Helen
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POP QUIZ: What is the connection between George Bernard Shaw and Bob Dylan?
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January 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
POP QUIZ: What is the connection between George Bernard Shaw and Bob Dylan?
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BlueSky Historians - what’s the most ahistorical thing you have ever seen in a film/TV show which was meant to be historical?
(For me it has to be the use of Zadok the Priest playing during the Papal coronation of Rodrigo Borgia - Alexander VI - in The Borgias. 235 years before it was composed.)
(For me it has to be the use of Zadok the Priest playing during the Papal coronation of Rodrigo Borgia - Alexander VI - in The Borgias. 235 years before it was composed.)
January 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Keir Starmer announces a techutopian AI plan that reads like it was generated by ChatGPT. Shockingly naive & desperate capture of UK govt by corporate interests
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI
Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Keir Starmer announces a techutopian AI plan that reads like it was generated by ChatGPT. Shockingly naive & desperate capture of UK govt by corporate interests
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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When I suggested that Shamima Begum had been radicalised in articles for @bylinetimes.bsky.social and that she was our responsibility back in 2019/20 I was called a traitor and invited to go and live in Syria.
How has Nigel Farage suddenly changed his mind?
Integrity or the Trump mind virus?
How has Nigel Farage suddenly changed his mind?
Integrity or the Trump mind virus?
January 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
When I suggested that Shamima Begum had been radicalised in articles for @bylinetimes.bsky.social and that she was our responsibility back in 2019/20 I was called a traitor and invited to go and live in Syria.
How has Nigel Farage suddenly changed his mind?
Integrity or the Trump mind virus?
How has Nigel Farage suddenly changed his mind?
Integrity or the Trump mind virus?
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A guy who made a website to rate the attractiveness of girls who would never even consider fucking him in a million years has an enormous, almost singular influence on everything your parents believe and how they vote
January 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
A guy who made a website to rate the attractiveness of girls who would never even consider fucking him in a million years has an enormous, almost singular influence on everything your parents believe and how they vote
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Well, that's just bang out of order.
January 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Well, that's just bang out of order.
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“I worry that it’s going to be all too easy — or maybe we’re already starting — to fall back into the neglect cycle and move on without absorbing the lessons of what we all experienced.” < there is no maybe about it, sadly bigthink.com/health/the-d...
The dangers of keeping epidemiology the “hidden science”
Caitlin Rivers wants to tell the story of epidemiology and the public health heroes who keep the world safe and healthy.
bigthink.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
“I worry that it’s going to be all too easy — or maybe we’re already starting — to fall back into the neglect cycle and move on without absorbing the lessons of what we all experienced.” < there is no maybe about it, sadly bigthink.com/health/the-d...
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Told my mum I need to go over to hers at some point in the next few days to use her stand mixer, she said I’m not allowed after I posted this video to facebook
January 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Told my mum I need to go over to hers at some point in the next few days to use her stand mixer, she said I’m not allowed after I posted this video to facebook
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In 1977, Vincent Price starred in a one-man-show where he played openly gay Oscar Wilde; it was condemned by Anita Bryant. When asked about her condemnation, Price replied that Wilde had already written a play about Anita: “A Woman of No Importance”
January 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
In 1977, Vincent Price starred in a one-man-show where he played openly gay Oscar Wilde; it was condemned by Anita Bryant. When asked about her condemnation, Price replied that Wilde had already written a play about Anita: “A Woman of No Importance”
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A thrilling cocktail of martial arts 🥋 and ⚰️ vampirism from #HammerFilms
🧛 THE LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES (1974) 11:25pm #PeterCushing #RobinStewart #JulieEge #DavidChiang horror #TPTVsubtiles
🧛 THE LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES (1974) 11:25pm #PeterCushing #RobinStewart #JulieEge #DavidChiang horror #TPTVsubtiles
January 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A thrilling cocktail of martial arts 🥋 and ⚰️ vampirism from #HammerFilms
🧛 THE LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES (1974) 11:25pm #PeterCushing #RobinStewart #JulieEge #DavidChiang horror #TPTVsubtiles
🧛 THE LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES (1974) 11:25pm #PeterCushing #RobinStewart #JulieEge #DavidChiang horror #TPTVsubtiles
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Excuse me everyone, there's no use fighting it, just hand everything over to us, it's been foretold!
Happy new year ladies! ;)
The Miami News, 1935:
www.newspapers.com/article/the-...
Happy new year ladies! ;)
The Miami News, 1935:
www.newspapers.com/article/the-...
January 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Excuse me everyone, there's no use fighting it, just hand everything over to us, it's been foretold!
Happy new year ladies! ;)
The Miami News, 1935:
www.newspapers.com/article/the-...
Happy new year ladies! ;)
The Miami News, 1935:
www.newspapers.com/article/the-...
