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Librarian, & occasional knowledge counsellor. All sorts. Retweets are not an endorsement.
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Your next prime minister
"Nigel Farage has blamed his failure to declare £380,000 of income from TV and speeches on “severe growing pains” since becoming an MP and the fact that “I don’t do computers”." [Times]
January 22, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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No MP should be earning £380,000 on top of their parliamentary salary.

Farage manages it because he's turned "politainment" into a viable career. Like his US counterparts he's discovered that being a disruptor can make you very wealthy indeed.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage apologises for 17 breaches of MPs’ code of conduct
Reform UK leader, who failed to declare £380,000 on time, says he is computer-illiterate ‘oddball’
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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Change in opening hours : to LJC term time

From Monday 12 January we will be open for longer again, to support the teaching and learing at the London Jesuit Centre: Mondays-Thursdays: 9:30am to 6:30pm Fridays: 9:30am to 6pm Saturdays: 9:30am to 2pm Please always check our web page for changes to…
Change in opening hours : to LJC term time
From Monday 12 January we will be open for longer again, to support the teaching and learing at the London Jesuit Centre: Mondays-Thursdays: 9:30am to 6:30pm Fridays: 9:30am to 6pm Saturdays: 9:30am to 2pm Please always check our web page for changes to the opening hours, especially if you are travelling from further away from London. The second LJC term of 2025-26 ends on 27 March 2026.
heythroplibrary.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Prof Stevenson on "1758 - The Secret History of a Papal Election" @campionhall.bsky.social : Thursday 19 February 2026: 17:15-18:45 (GMT), at CH, Oxford _and_ online! More info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/campion-le... [talk covers a manuscript deposited by the @heythroplib.bsky.social at Campion Hall!]
Campion Lecture HT 2026: 1758 - The Secret History of a Papal Election
An exploration of intrigue and diplomacy behind a pivotal eighteenth-century papal conclave. Delivered by Professor Jane Stevenson.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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Amazing collections, lovely people. Come and spend a year doing research @theul.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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Incredulous! 👇 Let the first two lines sink in!
Who agrees? ✋
December 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Excellent piece on the continuing value of libraries from Martha Gill in @theobserveruk.bsky.social - pleased to be quoted in it. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Far from being past their shelf life, libraries are essen...
These vital institutions can launch businesses and reduce the need for social care
observer.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Verily, the man who puts the c*nt in country.
It’s the Boxing Day Hunt, Nigel Farage thinks packs of hounds should chase a fox and tear it to shreds.
December 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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December 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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G'night 🌟
December 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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We’re excited to share our new main catalogue, making it easier for you to find and request the majority of our published collection. We’ve also launched an interim version of our Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Find out how to start searching and requesting on our website bit.ly/BLNewCatalogues
December 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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If you haven’t noticed this up to this point, now you won’t be able to avoid identifying it everywhere
And have you noticed a big uptick in “benefits” stories at the moment?

Probably completely unrelated(🤔) to the fact we’ve had the longest run with no small boat crossings for 2 years, and the latest immigration stats are down at pre-pandemic levels…

They’ve gotta find a scapegoat somewhere🙄

9/9
December 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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You can explore the data in this great report. My point is not to set one subject against another but that the stereotypes about humanities employability need a bit of probing, and shouldn’t be the thing that put someone off what they want to study
graduatemarkettrends.cdn.prismic.io/graduatemark...
December 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Our economic woes are caused by Brexit, (Ukraine), Covid, Brexit’s ugly baby - our dismal immigration policy, Truss budget, 14yrs of austerity…
All rightwing policies.
Quite mad that our media acts as if Labour’s budget is the end of days, when they failed to adequately scrutinise any of
that👆shit.
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Seventh 2025 CSP Hunter scholarship awarded

We are delighted to announce that we have just awarded the seventh 2025 recipient for one of the seven The Professor CSP Hunter Scholarships to Dr Stephen Dolan Find out more about the recipients this year, what the eligibility criteria were.
Seventh 2025 CSP Hunter scholarship awarded
We are delighted to announce that we have just awarded the seventh 2025 recipient for one of the seven The Professor CSP Hunter Scholarships to Dr Stephen Dolan Find out more about the recipients this year, what the eligibility criteria were.
heythroplibrary.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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#NewAcquisition @heythroplib.bsky.social : The play of goodness : creation, phenomenology, and culture / Jacob Benjamins. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Books returned @heythroplib.bsky.social after 7 years. If you still got any of our books when the Library was still part of the Heythrop College, please return them to us! To find our postal address, and where we are: heythroplibrary.co.u... #ChristmasComeEarly
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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#NewAcquisition @heythroplib.bsky.social : A heavy yoke : theology, power and abuse in the church / Selina Stone. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

November 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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“Ip’s detailed analysis significantly deepens our understanding of how #Divine simplicity operated at the heart of early #Trinitarian thought, offering a rich ‘doctrinal ecology’ that laid the groundwork for later #Nicene developments.” ~The Heythrop Journal

Book: https://bit.ly/49CMuwB
November 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
binghamton.interviewexchange.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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youtube.com/shorts/H-QkT...

Farage the Grifter - the Movie

Don't forward this anywhere for fear of his embarrassment!
Many MPs describe being overrun with work. Nigel Farage has found time for another 12 jobs.
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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On the one hand, far fewer people are being killed. On the other, some people get to work two minutes later. So it's impossible to say whether it's good or not.
Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on
Protests continue against default lower limit in urban areas that supporters say is working ‘exactly as intended’
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM