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MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 13h

Looks like the Tories have lost the mime-artist vote..

MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 13h

DOCTOR WHO
THE PHILIP MORRIS INTERVIEW
Live At 8pm Tonight
youtube.com/live/hFDbP34...

Brendan will ask Philip about the missing episodes speculation, season 2, RTD's legacy, the attitude of the BBC to Dr Who.
This is Box Office. Get your seats early!

DOCTOR WHO - PHILIP MORRIS LIVE - MISSING EPISODES? RTD? CURRENT STATE OF DR WHO? SEASON 2?

YouTube video by The Sense Sphere - The Doctor Who Podcast

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MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 1d

Book Review: "That Librarian-The Fight Against Book Banning in America " by Amanda Jones thebookselfblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/b...

Book Review: That Librarian-The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” -Walter Cronkite – American journalist and television news broadcaster (1916-2009) I first beca…

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MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 1d

16th October, 6pm, at Home Manchester, a screening of the Iron ladies documentary on women in the Miners' Strike. homemcr.org/whats-on/iro...

Iron Ladies (12A) + discussion — Meet the iron-willed women who maintained the 1984/85 Miners' Strike.

Meet the iron-willed women who maintained the 1984/85 Miners' Strike.

homemcr.org

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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 2d

My friend Tricia Romano wrote an acclaimed oral history about the Village Voice — The Freaks Came Out to Write — and now she's teaching a class on the art of writing an oral history. Take it, wannabe oral historians! More info here:

www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...

Craft Seminar: The Art of Narrative Oral History with Tricia Romano — The Shipman Agency

2 Sessions: Saturday + Sunday, October 18 + 19 1:00-3:00pm ET Tricia Romano Tricia Romano is the author of the acclaimed oral history, The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of t...

www.theshipmanagency.com

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 2d

The Men Who Stand and Wait, Wigan, 1939, photo by Kurt Hutton for Picture Post. They are outside a labour exchange.

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MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 1d

Petition: Inquiry into sexual violence in NHS hospitals
I want the Government to have an inquiry into sexual violence being reported in NHS hospitals, to come up with a plan to reduce incidents. Only 17,000 signatures so far, 100,000 needed,. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Inquiry into sexual violence in NHS hospitals

I want the Government to have an inquiry into sexual violence being reported in NHS hospitals, to come up with a plan to reduce incidents.

petition.parliament.uk

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MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 2d

The National Council for Civil Liberties (for whom future Labour Party MPs Harriet Harman and Patricia Hewitt worked) opposed the Prevention Of Terrorism Act issuing briefings eg www.leftarchive.ie/workspace/do... It seems this would now be considered supporting terrorism by Labour

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 3d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 31% (-1)
LAB: 21% (-1)
CON: 19% (+1)
LDM: 13% (+1)
GRN: 9% (+2)

Via JLPartnersPolls, 26 Sep - 3 Oct.
Changes w/ 19 Aug - 1 Sep.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 2d

VISION ON SOUND

with Michael Herbert
on DOCTOR WHO AND THE SILURIANS Sunday Oct 12th 2025, 7:00pm (UK time)

@FabRadioInt
Channel 1 fabradiointernational.com Podcast version also available after 7:00pm via podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vis... VoS Show 256 - Yr 6, Ep 02

Fab Radio International – Embrace The Alternative

fabradiointernational.com

MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 4d

Iron Ladies,a feature documentary about women and the Miners’ Strike, comes to Manchester later this month on

📆 16th Oct

🎙️Q&A with Lorraine Stansbie (Barnsley Women Against Pit Closures) & Bernadette Hyland (@lippysocialist)

Info & tickets: homemcr.org/whats-on/iron-

What's On | HOME

homemcr.org

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MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 5d

Election Maps UK
@ElectionMapsUK
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Aggregate Result of the 115 Council By-Elections (for 118 Seats) since the 2025 Local Elections:

RFM: 44 (+38)
LDM: 29 (+9)
CON: 13 (-12)
LAB: 12 (-29)
GRN: 11 (+3)
Ind: 5 (-4)
Local: 2 (-4)
SNP: 1 (-1)
PLC: 1 (=)

MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 6d

Secret filming by Panorama shows Metropolitan Police officers making sexualised comments to colleagues, revelling in the use of force, and sharing racist views about immigrants and Muslims. Watch on BBC One at 9pm, or on iPlayer now
bbc.in/46OGCNQ

Panorama - Undercover in the Police

Secret filming by Panorama reveals evidence of racism, misogyny and officers revelling in the use of force at one of London’s busiest police stations, Charing Cross.

bbc.in

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MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 6d

Labour fights Reform by adopting their policies

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 6d

Labour has a chance now to turn a corner and win support from people who want it to succeed. Or it can continue with this type of vicious populist filth and alienate everyone. It's your call guys.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 6d

Starting this Sunday I will be teaching an online course "Radical Women ; 1918 to 1978" including equality campaigns, the General Strike, women marching v unemployment, anti-fascism, WW2 and Women's Liberation. redflagwalks.wordpress.com

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MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 9d

Mary Quaile Club event in Manchester on 18 October, 2pm. Socialist feminist Sheila Rowbotham will speak about her memoir of the 1980s "Reasons to Rebel": Rose Hunter will speak about the North Staffs Miners' Wives Action Group. Free. More details maryquaileclub.wordpress.com

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MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 12d

Just published by the Mary Quaile Club : "All help possible will be given"- The complete Minutes of the Manchester and Salford Women's Trades Union Council, 1895 - 1919... an invaluable resource on the history of women and trade unions www.lulu.com/shop/bernade...

"All help possible will be given"

The Manchester and Salford Women’s Trades Union Council was established in 1895 to organise women into trade unions, and lasted until 1919. The Council employed organisers such as Sarah Dickenson, Eva...

www.lulu.com

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MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 12d

The Government is planning to roll out mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. We need to stop it becoming a reality. sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re... via @38degrees

Reject plans for a mandatory BritCard (digital ID)

Sir Keir Starmer is considering a mandatory digital ID scheme called “BritCard” that would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives. Mandatory digital IDs give the state enor...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 13d

Mary Quaile Club event: Sat 18th October, 2pm, in Manchester. Socialist feminist Sheila Rowbotham will discuss her memoir of the 1980s " Reason to Rebel", also speaking Rose Hunter from North Staff Miners' Wives Action Group. Advance booking advised maryquaileclub.wordpress.com

Mary Quaile Club

History, activism and discussion in the Greater Manchester area

maryquaileclub.wordpress.com

MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 13d

Starting on 5 October I will be teaching an 8 week online course via Zoom on "Radical Women, 1918-1978" including topics such as the General Strike, anti-fascism, NUWM, Spanish Civil War, equal pay and Women's Liberation. Full details here: redflagwalks.wordpress.com

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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 15d

As I was saying…

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 14d

Mary Quaile Club event: Sat 18th October, 2pm, in Manchester. Socialist feminist Sheila Rowbotham will discuss her memoir of the 1980s " Reason to Rebel", Rose Hunter from North Staff Miners' Wives Action Group will also speak. Advance booking advised maryquaileclub.wordpress.com

Mary Quaile Club

History, activism and discussion in the Greater Manchester area

maryquaileclub.wordpress.com

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MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 15d

Queen's Park (Brighton and Hove) by-election result:

GRN: 48.4% (+24.4)
LAB: 31.1% (-19.9)
REF: 10.1% (+10.1)
LDEM: 4.2% (-0.4)
CON: 3.5% (-3.9)
IND: 2.7% (+2.7)

No IndGrp (-13.1) as prev.
Green Gain from Labour.

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MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 15d

In my biography of the television scriptwriter Malcolm "Mac" Hulke "Things are not always what they seem" I discuss his work for the ATV series Armchair Theatre www.lulu.com/shop/michael...

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