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Great to see our Health trends in England tool being used for screenshots like this. Exactly as we hoped it would be.
With the rise in alcohol liver disease deaths over the past two decades it is imperative for all four nations to have a multi-faceted and wide reaching strategy aimed at reducing alcohol harm.
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January 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Great to see our Health trends in England tool being used for screenshots like this. Exactly as we hoped it would be.
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Just seen that Eric Morecambe's carpet cleaner has gone for £200. I wouldn't have it for free. What's the fucking point? Are you going to use it or is it going to be on a pedestal in the living room? Telling guests "I own Eric Morecambe's Bex Bissell. It's my pension."
January 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Just seen that Eric Morecambe's carpet cleaner has gone for £200. I wouldn't have it for free. What's the fucking point? Are you going to use it or is it going to be on a pedestal in the living room? Telling guests "I own Eric Morecambe's Bex Bissell. It's my pension."
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Where presumably they had been packaged up as a new range called 'Böm', requiring three people, four allen keys, and a special screwdriver to assemble.
The Polish defense minister dismissed a high-ranking general who is allegedly responsible for losing anti-tank mines eventually found in an IKEA warehouse.
Polish general fired after missing anti-tank mines were found in IKEA
The mishap only came to light when the military was called to ask when they would collect their mines from an IKEA warehouse.
www.politico.eu
January 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Where presumably they had been packaged up as a new range called 'Böm', requiring three people, four allen keys, and a special screwdriver to assemble.
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Staggeringly misleading & irresponsible article by Express online. Neither I nor my site've ever said that. It's a perversion of our "earn under £35k & it's worth checking a benefits calc to see if you're missing out on owt" into dangerous, trite clickbait.
January 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Staggeringly misleading & irresponsible article by Express online. Neither I nor my site've ever said that. It's a perversion of our "earn under £35k & it's worth checking a benefits calc to see if you're missing out on owt" into dangerous, trite clickbait.
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"Crash, crash, crash at the economy. I looked out, you know who it was? Bloody Liz Truss!"
January 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"Crash, crash, crash at the economy. I looked out, you know who it was? Bloody Liz Truss!"
Saw Ken Russell's The Devils for the first time last night, on the big screen. Derek Jarman's sets are fantastic - all the white tiling, based on the "rape in a public toilet" aesthetic. Very similar to the current trend for clinical kitchens that resemble post mortem rooms. I loved it.
January 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Saw Ken Russell's The Devils for the first time last night, on the big screen. Derek Jarman's sets are fantastic - all the white tiling, based on the "rape in a public toilet" aesthetic. Very similar to the current trend for clinical kitchens that resemble post mortem rooms. I loved it.
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More highlights from the archives with Samira Ahmed and Steve Berry on Looks Unfamiliar plus a look at a swinging sixties BBC soap opera, a book about the evolution of psychedelia and the strange story of fifties throwback pop star Jimmy Ray...
timworthington.org/2024/07/26/t...
timworthington.org/2024/07/26/t...
Through The Square Window: Mary Quant, Metal Mickey And The Newcomers
More early Saturday Morning-styled mayhem from the archives including Samira Ahmed and Steve Berry on Looks Unfamiliar and some thoughts on mid-sixties BBC soap opera The Newcomers, a book looking …
timworthington.org
January 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
More highlights from the archives with Samira Ahmed and Steve Berry on Looks Unfamiliar plus a look at a swinging sixties BBC soap opera, a book about the evolution of psychedelia and the strange story of fifties throwback pop star Jimmy Ray...
timworthington.org/2024/07/26/t...
timworthington.org/2024/07/26/t...
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This is the man Kemi Badenoch's spokesman again insisted this week that she remains a huge "fan" of
The radicalised billionaire Elon Musk is Just Amplifying Questions
[The question is whether successive UK governments have pursued a treasonable agenda of great replacement + White Genocide and so are responsible for an inevitable coming inter-ethnic civil war]
[The question is whether successive UK governments have pursued a treasonable agenda of great replacement + White Genocide and so are responsible for an inevitable coming inter-ethnic civil war]
January 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is the man Kemi Badenoch's spokesman again insisted this week that she remains a huge "fan" of
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The biggest question raised here must be: who on earth is choosing to drive in London, the city with by far the best public transport system in Britain?
me in the Guardian on the most congested city in Europe, apparently
me in the Guardian on the most congested city in Europe, apparently
London has a congestion charge – and traffic in gridlock. We need other ways to end the obsession with cars | Jonn Elledge
The charge was seen as draconian, but new thinking is now essential. Look to the cities trying a range of bold ideas, says author Jonn Elledge
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The biggest question raised here must be: who on earth is choosing to drive in London, the city with by far the best public transport system in Britain?
me in the Guardian on the most congested city in Europe, apparently
me in the Guardian on the most congested city in Europe, apparently