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Jessica Elgot

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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM

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Derbyshire Record Office

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For #Railway200, here is a photograph of the Midland Railway Station at Chesterfield in about 1910. Looks like even ghosts wanted to travel by train!

#history #trains #ghost #1910s #photograph

Sepia coloured photograph showing the platforms at the railway station, which are covered by a iron canopies. On the platforms you can see a porter, a group of boys, a woman, a trolley, posters and a newsagent. One figure, who must have moved too much while the image was taken, is very hazy, with a spectral appearance.
Image courtesy of www.picturethepast.org.uk.

September 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM

swell90.bsky.social

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New iOS icons are a bit fugly… #ios26

September 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM

swell90.bsky.social

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Souter Lighthouse, NE England. #travel #travelphotography #nationaltrust

March 31, 2025 at 7:07 AM

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Private Eye Magazine

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“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion”

From the new Private Eye, out now.

February 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM

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Chris Ponting

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If post war architecture and planning is your bag, I can heartily recommend this 1979 documentary on New Towns. Harlow, Peterlee, Runcorn and Milton Keynes are all there in their 1970’s glory. A real gem.
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www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Where We Live Now - 3. New Town, Home Town

First transmitted in 1979, writer Colin Ward sets out to discover the truth about Britain's New Towns.

www.bbc.co.uk

January 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM

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Ian Betteridge

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This, from Lewis Goodall, is bang on the mark.

On the same day, The Observer reported that ministers had decided they didn’t want to face the accusation from Farage that the “establishment” was trying to rig things against him. All of these arguments are classic examples of Labour bedwetting.
Do we think for a moment, that if an equivalent foreign backer, say Bill Gates, was proposing a game-changing donation to Labour, that the Conservatives or Reform would not change the rules at pace? This is how populists win. They don’t observe norms and rules, while established players do, indeed they fret about them. Moreover, Farage will always claim that the establishment is trying to rig things against him – he’s made a career out of it.

December 28, 2024 at 11:21 AM

swell90.bsky.social

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He has earned the right to boast his titles, but which other manager of a club with their wealth and resources would allow their manager to go 7 games without a win? #LIVMCI #premierleague

The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · Dec 1

Pep Guardiola reminds the Anfield crowd how many Premier League titles he has won after the Liverpool fans taunt the Manchester City manager with chants of, 'you're getting sacked in the morning.'