more and find screenings at conic.film/onfalling
Poster design by Midnight Marauder
February 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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The Labour Party went into the 2024 election promising to reform the discredited NHS contract fuelling the current crisis
According to @thebda.bsky.social there has been no material progress to date & its deeply concerned the Treasury is now standing in the way of progress
youtu.be/Hu0Okad5O1w?...
According to @thebda.bsky.social there has been no material progress to date & its deeply concerned the Treasury is now standing in the way of progress
youtu.be/Hu0Okad5O1w?...
THE SHOCKING state of NHS dentistry in England has today - again - been laid bare
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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February 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Labour Party went into the 2024 election promising to reform the discredited NHS contract fuelling the current crisis
According to @thebda.bsky.social there has been no material progress to date & its deeply concerned the Treasury is now standing in the way of progress
youtu.be/Hu0Okad5O1w?...
According to @thebda.bsky.social there has been no material progress to date & its deeply concerned the Treasury is now standing in the way of progress
youtu.be/Hu0Okad5O1w?...
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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
February 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Scottish artist Elizabeth Blackadder, Black Cat, Abyssinian Cat and Tulips, 1988 #womensart
February 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Scottish artist Elizabeth Blackadder, Black Cat, Abyssinian Cat and Tulips, 1988 #womensart
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Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784). Born in West Africa, she was kidnapped and sold into U.S. enslavement at the age of seven, She later became the first published African-American female poet #WomensArt
February 13, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784). Born in West Africa, she was kidnapped and sold into U.S. enslavement at the age of seven, She later became the first published African-American female poet #WomensArt
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#Imbolc is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of spring, held on 1 February. A time of celebration and ritual, often honouring Brighid, the goddess of the hearth
Mary Delany, Galanthus Nivalis, Snowdrop, 1777 #WomensArt
Mary Delany, Galanthus Nivalis, Snowdrop, 1777 #WomensArt
February 1, 2025 at 6:22 AM
#Imbolc is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of spring, held on 1 February. A time of celebration and ritual, often honouring Brighid, the goddess of the hearth
Mary Delany, Galanthus Nivalis, Snowdrop, 1777 #WomensArt
Mary Delany, Galanthus Nivalis, Snowdrop, 1777 #WomensArt
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Artist Terese Agnew’s 'Portrait of a Textile Worker', 2005, constructed from 30,000 clothing labels stitched together over 2 years, raising awareness about where much of the West's clothing comes from, who makes it, and under what conditions #womensart
February 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Artist Terese Agnew’s 'Portrait of a Textile Worker', 2005, constructed from 30,000 clothing labels stitched together over 2 years, raising awareness about where much of the West's clothing comes from, who makes it, and under what conditions #womensart
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January 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Joni Mitchell, Van Gogh inspired self-portrait, used as cover art for her Van Gogh inspired album 'Turbulent Indigo' 1994 #womensart
January 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Joni Mitchell, Van Gogh inspired self-portrait, used as cover art for her Van Gogh inspired album 'Turbulent Indigo' 1994 #womensart
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Ulla Stina Wikander, Swedish designer who uses household appliances and cooking tools as the base to her cross-stitched sculptures #womensart
January 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Ulla Stina Wikander, Swedish designer who uses household appliances and cooking tools as the base to her cross-stitched sculptures #womensart
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Una, Lady Troubridge (1924) by US born painter Romaine Brooks #womensart
January 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Una, Lady Troubridge (1924) by US born painter Romaine Brooks #womensart
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Liverpool's Frank Hornby submitted his first application for a patent for Meccano #OTD in 1901. Known at first as 'Mechanics Made Easy', the invention became a worldwide success.
January 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Liverpool's Frank Hornby submitted his first application for a patent for Meccano #OTD in 1901. Known at first as 'Mechanics Made Easy', the invention became a worldwide success.
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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
January 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
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"For all the easy, cheap nonsense being peddled - changes 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 made."
Andrew Norfolk confirms Keir Starmer "completely changed the rules" as DPP to help prosecute grooming gangs - directly countering Musk's claim of a coverup.
@maitlis.bsky.social
@lewisgoodall.com
Andrew Norfolk confirms Keir Starmer "completely changed the rules" as DPP to help prosecute grooming gangs - directly countering Musk's claim of a coverup.
@maitlis.bsky.social
@lewisgoodall.com
January 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"For all the easy, cheap nonsense being peddled - changes 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 made."
Andrew Norfolk confirms Keir Starmer "completely changed the rules" as DPP to help prosecute grooming gangs - directly countering Musk's claim of a coverup.
@maitlis.bsky.social
@lewisgoodall.com
Andrew Norfolk confirms Keir Starmer "completely changed the rules" as DPP to help prosecute grooming gangs - directly countering Musk's claim of a coverup.
@maitlis.bsky.social
@lewisgoodall.com
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It turns out that Farage was right; foreigners were coming for his job.
January 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Word of the day is one I mention often. To have the ‘mubble-fubbles’, in the 16th century, was to experience a fit of despondency or low spirits - another name for the Sunday blues.
January 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Word of the day is one I mention often. To have the ‘mubble-fubbles’, in the 16th century, was to experience a fit of despondency or low spirits - another name for the Sunday blues.
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André Edouard Marty
Illustration for “House And Garden” magazine
1925
Illustration for “House And Garden” magazine
1925
January 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
André Edouard Marty
Illustration for “House And Garden” magazine
1925
Illustration for “House And Garden” magazine
1925
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“The only effective measure is to ban all political donations, and the giving and receiving of such donations a criminal offence. Such a ban would force political parties to compete and develop publicly acceptable policies”
@premnsikka.bsky.social
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...
@premnsikka.bsky.social
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...
How our democracy has been hijacked by corporations and wealthy elites
The only effective remedy is to ban all private donations, or bribes, to political parties.
leftfootforward.org
January 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“The only effective measure is to ban all political donations, and the giving and receiving of such donations a criminal offence. Such a ban would force political parties to compete and develop publicly acceptable policies”
@premnsikka.bsky.social
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...
@premnsikka.bsky.social
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...
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Ruby Silvious, visual artist and graphic designer, whose work includes experimenting on recycled and found materials, including tea-bags #womensart
January 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Ruby Silvious, visual artist and graphic designer, whose work includes experimenting on recycled and found materials, including tea-bags #womensart
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As we start the New Year its perhaps a good time to remind ourselves (and everyone else) of the importance & benefits of membership of the ECHR
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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January 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
As we start the New Year its perhaps a good time to remind ourselves (and everyone else) of the importance & benefits of membership of the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY?...
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY?...
Incredible skill.
Jessica So Ren Tang, contemporary textile artist who creates embroidery which explores ideas of Asian-American identity #womensart
January 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Incredible skill.
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Huge scandal for Starmer: if it turns out Feathers McGraw was part of the early prison release scheme then he's finished. #WallaceAndGromit
December 25, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Huge scandal for Starmer: if it turns out Feathers McGraw was part of the early prison release scheme then he's finished. #WallaceAndGromit